Bill Text: NY A05932 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the city of Long Beach to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to EW Offshore Wind Transport Corporation for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a subterranean conduit and electrical distribution cable system, together with subterranean transition joint bays and link boxes, and appurtenances thereto, under city of Long Beach parkland.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-10-25 - enacting clause stricken [A05932 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05932-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5932

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments

        AN ACT in relation to authorizing the city of Long Beach to alienate and
          discontinue the use of certain parklands

          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  city  of  Long
     2  Beach  is  hereby  authorized, acting by and through its governing body,
     3  and upon such terms and conditions as determined by,  and  in  the  sole
     4  discretion  of, such governing body, to: (a) temporarily discontinue the
     5  use of the parklands described in section three of this act; and (b)  to
     6  discontinue  the  use  as  parkland  and alienate the lands described in
     7  section four of this act, and to convey property interests in such lands
     8  to EW Offshore Wind Transport Corporation for the purpose of  construct-
     9  ing,  maintaining  and  operating  a subterranean conduit and electrical
    10  distribution cable system, together with subterranean  transition  joint
    11  bays and link boxes, and appurtenances thereto, under city of Long Beach
    12  parkland  located at Ocean Beach Park (also known as Long Beach), desig-
    13  nated on the city of Long Beach Tax Map as Section 59, Block  A,  Lot  2
    14  (or Lots 1 - 6).
    15    § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall only
    16  be  effective  on  the condition that the city of Long Beach dedicate an
    17  amount equal to or greater than fair market value of the parklands being
    18  alienated pursuant to section one of this act towards the acquisition of
    19  new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing  park  and  recre-
    20  ational facilities.
    21    §  3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be tempo-
    22  rarily discontinued  as  parkland  for  construction  are  described  as
    23  follows:
    24    DESCRIPTION OF A PROPOSED LIMITED USE AREA ACROSS A PORTION OF TAX LOT
    25  2, BLOCK A, CITY OF LONG BEACH, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09922-01-3

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     1    BEGINNING  AT  A  POINT IN THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN TAX LOT 2 BLOCK A
     2  AND THE SOUTHERLY TERMINUS OF RIVERSIDE BOULEVARD  (100'  WIDE  R.O.W.),
     3  SAID  POINT  BEING  DISTANT SOUTH 86 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 59 SECONDS EAST,
     4  8.57 FEET FROM WHERE THE SAME IS INTERSECTED BY TAX LOT 203  BLOCK  272,
     5  AND RUNS THENCE
     6    1. ALONG SAID DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN TAX LOT 2 BLOCK A AND THE SOUTHER-
     7  LY  TERMINUS OF SAID RIVERSIDE BOULEVARD, SOUTH 86 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 59
     8  SECONDS EAST 84.49 FEET TO A POINT, THENCE
     9    2. ACROSS TAX LOT 2 BLOCK A, SOUTH 01 DEGREES 31  MINUTES  22  SECONDS
    10  EAST, 488.93 FEET TO A POINT, THENCE
    11    3.  STILL  ACROSS TAX LOT 2 BLOCK A, ALONG THE MEAN HIGH-WATER LINE OF
    12  THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, 157.1+/- FEET TO A POINT, THENCE
    13    4. STILL ACROSS TAX LOT 2 BLOCK A, NORTH  00  DEGREES  23  MINUTES  41
    14  SECONDS WEST, 424.50 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING.
    15    CONTAINING 43,990 SQUARE FEET OR 1.0099 ACRES OF LAND.
    16    BEING  SHOWN  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  A  PLAN ENTITLED "LIMITED USE AREA
    17  EXHIBIT, PORTION OF TAX LOT 2, BLOCK A, BEACH AT  LONG  BEACH,  CITY  OF
    18  LONG  BEACH,  NASSAU  COUNTY,  NEW YORK "PREPARED BY DPK LAND SURVEYING,
    19  LLC, DATED FEBRUARY 17, 2023.
    20    The foregoing metes and bounds description  include  the  surface  and
    21  subsurface of the temporarily discontinued parkland for construction.
    22    §  4. The subsurface portion of land authorized by section one of this
    23  act to be permanently discontinued as parkland is described as follows:
    24    DESCRIPTION OF A PROPOSED LIMITED USE AREA ACROSS A PORTION OF TAX LOT
    25  2, BLOCK A, CITY OF LONG BEACH, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK.
    26    BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN TAX LOT  2  BLOCK  A
    27  AND  THE  SOUTHERLY  TERMINUS OF RIVERSIDE BOULEVARD (100' WIDE R.O.W.),
    28  SAID POINT BEING DISTANT SOUTH 86 DEGREES 49 MINUTES  59  SECONDS  EAST,
    29  8.57  FEET  FROM WHERE THE SAME IS INTERSECTED BY TAX LOT 203 BLOCK 272,
    30  AND RUNS THENCE
    31    1. ALONG SAID DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN TAX LOT 2 BLOCK A AND THE SOUTHER-
    32  LY TERMINUS OF SAID RIVERSIDE BOULEVARD, SOUTH 86 DEGREES 49 MINUTES  59
    33  SECONDS EAST 84.49 FEET TO A POINT, THENCE
    34    2.  ACROSS  TAX  LOT 2 BLOCK A, SOUTH 01 DEGREES 31 MINUTES 22 SECONDS
    35  EAST, 488.93 FEET TO A POINT, THENCE
    36    3. STILL ACROSS TAX LOT 2 BLOCK A, ALONG THE MEAN HIGH-WATER  LINE  OF
    37  THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, 157.1+/- FEET TO A POINT, THENCE
    38    4.  STILL  ACROSS  TAX  LOT  2 BLOCK A, NORTH 00 DEGREES 23 MINUTES 41
    39  SECONDS WEST, 424.50 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING.
    40    CONTAINING 43,990 SQUARE FEET OR 1.0099 ACRES OF LAND.
    41    BEING SHOWN IN ACCORDANCE WITH  A  PLAN  ENTITLED  "LIMITED  USE  AREA
    42  EXHIBIT,  PORTION  OF  TAX  LOT 2, BLOCK A, BEACH AT LONG BEACH, CITY OF
    43  LONG BEACH, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK "PREPARED  BY  DPK  LAND  SURVEYING,
    44  LLC, DATED FEBRUARY 17, 2023.
    45    The  portion  of  the property subject to the permanently discontinued
    46  parkland will be below the surface  of  the  Earth,  with  the  vertical
    47  extents  no  higher  than  elevation  -30 (Feet, North American Vertical
    48  Datum of 1988); the intent being that the proposed cable route will  not
    49  interfere  with  or  affect  the existing boardwalk, boardwalk piles, or
    50  jetty on the subject property.
    51    § 5. Upon completion  of  construction,  EW  Offshore  Wind  Transport
    52  Corporation,  as authorized by this act in agreement and in consultation
    53  with the New York State Historic Preservation Office, shall restore  the
    54  surface  of  the  lands  more particularly described in section three of
    55  this act and such lands shall continue to be used for park purposes.

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     1    § 6. In the event that the city of Long  Beach  received  any  funding
     2  support  or  assistance  from  the  federal government for the purchase,
     3  maintenance, or improvement of the parklands set forth in sections three
     4  and four of this act, the discontinuance and alienation  of  such  park-
     5  lands authorized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the
     6  city of Long Beach has complied with any federal requirements pertaining
     7  to  the  alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the
     8  secretary of the interior that the  alienation  or  conversion  complies
     9  with  all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary
    10  to assure the substitution of other lands shall be  equivalent  in  fair
    11  market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
    12    § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
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