New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Buildings Commissioner Jimmy Oddo recently unveiled the city’s “Get Sheds Down” initiative, which provides a plan to overhaul current rules governing the design, use and permitting for sheds and scaffolding systems on public sidewalks.

This plan could impact the 9,000 active, permitted construction sheds that occupy approximately two million linear feet of the city’s sidewalk space (the equivalent of nearly 400 miles), especially those lingering green eyesores.

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