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- Signed chap.514
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Home rule request
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.631
- Substituted for A8094
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Home rule request
- Ordered to third reading cal.1840
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- Referred to rules
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Relates to the alienation of certain parklands in the City of Yonkers, County of Westchester
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Shelley Mayer
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5851
Title of bill
An act relating to the alienation of certain parklands in the city of Yonkers, county of Westchester
Purpose or general idea of bill
To authorize the City of Yonkers to discontinue the use of certain parkland and to sell such land to Carriage House co-op.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 authorizes the City of Yonkers to discontinue certain land as parkland and alienate the land described in Section 3 of this act.
Section 2 states that the authorization contained in section one of this act shall only be effective on the condition that the city of Yonkers dedicate as parkland the land described in section four of this act for park purposes.
Section 3 provides for description of the land to be discontinued as parkland
Section 4 provides that if the land that is the subject of this act has received funding pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the discontinuance of parklands authorized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the municipality has complied with the federal requirements pertaining to the conversion of parklands.
Section 5 sets an immediate effective date.
Effects of present law which this bill would alter
None
Justification
The City of Yonkers has determined that it is in the best interest of the City to alienate a certain landlocked parcel of property situated in the vicinity of Balint Drive. The land has been identified by the City's Department of Parks and Recreation as a site which no longer has application for meaningful parkland purposes. The City of Yonkers shall dedicate new parkland and/or dedicate the difference of the fair market value for the acquisition of additional parkland and/or capital improvements to existing parkland.
Prior legislative history
New legislation.
Fiscal implications for state and local governments
None to the State, positive fiscal implication to the City of Yonkers.
Effective date
Immediately.
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