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A new law promotes solar panels and green roofs atop city buildings. Getty SOLAR
SHINGLES
New laws require all new roofs to
contain solar panels or green space
BY ROSE ADAMS
Two laws requiring new property
owners to build solar panels or green
spaces on their roofs went into effect
on Nov. 15 — marking a major step towards
Brooklyn’s environmental sustainability,
according to local green
thumbs.
“It’s important and very valuable,”
said environmental activist Pete Sikora
from the New York Community for
Change, a local nonprofi t. “It’s a critical
step for New York City to meet the
Green New Deal goals.”
The legislation — which Councilman
Rafael Espinal (D-Bedford Stuyvesant)
fi rst introduced to the City Council
in July of 2018 — requires developers
to install either solar panels, greenery,
or a combination of the two on all new
roofs.
The mandate exempts very slanted
roofs and roofs that already contain
structures, such as water towers, green
houses and other equipment, according
to a representative from the Mayor’s Offi
ce of Sustainability. Low-rise residential
buildings with less than 100 square
feet of available space and other types
of buildings with less than 200 square
feet will also be exempt, and the sustainable
measures won’t take the place
of recreational spaces that are integral
to the building’s use, such as playgrounds
on school roofs or terraces on
apartment buildings.
The laws also apply to property owners
seeking to renovate their roofs, including
the owners of historic buildings
— who will have to take their
green roof plans to the Landmarks
Preservation Commission before obtaining
a construction permit from the
Department of Buildings.
Environmental offi cials say that
property owners will be in charge of
funding and maintaining solar panels
— which is no cheap task. The average
solar panel array costs about $30,000,
but since the panels power the building,
the electricity generator eventually
pays for itself, according to the executive
of a solar panel company.
“Any time you’re not borrowing
power from Con Ed, you’re saving
money,” said TR Ludwig, the CEO of
Brooklyn Solarworks, who said that it
usually takes homeowners four to eight
years to pay off the price of the panels
before they have free energy.
Building owners will also receive signifi
cant tax incentives for the solar panels,
getting back 20% of the equipment
costs in the form of a property tax abatement,
and receiving a $5,000 tax credit,
among other pluses, Ludwig said.
Greenery, which helps reduce fl ooding
and provides better building insulation,
is signifi cantly cheaper, costing between
$10 and $40 to install per square
foot, the New York Times reported. The
gardens require some maintenance, like
periodic weeding, although they don’t
need to be watered frequently.
According to Sikora, the legislation is
a necessary step in shrinking the city’s
carbon footprint and meeting the goals
of the Green New Deal, which calls for
100-percent emissions-free electricity
by 2040. Still, he argues, putting green
roofs on new buildings is not enough.
“Roughly 90-percent of square footage
that’s going to be up in 2050 is already
built,” he said. “New York City
should require green roofs on existing
buildings.”
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