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- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 59–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1575
- Referred to rules
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BILL NUMBER:S7887
Title of bill
An act to amend the highway law, in relation to trans- ferring certain land to the city of New York department of parks and recreation and to the state department of environmental conservation and designating such lands as parklands and open space
Purpose
To transfer certain lands to the City of New York and the Department of Environmental Conservation to be used as parklands and open space.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends section 349-f of the highway law, as amended by chap- ter 558 of the laws of 2010.
Sections two and three requires certain traffic improvements.
Section four requires upon completion of traffic improvements outlined in sections two and three of this act, the parcels defined in such sections shall be used for park/open space purposes.
Section six sets aside a sum by the state funding equal to the cost of the traffic improvements required by sections two and three of this act upon the parcels that are de-mapped pursuant to this act, payable on the application of the City of New York.
Justification
This legislation would consolidate un-built highway rights of way into the Staten Island Greenbelt, a unique natural preserve comprised of the central hills, wetlands and woodlands of Rich- mond County upon the completion of certain traffic improvements. This measure will protect from development nearly 500 acres of land reserved for highway construction that has been deemed unnecessary by three major surface transportation studies in the last twenty years. The existing rights of way are fifty year old remnants of a different era in urban development and planning and currently there is no responsible party advocating construction of these environmentally and economically nonvi- able roadways. Therefore, they should be removed from the City Map and the land added to the adjacent protected Greenbelt, which is one of the nation's largest urban parkland preserves.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
Undetermined.
Effective date
Immediately.
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