We present the local HII region metallicity near the site of the recently discovered multiply lensed supernova (SN; SN Refsdal) at redshift 1.49. SN Refsdal is located at the outer spiral arm ($sim$7 kpc) of the lensed host galaxy, which we have previously reported to exhibit a steep negative galactocentric metallicity gradient. Based on our updated near-infrared integral field spectroscopic data, the gas-phase metallicity averaged in an intrinsic radius of $sim$ 550 pc surrounding an HII region $sim$ 200 pc away from the SN site is 12 + log(O/H)$_{rm PP04N2}$ $le$ 8.67. The metallicity averaged over nine HII regions at similar galactocentric distances ($sim$5-7 kpc) as SN Refsdal is constrained to be 12 + log(O/H)$_{rm PP04N2}$ $le$ 8.11. Given the fortuitous discovery of SN Refsdal in an advantageously lensed face-on spiral, this is the first observational constraint on the local metallicity environment of an SN site at redshift $z>1$.
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