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Council Member Restler introduces legislation on citywide bathroom network
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Council Member Lincoln Restler opens the Committee on Governmental Operations, State and Federal Legislation meeting and introduces Intro 694-A, sponsored by Council Member Sandy Nurse. The bill requires the city to create a strategic plan for a citywide bathroom network and an online map of public bathrooms. Restler emphasizes the importance of bathroom access as a quality of life issue for all New Yorkers.
- Restler frames bathroom access as an accessibility, disability justice, and quality of life issue
- He mentions a previous initiative in Downtown Brooklyn to map public bathrooms
- The legislation is presented as a step in the right direction to address the need for public bathrooms
Lincoln Restler
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Lincoln Ressler.
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I chair the Committee on Governmental Operations, State and Federal Legislation.
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I'd like to start off by thanking my colleagues for joining us today and everyone who's here, Council Member Schulman, Council Member Carr, Council Member Palladino, Council Member Gutierrez, Council Member Brewer, Council Member Gennaro.
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We greatly appreciate you all being here.
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Do we have anyone on Zoom?
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No.
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Great.
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We'll be, voting on intro six ninety four a sponsored by council member Sandy Nurse.
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This bill will require the city to create a strategic plan for a citywide bathroom network including a comprehensive online map of all public bathrooms in the city.
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Bathroom access, I think we would all agree, is critically important as an accessibility issue, a disability justice issue, a quality of life issue for every single New Yorker, for folks with a small bladder, for folks who need a changing table, and for everybody in between.
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In moms, everybody, all of us.
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Pregnant, weak bladders, whatever, you know, all of us.
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It's I I think it's a unifying issue that we all gotta pee.
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Bathroom access is is something that when we don't have it, we see the ramifications and the quality of life around our neighborhood.
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We see people peeing and pooping on our streets.
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Response to that, in response to that in Downtown Brooklyn, I helped create a map of all of the public bathrooms in the neighborhood and we started putting them up in the Link NYC kiosks as a way to try to get the word out about where the bathrooms are.
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But that's not enough and we should be doing so much more and this legislation is very much a step in the right direction.
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So we do not have council member nurse here with us today, unless anyone else wants to give, no.
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I think we're just gonna vote.