What's happening
This bill authorizes the transfer of certain state land in New Rochelle to the city for municipal facilities and affordable housing.
Why it matters
Addresses local needs for municipal infrastructure and affordable housing. By allowing New Rochelle to use the land specifically for municipal facilities and affordable housing, the bill directly supports the city’s efforts to provide essential services and expand housing options for lower-income residents.
Protects public interest through reversion clause. The land reverts to state ownership if New Rochelle ever stops using it for the stated purposes, ensuring long-term public benefit and preventing privatization or other unintended uses.
Enables efficient use of surplus state land. The property is declared unnecessary for transportation purposes, so this transfer prevents underutilized state land from remaining idle and allows it to be repurposed for community benefit.
Requires local initiative and planning. The city must apply for the transfer within a year and may need to provide a precise land survey, promoting careful local planning and accountability before the conveyance occurs.
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Transfer State Land to New Rochelle
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Sponsors
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History
- Substituted by S6228A
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.465
- Rules report cal.465
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 7846a
- Amend and recommit to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Transfer State Land to City
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Andrea Stewart-Cousins
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7846--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain state land to the city of New Rochelle
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act but notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of general services is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the city of New Rochelle, in consideration of one dollar and upon such other consideration as the commissioner may deem proper, the state land located at Cedar Street Southbound Extension, New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester, declared to be not necessary for traffic flow by the department of transportation.
§ 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred and conveyed are as follows:
ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the City of New Rochelle, County of Westchester and State of New York, known and designated Cedar Street Southbound Extension which said easterly boundary of said portion of Cedar Street is shown on a certain map entitled, "Map of Parcels Nos. 10, 10A and 12 Cedar Street Redevelopment Project, situated in the City of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York", prepared by Gabriel E. Senor, Consulting Engineer and Surveyor, dated June 7, 1967 and filed in the Westchester County Clerk's Office, Division of Land Records on August 8, 1968 as Map No. 16228 and being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the southerly side of Huguenot Street at the easterly end of a curve connecting the easterly side of Cedar Street Southbound Extension with the southerly side of Huguenot Street which
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curve has a radius of 23 feet, a central angle of 97 degrees 48' 39" and a distance of 39.26 feet (survey) 39.13 feet (map);
RUNNING THENCE southwesterly along said easterly boundary of Cedar Street Southbound extension the following courses and distances;
On a curve to the left having a radius of 23 feet, a radial bearing of South 02 degrees 47' 27" West, a central angle of 97 degrees 48' 39" and a distance of 39.26 feet;
RUNNING THENCE on a curve to the right having a radius of 278.00 feet, a central angle of 27 degrees 50' 35" and a distance of 135.10 feet;
RUNNING THENCE South 22 degrees 49' 22.44" West 111.229 feet;
RUNNING THENCE South 71 degrees 35' 12" East 49.70 feet;
RUNNING THENCE South 53 degrees 56' 58" West 160.00 feet; to a point on the southerly end of Cedar Street Southbound Extension as shown on certain map entitled, "Map of Parcel 8 and 9 Cedar Street Redevelopment Project, situated in the City of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, Project NY R57, prepared by Charles E Ward, Consulting Engineer and Surveyor, dated June 7, 1967 and filed in the Westchester County Clerk's Office, Division of Land Records on August 19, 1965 as Map No. 14556 and being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
RUNNING THENCE North 34 degrees 58' 52" West 25.06 feet;
RUNNING THENCE North 35 degrees 55' 52" West 25.31 feet; to a point on the westerly boundary of Cedar Street Southbound Extension, thence proceed the following courses and distances;
North 22 degrees 49' 22.44" East 217.89 feet;
RUNNING THENCE on a curve to the left having a radius of 202.00 feet, a central angle of 35 degrees 51' 47.44" and a distance of 126.44 feet;
RUNNING THENCE on a curve to the left having a radius of 10.00 feet, a central angle of 77 degrees 58' 58" and a distance of 13.61 feet;
RUNNING THENCE South 87 degrees 59' 07" East 114.17 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING
§ 3. The description in section two of this act of the land to be conveyed is not intended to be a legal description but is intended to identify the parcel to be conveyed. As a condition of the purchase, the city of New Rochelle may submit to the commissioner of general services, for his or her approval, an accurate survey and description of the lands to be conveyed, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
§ 4. The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the aforesaid land unless application in a form acceptable to the office of general services is made to the office of general services by the city of New Rochelle which application must be made within one year after the effective date of this act.
§ 5. Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be used for the purposes of the city of New Rochelle to utilize the subject property exclusively for the construction of municipal facilities and to satisfy the affordable housing needs of residents of the city of New Rochelle, and upon termination of such use, title to the lands so transferred shall revert to the state of New York.
§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
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