Give recommendations on long term planning
- Date Due
- 01/01/2023
- Responsible Entity
- Advisory Board
- Action
- Give recommendations on long term planning
- Summary
- The Advisory Board must give advice and recommendations to the DOB commissioner and to the mayor’s office of long term planning and sustainability relating to effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings.
- Status
- Executed: The report is available here.
- Statute
- LL97 § 5 adds new Administrative Code Tit. 28. Ch. 3 § 28-320.2(1)
Statutory Language:
LL97 § 5: "§ 28-320.2 Advisory board. There shall be an advisory board convened, by the office of building energy and emissions performance upon the effective date of this article, in January of 2029 and in January of 2039, to provide advice and recommendations to the commissioner and to the mayor’s office of long term planning and sustainability relating to effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. Such recommendations shall include, but not be limited to:
1. A report to be delivered to the mayor and 1. A report and recommendations to be delivered to the mayor and the speaker of the city council no later than January 1, 2023 for additional or improved approaches to assessing building energy performance.
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.1. An approach for buildings to submit energy use or greenhouse gas emissions and other information for the purpose of assessing energy performance of covered buildings;
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.2. A methodology that includes the metric of measure, adjustments to the metric, the approach to comparing the output to a benchmark, alternative compliance paths, credit for beneficial electrification and distributed energy resources, and an approach for a trading mechanism as described in section 28-320.11;
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.3. Recommendations for addressing tenant-controlled energy usage;
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.4. Recommendations for amendments to the audit required under section 28-308.2 of the administrative code, including consideration of whether such audit should be replaced by a capital plan;
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.5 Recommendations for reducing building emissions from rent regulated accommodations;
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.6 Recommendations for allowing additional time to comply with the emissions limits for buildings converting to a new occupancy group or use with lower emissions limits or some other change in status that would affect applicability of the provisions of this article;
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.7 An evaluation of the extent to which the mayor’s 80x50 energy infrastructure pathways study is incorporated and addressed within the recommendations made pursuant to items 1.1 through 1.6 of this section; and
- Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
- 1.8 A reference guide to delineate the responsibilities of the building designer and owners to comply with emissions limits."