Authorizes the city of Batavia to alienate certain parklands for use as a municipal parking lot and to preserve the historic Brisbane mansion, the official text

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                                  6421--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 13, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 city of Batavia to alienate certain parklands for
   use as a municipal parking lot and to preserve the  historic  Brisbane
   mansion
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the city of Batavia,
 located in the county of Genesee, acting by and  through  its  governing
 body  and  upon such terms and conditions as determined by such body, is
 hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands and to sell and convey  at
 fair market value the lands more particularly described in section three
 of  this  act,  for the purposes of providing free municipal parking and
 preserving the historic Brisbane mansion for residential or hotel uses.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall only
 be effective on the condition that  the  city  of  Batavia  dedicate  an
 amount  equal  to or greater than the fair market value of the parklands
 being alienated pursuant to section one of this act towards the acquisi-
 tion of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing  park  and
 recreational facilities.
   § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
 tinued as parklands are described as follows:
   ALL  that  tract  or  parcel  of land, situate in the City of Batavia,
 County of Genesee and State of New York, being part of Original  Village
 Lots  15  and 16 and part of the alley adjoining Lot 16 on the east, and
 more particularly described as follows:
   Beginning at a point on the northerly street line of East Main  Street
 at  the  southwest corner of land owned by the United States Government,
 known as the Post Office property,  said  point  being  N  79°47'00"  W,

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 149.68'  from the intersection of the northerly street line of East Main
 Street and the westerly street line of Jefferson Avenue;
   Thence  N  79°47'00"  W,  along the northerly street line of East Main
 Street, a distance of 50.39' to a point;
   Thence N 58°32'00" W, along the northerly street  line  of  West  Main
 Street, a distance of 147.05' to a point;
   Thence  N  30°40'00" E, along the easterly line of lands of the County
 of Genesee, a distance of 133.04' to a point;
   Thence S 59°20'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of  lands  of
 the County of Genesee, a distance of 25.00' to a point;
   Thence  N  30°40'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of lands of
 the County of Genesee, a distance of 120.00' to a point;
   Thence N 59°20'00" W, continuing along the easterly line of  lands  of
 the County of Genesee, a distance of 31.00' to a point;
   Thence  N  30°40'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of lands of
 the County of Genesee and an extension thereof, a distance of 55.00'  to
 a point;
   Thence  S 59°04'00" E a distance of 341.61' to a point on the westerly
 street line of Jefferson Avenue;
   Thence S 30°56'00" W, along the  westerly  street  line  of  Jefferson
 Avenue,  a distance of 83.60' to a point, said point being the northeast
 corner of the Post Office property, said point also being N 30°56'00" E,
 155.00' from the intersection of the northerly street line of East  Main
 Street and the westerly street line of Jefferson Avenue;
   Thence  N  59°04'00"  W,  along  the northerly line of the Post Office
 property, a distance of 140.00' to a point, said point being the  north-
 west corner of the Post Office property;
   Thence S 30°56'00" W, along the westerly line of the Post Office prop-
 erty,  a distance of 207.95' to the point of beginning, containing 1.580
 +/- acres.
   § 4. In the event that  the  city  of  Batavia  received  any  funding
 support  or  assistance  from  the  federal government for the purchase,
 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in  section  three
 of  this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author-
 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur  until  the  city  of
 Batavia  has  complied  with  any federal requirements pertaining to the
 alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying  the  secre-
 tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all
 conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
 the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
 and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.