Smart Growth Bill Passes State Assembly, Senate Vote Expected
The State Assembly passed Sam Hoyt's smart growth bill today by a vote of 95-2, one day after the bill sailed through three key committees. The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation tomorrow, setting up the possibility of a rare Albany victory for sustainable planning.
By
Noah Kazis
4:59 PM EDT on June 16, 2010
The State Assembly passed Sam Hoyt’s smart growth bill today by a vote of 95-2, one day after the bill sailed through three key committees. The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation tomorrow, setting up the possibility of a rare Albany victory for sustainable planning.
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.
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