Bill Text: NY A05888 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of transportation to conduct a traffic and planning study on the feasibility of transforming the Harriman campus in connection with the relocation of the Wadsworth Laboratory at Harriman; directs a report on the findings of such study to be delivered within one year of effectiveness.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05888 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05888-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5888

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT directing the department of transportation to conduct  a  traffic
          and  planning  study  on  the feasibility of transforming the Harriman
          campus in connection with the relocation of the  Wadsworth  Laboratory
          at Harriman

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. 1. The department of transportation shall conduct a traffic
     2  and planning study to determine  the  feasibility  of  transforming  the
     3  eastern  end of the Harriman campus in connection with the relocation of
     4  the Wadsworth Laboratory at Harriman that will allow  easier  access  to
     5  the  campus  from  the city of Albany, help better connect and integrate
     6  the campus within the city of Albany,  and  provide  reasonable  traffic
     7  operations  allowing  for  additional acreage for mixed-use development,
     8  green space, and multi-modal transportation. For the  purposes  of  this
     9  act, the term "Harriman campus" shall mean the W. Averell Harriman state
    10  office building campus located in Albany, New York.
    11    2.  Such  study shall examine the challenges, opportunities, cost, and
    12  environmental impact of transforming the eastern  end  of  the  Harriman
    13  campus  in connection with the relocation of the Wadsworth Laboratory at
    14  Harriman that will allow easier access to the Harriman campus  from  the
    15  city  of  Albany,  help better connect and integrate the Harriman campus
    16  within the city of Albany, and  provide  reasonable  traffic  operations
    17  allowing  for additional acreage for mixed-use development, green space,
    18  and multi-modal transportation. Further,  such  study  shall  take  into
    19  consideration  efforts  to  harness  the  full  multiplier effect of the
    20  public investment, create a diverse  capital  region  research  triangle
    21  with  the  State  University  at  Albany,  the  Albany NanoTech Complex,
    22  including the SUNY Polytechnic Institute's College of Nanoscale  Science
    23  and  Engineering,  and  the  SUNY Emerging Technology & Entrepreneurship

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  Complex (ETEC), examine parts of 27 acres currently targeted  for  Wads-
     2  worth Laboratory to provide space for private sector research & develop-
     3  ment  spin-off,  thereby  gaining  taxable  property,  and  relocate the
     4  University  at  Albany  School  of Public Health to the Harriman campus.
     5  Such study shall consider the findings of the 2007 Harriman campus link-
     6  age study completed by the capital district transportation committee and
     7  relevant findings from the Harriman Research and Technology  Development
     8  Corporation.
     9    3.  Upon completion of such study, but no later than one year from the
    10  effective date of this act, the department of transportation shall issue
    11  a report based on the findings of such study to the governor, the tempo-
    12  rary president of the senate, and the  speaker  of  the  assembly.  Such
    13  report shall include, but not be limited to:
    14    (a) the findings of such study;
    15    (b)  any  short-term  and long-term actions that can be implemented by
    16  the department of transportation, a plan of action for such  implementa-
    17  tion, and the estimated cost of such implementation plan; and
    18    (c) any recommendations to the governor and legislature.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.