Mayor Alex A. Knopp of Norwalk said the city drafted the ordinance after he received complaints from South Norwalk merchants and their customers.
A 2009 report by the city drafted in response to Hurricane Katrina recommended that the authority elevate certain critical pieces of equipment stored in its basements, renovations that were never done.
In just the last week, some business leaders in the city drafted a letter to Gov. George E. Pataki urging him to consider imposing a commuter tax, the proposal at the heart of Mr. Bloomberg's budget plan.
But the remediation plan the city drafted earlier this year sets the goal at 315 ppm, nearly four times the state limit.
In 1987, the city drafted a new master plan, also known as the Growth Management Guide 2000, which would transform downtown Flagstaff from a shopping and trade center into a regional center for finance, office use, and government.
John Taylor, the president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a network of community organizations that is helping officials in several cities draft "responsible banking" laws, said the measures allowed the cities to push banks to offer more services in poor neighborhoods.
So the city began drafting a new measure, based on research done a decade ago by the National Academy of Sciences.
It was cited last fall by federal civil rights officials for failing to provide foreign language interpreters, and the city is drafting a corrective plan.
All hospitals have been told, she said, to plan for setting aside a SARS ward, and the city is drafting detailed SARS guidelines for hospitals.
Walter L. McCaffrey, a City Council member from Queens who worked with the city in drafting the law, said the law halted the proliferation of sex-related businesses in residential areas, and even closed a few.
