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Kathy Hochul: “You have a 50 year old law in the state of New York known as…”

Featuring: Kathy Hochul, Democratic | Governor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 30:13

But you'll hear from Jeff, the delays, the bureaucratic delays, after all the local approvals, it's zoned properly. You check on, you have the whole checklist of everything that has to be done to get approved. And then You have a 50 year old law in the state of New York known as seeker, which at the time was necessary. But since 1975, many, many other laws have been supervening or intervening that now make that unnecessary in many of these housing projects. And so that's what I'm talking about. (30:13–30:20)

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Asserts that the SEQR law in New York is 50 years old and was necessary at the time of its enactment.

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