Good morning and welcome to today's New York City Council vote from the Committee on Environmental Protection and Waterfronts.

At this point, I'd like to remind everyone to silence your electronic devices.

And at no point is anyone to approach the dais.

Chair, we are ready to begin.

I'm just you want me to do real work.

Okay.

We're doing work.

Good morning.

All right.

My name is Lincoln Wrestler, and I am inadequately filling in for our distinguished chair, Jim Gennaro, uh, who is unable to be here today.

Uh we are voting uh at the Committee on Environmental Protection and Waterfronts on proposed introduction 804A, sponsored by my colleague, uh Councilmember Phil Wong.

In relation to the maximum allowable illuminance of residential outdoor lighting fixtures on one and two family homes.

This committee first heard the bill on April 6th of this year, and I really want to commend Councilmember Wong for working so thoughtfully with colleagues to uh advance this final legislation.

Proposed intro 804A would set an illuminance limit of one foot candle for outdoor lighting fixtures on one and two family homes in low density residential areas.

For context, one foot candle is roughly the amount of light that shines into your window from a typical New York City streetlight.

Certain lights, including lights for construction safety and decorative light displays, like Diker Heights, would be exempt.

I think we all would agree that shining a floodlight into your neighbor's home is not very neighborly.

With that, I will pass it along to my colleague, Councilmember Wong, for some remarks on his legislation.

Okay, um, thank you, uh Chair Wrestler.

Uh first I want to thank Chair Gennaro for for your support on this bill.

Intro 804 is a little bill that will cause a big improvement for the quality of life for millions of New Yorkers, and this pertains to uh private one or two family homes.

Um previously there were a lot of discussions on uh on some fixes that uh uh to the original bill.

So uh they're now the fixes now been implemented and it provides clarity on allowable lumens uh to be measured at the nearest neighbor's window, which clearly limits this regulation to low density residential districts and allows a cure, period.

So I thank you everyone uh and the members of this committee for uh moving this bill, and I hope uh this will get passed out of this committee.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Wong of Ridgewood.

Um I would like to thank the committee staff, particularly legislative councils, Natasha Bynam, Sierra Townsend, Senior Policy Analyst Ricky Chala, Financial Analyst Tanveer Singh, for their hard work on this legislation.

And I'd also like to recognize my colleagues who are with us today, our whip, Camilla Hanks of the North Shore, uh Justin Sanchez, Councilmember from the Bronx.

Uh who else do we have here?

We have Harvey Epstein of the Lower East Side.

Uh, and we have Councilmember Jim Jennero, our chair online.

With that, I think I will invite the clerk to call a roll.

Hi, Ben Jacobs, committee clerk.

Uh roll call vote on intro 8048.

Uh acting chair wrestler.

Aye.

Chair Gennaro.

Mr.

Chair, I'd wish to uh speak for a moment on uh on the bill.

Chair, you don't need my permission.

Uh okay.

Well, uh Mr.

Um Mr.

Chair, I'd like to thank you for your very gracious uh remarks at the outset of the hearing.

Um yeah, I I really do appreciate that.

Uh and um uh councilmember Wong, you described this as a little bill.

I think it's big bill.

That's gonna have a big difference, as you say.

Uh and like the chair said, you worked very hard and you know uh to make sure uh all the wrinkles were uh straightened out.

I was at the Dem conference when this was um talked about, and it was you know, a lot of people uh had some issues, but uh you worked very assiduously to make sure that everybody's in a good place and um that is the mark of a real good legislator.

So uh uh good for you.

I'd like to thank my colleagues as well.

I want to uh reiterate what the uh uh chair said um regarding the staff.

I'd like to thank Sierra and Natasha and Ricky and Tanveer.

Uh and with that I enthusiastically vote yes.

Uh Councilmember Hanks.

I vote aye.

Councilmember Epstein.

Aye.

Councilmember Sanchez.

Aye.