Bill Text: NY S05675 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5675 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes the city of Troy to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05675 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05675-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 5675                                                  A. 7806
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 27, 2015
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       IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
         ment
       IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Cities
       AN  ACT  authorizing  the  city  of  Troy to alienate and convey certain
         parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of  land
         to replace such parkland
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The city of Troy,  county  of  Rensselaer,  acting  by  and
    2  through its city council, is hereby authorized to discontinue and alien-
    3  ate as parklands, the lands described in section three of this act.
    4    S  2.  The  authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
    5  effective only upon the condition that the  city  of  Troy  dedicate  an
    6  amount  equal  to or greater than the fair market value of the parklands
    7  being alienated to the acquisition of new parklands and/or toward  capi-
    8  tal improvements to existing parkland and recreational facilities.
    9    S  3.  The  lands  to  be  discontinued as parklands and alienated and
   10  conveyed is more fully described as follows:
   11    ALL that certain tract, piece, or parcel of land, situate,  lying  and
   12  being  in  the  City  of Troy, County of Rensselaer and the State of New
   13  York, being more particularly bounded and described:  BEGINNING  at  the
   14  northeast  corner  of Federal Street and Sixth Avenue and running thence
   15  along the easterly margin of Sixth Avenue N23  16' 00" E for a  distance
   16  of  417.27  feet  to  a  capped  iron rod; Thence the following four (4)
   17  courses along the lands conveyed to the Kennedy Towers Housing  Develop-
   18  ment Fund Company by a deed dated July 1, 2003 and recorded in the Rens-
   19  selaer  County Clerk's Office in Book of Deeds 548 at Page 318; S66  44'
   20  00" E for a distance of 7.77 feet to a capped iron rod  at  a  point  of
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11248-01-5
       S. 5675                             2                            A. 7806
    1  curvature;  Thence  southerly  and  easterly  along  a curve to the left
    2  having delta angle of 68  15' 00", a  radius  of  162.00  feet,  an  arc
    3  length  of  192.97 feet and having a chord bearing S 46  23' 35" E for a
    4  distance  of  181.76 feet to a concrete monument found; Thence S 11  21'
    5  00" W for a distance of 162.99 feet to a concrete monument found; Thence
    6  S 78  33' 00" for a distance of 151.58 feet to a capped iron rod on  the
    7  westerly  margin  of  relocate Peoples Street; THENCE along the westerly
    8  and northerly margin of the relocated Peoples Street the  following  six
    9  (6)  courses: S 55  28' 30" W for a distance of 68.74 feet to a point; N
   10  83  31' 30" W for a distance of 21.00 feet to a point; S 44  58'  30"  W
   11  for  a distance of 74.80 feet to a point; S 69  28' 30" W for a distance
   12  of 63.50 feet to a point; S 85  28' 30" W for a distance of  50.00  feet
   13  to a point; N 85  31' 30" W for a distance of 9.52 feet to a capped iron
   14  rod on the northerly margin of Federal Street; Thence westerly along the
   15  northerly  margin of Federal Street the following two (2) courses: N 71
   16  44' 00" W for a distance of 13.59 feet to a point; N 73  52' 00" W for a
   17  distance of 164.41 feet to the point and place of beginning, said parcel
   18  of land containing about 1.95  acres of lands more or less.
   19    S 4. If the land that is the subject of this act has received  funding
   20  pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the discontin-
   21  uance  of  parklands  authorized by the provisions of this act shall not
   22  occur until the municipality has complied with the federal  requirements
   23  pertaining  to  the  conversion  of  parklands, including satisfying the
   24  secretary of the interior  that  the  discontinuance  will  include  all
   25  conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
   26  the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
   27  and recreational usefulness to the lands being discontinued.
   28    S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.