Bill Text: NY S07733 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the village of Wappinger Falls to alienate and convey parkland and acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-07-22 - SIGNED CHAP.181 [S07733 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S07733-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7733--A
I N S E N A T E
June 3, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. GIPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT authorizing and validating the alienation of certain parkland in
the village of Wappingers Falls in the county of Dutchess
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contra-
2 ry, but subject to this act, the alienation of the parkland described in
3 sections four and five of this act is hereby authorized and validated,
4 notwithstanding the absence of prior legislative approval.
5 S 2. Subject to the provisions of this act, the village of Wappingers
6 Falls, Dutchess County, acting by and through its village board, is
7 authorized to discontinue and alienate as parkland the lands described
8 in section four of this act for such purposes as are consistent with the
9 village's comprehensive plan, which may be modified in accordance with
10 the requirements of such plan.
11 S 3. The authorizations provided in section two of this act shall be
12 effective only upon the condition that the village of Wappingers Falls,
13 Dutchess County, dedicate lands of equal or greater fair market value
14 described in section five of this act as additional parklands.
15 S 4. The lands to be discontinued as parkland and alienated and
16 conveyed pursuant to section two of this act are bounded and described
17 as follows:
18 ALL that tract or parcel of land situated in the village of Wappingers
19 Falls, county of Dutchess, state of New York being bounded and described
20 as follows:
21 Beginning at a point, said point being at the northwesterly corner of
22 lands now or formerly Pettit, Liber 1274, Page 72, said point of begin-
23 ning also being on the easterly line of Market Street; running thence
24 along the easterly line of said Market Street, North 01 09'29" East
25 45.00 feet; thence running though lands of the village of Wappingers
26 Falls the following course and distances: South 88 35'40" East a
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15389-07-4
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1 distance of 97.19 feet, North 88 05'35" East a distance of 95.07 feet,
2 South 89 32'57" East a distance of 122.10 feet, South 00 27'03" West a
3 distance of 187.33 feet, and North 89 26'08" West a distance of 231.89
4 feet to a point being on the westerly line of lands now or formerly
5 Tompkins, Document No. 02-2012-5588; thence running along the easterly
6 line of said Tompkins and the easterly line of the aforementioned lands
7 of Pettit, North 06 16'04" East a distance of 138.68 feet to a point
8 being at the northeasterly corner of said Pettit, North 88 35'46" West a
9 distance of 97.00 feet to the point of beginning containing 1.054 acres
10 of lands.
11 S 5. The village of Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, acting through
12 its village board, shall dedicate replacement lands for use as parkland
13 for public park purposes, with such replacement lands, being of equal or
14 greater fair market value, as follows:
15 Parcel 1
16 Beginning at a point, said point being distant: North 01 09'29" East a
17 distance of 184.41 feet and North 83 31'31" West a distance of 40.17
18 feet from the northwesterly corner of lands now or formerly Pettit,
19 Liber 1274, Page 72, said point of beginning being on the westerly line
20 of Market Street; thence running along the westerly line of said Market
21 Street the following courses and distances: South 01 09'29" West a
22 distance of 186.99 feet, South 04 24'54" West a distance of 63.81 feet,
23 South 13 09'11" West a distance of 24.20 feet, South 21 00'47" West a
24 distance of 35.25 feet, South 21 00'47" West a distance of 116.98 feet,
25 South 27 35'14" West a distance of 73.16 feet, South 33 57'24" West a
26 distance of 39.58 feet, South 40 13'50" West a distance of 67.20 feet,
27 South 43 27'10" West a distance of 86.90 feet, and South 46 41'07" West
28 a distance of 95.89 feet to the easterly edge of the Wappinger Creek;
29 thence running northerly along said creek edge and by tie line North
30 14 04'30" East a distance of 716.84 feet; thence leaving said easterly
31 edge of the Wappinger Creek and running South 89 25'37" East a distance
32 of 123.39 feet to the point of beginning containing 0.9 acres of land.
33 Parcel 2
34 Beginning at the northeast corner of the lands of Creekside Springs
35 LLC and said point being the northwesterly corner of the lands of the
36 Village of Wappinger Falls, thence in a southerly and westerly direction
37 along th lands of the Village of Wappinger Falls the following courses
38 and distances, SOUTH 07-38-57 WEST 32.33 feet to a point, thence SOUTH
39 15-13-27 WEST 524.63 feet to a point, thence SOUTH 73-41-57 WEST 283.00
40 feet to a point along the easterly line of Franklindale Avenue (undevel-
41 oped), thence in a northerly direction along the easterly line of Frank-
42 lindale Avenue, NORTH 10-46-03 EAST 102.50 feet to a point, thence in a
43 easterly and northerly direction over and through the lands of Creekside
44 Springs LLC the following courses and distances, thence NORTH 79-13-57
45 EAST 35.00 feet to a point, thence SOUTH 10-46-03 EAST 63.95 feet to a
46 point, thence NORTH 73-41-57 EAST 139.03 feet to a point, thence NORTH
47 27-58-58 EAST 331.26 feet to a point, thence NORTH 15-13-27 EAST 256.98
48 feet to a point along the northerly line of the lands of Creekside
49 Springs, thence in a easterly direction along the northerly line of
50 Creekside Springs, SOUTH 78-18-49 EAST 30.80 feet to the point of begin-
51 ning. Containing 0.94 acres of land, more or less
52 S 6. The conveyances authorized by the provisions of this act shall
53 not occur until the village of Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, has
54 complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the alienation or
55 conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secretary of the inte-
56 rior with all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems
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1 necessary to assure that the substitution of other lands be equivalent
2 in fair market value and recreational usefulness to the lands being
3 alienated or converted.
4 S 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
