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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A10413A
SPONSOR: Rules (Thiele) TITLE OF BILL:
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
PURPOSE:;
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 projects
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Authorizes the Town of East Hampton to discontinue as park-
land a parcel located at the intersection of Three Mile Harbor Road and
Springs Fireplace Road and convey it to the Suffolk County for the
purposes of a roadway improvement project.
Section 2. Provides that authorization to discontinue said parkland
shall only be effective on the condition that the Town of East Hampton
acquire and dedicate a parcel of land located at located at 16 Swamp
Road as parkland, provided the Town has never used such lands for public
open space or park purposes.
Section 3. Describes the metes and bounds of the parklands to be alien-
ated
Section 4. Describes the metes and bounds of the parcel that shall be
acquired and dedicated as parklands
Section 5. Section regarding the fair market value of the lands being
discontinued and the lands to be acquired.
Section 6. States that if the Town of East Hampton received any funding
support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
maintenance, or improvement of the parklands set forth in Section 3 of
this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland authorized
by the provisions of this act cannot occur until the Town of East Hamp-
ton complied with any federal requirements related to the alienation or
conversion of parklands, including satisfying the Secretary of the Inte-
rior deems necessary to assure the substitution of other lands shall be
the equivalent in fair market value and usefulness to the lands being
alienated or converted.
Section 7. Sets the effective date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10413--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Thiele) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments --
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.
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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.
