Chair Sanchez follow-up with labor panel on 485X loophole and legislative solutions
Sanchez asks for specific recommendations on the 99-unit loophole. Grunner suggests preventing subdivision of parcels to create multiple 99-unit buildings and requiring developers to build what the property can hold. Jordan notes shared foundations and driveways as red flags. Gilligan requests seats on advisory committees. Sanchez asks for written follow-up on shared infrastructure issues.
Thank you so much.
A follow-up question.
So first of all, there's the legislative task force and the mayor's construction safety working group.
I guess I forget what they're calling it, but just making sure that Local 3, Local 1 are on those is very important to make sure you're in the room to lift up these recommendations around plastic piping and modular.
On the 485X problem, do you have a recommendation on legislative change, or is it a Department of Buildings practice?
Is it about the way that site plans are reviewed?
Do you have specific recommendations about what we should be doing and looking into?
Yeah, I mean, if it's obvious that a property can easily hold.
More than 99 units, you know, even 150 units, you shouldn't be allowing them to stop at 99.
Like, they should be making more.
We need more housing.
Now, that number changes significantly in the amount of affordable housing units from 99 to 150 also.
You're looking at 20%, you know, of 99 to 25 or more percent of 150, you know.
It adds up to be a lot.
And then subdivision of.
of the parcels of lands to then build 99, you know, unit loophole buildings, I would group them all back as one and, you know, make them be a 150 plus.
If I could just expand on it for one second.
So I just think there's situations potentially where you may have a piece of property or parcel where they're breaking it up into three addresses, but yet sharing a foundation.
It's one foundation for three separate addresses, and they're sharing driveways and common walkways and whatnot.
So I think that's another potential problem.
And if I may, as far as the committees and the advisory committees are concerned, Local One asks for a seat at the table on some of those committees and give us the opportunity to
inject our expertise into the subjects that are being discussed.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
I will just ask for a follow-up, especially on those issues.
There's a common driveway.
There's shared infrastructure, things that you're seeing on the ground in addition to just hovering at the 99 units.
That would be very helpful because then we can follow up with buildings and see if we can put a stop to it with these definitions.
All right.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Next panel.
Logan Fares, Nadia Swanson, Martha Sickles, and Faiza Azam.
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