From the Daily News:Neighborhoods will now get 72 hours’ notice when city construction projects close down their streets, cut off electricity and water or remove parking spaces.
Councilman Jimmy Vacca (D-Bronx) introduced a bill last month to force the change — but after meeting with the Department of Design and Construction commissioner Thursday, the agency agreed to make the change immediately.
Notices will go out by email to residents, businesses and local pols, and be followed by an in-person notice.
5 comments:
Great this will just slow down these projects even more.
Anon 1
If something is to start thursday and they let you know with details on Monday, how is that slowing things down?
How many people will the city have to hire to take care of these notifications? How many millions of dollars is this bill going to cost taxpayers?
Anon No. 1:
If it improves conditions in a neighborhood, good.
Anon 2
Because the project they just found out about and could have started on Wednesday now can't start until the following Monday because they did not notify anyone and union guys don't work weekends. Not to mention the extra employees costing millions of dollars we have to hire to notify everyone.
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