2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 6 - The New York City School Construction Authority Act › 1731 - Community Participation.

§  1731.  Community participation.   1. Prior to the commencing of new
  construction or building additions of an educational  facility,  or  the
  acquisition  of  real property or any interest therein for such purpose,
  the authority shall file a copy of the site plan of such facility in its
  offices and shall provide a copy thereof to the  city  board,  the  city
  planning  commission and the community school district education council
  and the community board of the district in which the  facility  will  be
  located.  The  authority  shall  also provide a copy of such plan to the
  council member, senator and member of assembly representing the district
  in which the facility will be located. Such plan shall include  data  on
  projected  student  population  for  the  community  school  district or
  districts and the community board or boards affected, the source of that
  data and the reason the proposed action is necessary and how  such  plan
  factors  and  accounts for student population projections. Upon request,
  any other person shall be furnished with such plan or a summary thereof.
  The authority shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the
  city a notice of the filing of such plan and  the  availability  of  the
  plan  and a summary thereof. Such plan shall include, in the case of any
  project for which the acquisition of real property or  interest  therein
  is  proposed,  the recommended site, any alternate sites considered, and
  any rationale as to why the alternate sites were not selected.
2. Within thirty days after publication of the notice  required  under
  subdivision one of this section, a public hearing with sufficient public
  notice  shall  be  held  by  each  affected  community  school  district
  education council on any or all aspects of the site  plan  and  by  each
  affected community board on aspects of the site plan which relate to the
  general  public use of the educational facility and to its impact on the
  surrounding community, including but not limited to  the  responsiveness
  of  the  site  plan  to  projected  changes in student population in the
  affected community board  or  boards  and  how  such  plan  factors  and
  accounts  for  student  population  projections.  The affected board may
  request the attendance of representatives of the authority or  the  city
  board at a hearing and the authority or the city board shall comply with
  such  requests.  If  the  proposed  project  affects  two or more school
  districts or community boards, then a hearing may be held jointly by the
  affected community school district education council and/or the affected
  community boards.  Any  affected  community  school  district  education
  council, together with any affected community board, may at their mutual
  discretion, elect to conduct a hearing jointly.
3.  Within  forty-five  days  after  publication  of such notice, each
  affected community school district education council or community  board
  shall  prepare and submit to the authority, written comments on the site
  plan. Any other organization or person shall also have  the  opportunity
  to present written comments on the plan during this period. Each comment
  received by the authority on such plan at any time prior to action being
  taken  by the authority on the plan shall be considered by the authority
  in connection with such action.
4. After due consideration of such comments, if any, the authority may
  affirm, modify or withdraw the plan.
5. Nothing herein shall preclude the authority from  holding  hearings
  on  the site plan, provided, however, that any such hearings on the site
  plan shall be conducted within the period specified in subdivision three
  of this section.