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This bill specifies that state land transferred to New Rochelle must be used for a city hall and 100% affordable housing, with new rules for reversion and purchase options.
Why it matters
Guarantees that 100% of housing units built on the transferred land must be affordable. , ensuring that all new residential development on this property serves low- and moderate-income individuals or families as defined by a state-approved plan.
Narrows the permitted municipal use of the land to specifically a city hall and affordable housing. , preventing the city from using the property for other types of municipal facilities or commercial development, thereby focusing the benefit on civic and housing needs.
Establishes a clear reversion mechanism and purchase option. If the city stops using the land for these specific purposes, ownership reverts to the state; however, the city can opt to buy out the state’s reversion interest at fair market value minus improvements, providing flexibility for future changes.
Sets a firm two-year window for the land transfer to occur. , after which the city's opportunity to acquire the land under these terms will expire, adding time pressure for the city to act if it wants to secure the property for these uses.
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Transfer Land for City Use
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- Enacting clause stricken
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- Referred to governmental operations
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Transfer Land for City Hall
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Operations · Sponsor Andrea Stewart-Cousins
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8953
IN ASSEMBLY
January 6, 2020
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2019, authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain state land to the city of New Rochelle, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
S.6228-A and A.7846-A, in relation to specifying the use for which certain state lands are to be transferred 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. Sections 5 and 6 of a chapter of the laws of 2019, authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain state land to the city of New Rochelle, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.6228-A and A.7846-A, are amended to read as follows:
§ 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, specifically a city hall building and [to satisfy the] affordable housing [needs of residents of] located in the city of New Rochelle, which solely for the purposes of this act, shall mean that one hundred percent of the rental dwelling units in the building shall, upon initial rental and upon each subsequent rental following a vacancy, be affordable to and restricted to occupancy by individuals or families in accordance with a plan developed and approved by the commissioner of the New York state division of homes and community renewal, and upon termination of such use, title to the lands so transferred shall revert to the state of New York. In lieu of such reversion, the city of New Rochelle may purchase the reverter interest in the subject property at the current fair market values less the value of any improvements thereon as determined by independent certified appraisal or appraisals.
§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that the authority of the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey the aforesaid lands and improvements pursuant to this act shall expire two years after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain state land to the city of New Rochelle, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.6228-A and A.7846-A, takes effect.
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