Bill Text: NY S09741 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the town of East Hampton to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland for the purpose of a Suffolk County roadway improvement project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - returned to senate [S09741 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S09741-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9741--A IN SENATE May 24, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- 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 the town of East Hampton to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland for the purpose of a Suffolk County roadway improvement project The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the town of East 2 Hampton, acting by and through its governing body, and upon such terms 3 and conditions as determined by such body, is hereby authorized to 4 discontinue as parkland and to alienate the lands described in section 5 three of this act, and to convey such parklands to the county of Suffolk 6 for the purposes of a roadway improvement project along Three Mile 7 Harbor Road. 8 § 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be 9 effective only upon the condition that the town of East Hampton acquire 10 and dedicate the lands described in section four of this act as park- 11 lands, provided that the town of East Hampton has never used such lands 12 for public open space or park purposes. 13 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be alien- 14 ated are more particularly described as follows: 15 All that certain tract of land, situate, lying and being in the Town 16 of East Hampton, County of Suffolk and State of New York, more precisely 17 described as follows: 18 Northerly 500 feet more or less by lands of Cecelia Bennett and lands 19 now or formerly of Peter Fedi; 20 Southeasterly 1,000 feet more or less by the Springs-Fireplace High- 21 way; and, 22 Westerly 1,000 feet more or less by the Three Mile Harbor Highway, 23 said premises being a triangular parcel of land located at the inter- 24 section of said Three Mile Harbor Highway and Springs-Fireplace Highway. 25 Containing 2.0 acres more or less. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15765-03-4S. 9741--A 2 1 § 4. Prior to the discontinuance and alienation of the parklands 2 described in section three of this act, the town of East Hampton shall 3 acquire and dedicate as parklands such land described as follows: 4 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and 5 being in the Town of East Hampton, County of Suffolk and State of New 6 York, bounded and described as follows: 7 BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the Northwester- 8 ly side of Swamp Road with the Northeasterly side of East Hampton-Sag 9 Harbor Turnpike (Route 114); 10 RUNNING THENCE along the Northeasterly side of East Hampton-Sag Harbor 11 Turnpike, the following two (2) courses and distances: 12 1. North 49 degrees 35 minutes 21 seconds West, 91.96 feet - actual 13 (91.76 feet - deed); 14 2. North 31 degrees 41 minutes 41 seconds West, 68.87 feet - actual 15 (North 30 degrees 50 minutes 11seconds West, 69.28 feet - deed) to a 16 pin; 17 THENCE North 47 degrees 28 minutes 47 seconds East, 300.00 feet - 18 actual (298.88 feet - deed) to a monument; 19 THENCE North 31 degrees 41 minutes 41 seconds West, 263.84 feet to a 20 monument; 21 THENCE North 54 degrees 44 minutes 10 seconds East, 249.99 feet - 22 actual (250.00 feet - deed) to a set pin and land now or formerly of 23 Town of East Hampton; 24 THENCE along said land, South 28 degrees 43 minutes 37 seconds East, 25 507.62 feet to the Northwesterly side of Swamp Road; 26 THENCE along the Northwesterly side of Swamp Road, the following three 27 (3) courses and distances: 28 1. South 59 degrees 20 minutes 07 seconds West, 7.42 feet to a pin; 29 2. South 79 degrees 59 minutes 59 seconds West, 195.63 feet to a monu- 30 ment; 31 3. South 47 degrees 26 minutes 39 seconds West, 305.92 feet to the 32 corner first above-mentioned, the point or place of BEGINNING 33 Containing 3.56 acres of land. 34 § 5. In the event that the fair market value of the lands described in 35 section four of this act to be dedicated as parklands by the town of 36 East Hampton pursuant to this act are not equal to or greater than the 37 fair market value of the parklands to be alienated as described in 38 section three of this act, the town of East Hampton shall dedicate the 39 difference of the fair market value of the lands to be alienated and the 40 lands to be dedicated for the acquisition of additional parklands and/or 41 capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities. 42 § 6. In the event that the town of East Hampton received any funding 43 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase, 44 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three 45 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author- 46 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of 47 East Hampton has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to 48 the alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the 49 secretary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies 50 with all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary 51 to assure the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair 52 market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted. 53 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
