Tenant Protection Plans: What Local Law 154 Requires

Local Law 154 requires a Tenant Protection Plan (TPP) before certain construction or demolition work can proceed at an occupied multiple dwelling — the point of the law being that residents shouldn’t find out how the work will affect them only after it starts.

What the plan has to address

• How residents will keep safe access in and out of the building throughout the work.
• How essential services — heat, hot water, electricity, elevators — stay running, and what the fallback is if any of them has to be interrupted.
• Dust, noise and vibration controls, and how they’ll be monitored during the work.
• Fire safety and emergency egress while the work is underway.
• Who residents actually contact with a problem, and how.

How it connects to the filing

The TPP is filed alongside the construction documents for covered work at an occupied building, and DOB expects it to be a real operating plan, not boilerplate — it gets referenced if a resident complaint comes in once work starts. Adjoining-property protection (BC 3309, covering the impact of a project on the building next door) is a related but separate filing, and larger jobs often need both worked out together rather than in isolation.

If a job needs neighbor-facing paperwork — a Tenant Protection Plan, adjoining-property notices, or both — our neighbor notification generator drafts the required notices from the job’s DOB NOW filing details.