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                                 4392--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 22, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
  recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
  the city of Yonkers to establish a residential parking system  in  the
  Yonkers Raceway/Empire City area

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Legislative findings. The legislature  hereby  finds  that
there is an inadequacy of on-street parking for residents in the city of
Yonkers  in  an  area  located to the west of the Yonkers Raceway/Empire
City area. Up to twenty thousand persons per day may visit  the  raceway
and,  despite  the  availability of free self parking, valet parking and
continuous shuttle service, many park  instead  on  nearby  streets  for
convenience  and  accessibility. The resulting lack of parking for resi-
dents of the approximately  two hundred sixty homes on  the  streets  in
this  area  has led to traffic hazards, congestion, noise pollution, and
litter and debris on the streets, sidewalks and lawns.
  The legislature further finds that a residential parking permit system
will reduce such hazards and pollution levels. The  legislature,  there-
fore, hereby declares the necessity of this act to authorize the city of
Yonkers to adopt  a residential parking permit system in accordance with
the provisions of this act.
  S  2.   The section heading and subdivision 2 of section 1640-e of the
vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 691 of the  laws  of  1996,
are amended to read as follows:
  Residential parking system in the Tibbetts Brook Park [area] AND YONK-
ERS RACEWAY/EMPIRE CITY AREAS of the city of Yonkers.
  2.  Such  residential  parking  permit  system may only be established
within:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (A) the Tibbetts Brook Park area of the city of  Yonkers  which  shall
mean  that  area  generally  bounded by Harrison Avenue proceeding south
from Tibbetts Brook  Park  to  Alan  B.  Shepard  Place;  Tibbetts  Road
proceeding  southerly from Tibbetts Brook Park to Alan B. Shepard Place;
Sedgewick  Avenue  proceeding southerly from Tibbetts Brook Park to Alan
B. Shepard Place; Jervis Road  between  Harrison  Avenue  and  Sedgewick
Avenue and from the northern intersection of Sedgewick Avenue proceeding
southerly along Jervis Road to the Alan B. Shepard Place line[.]; AND
  (B)  THE  YONKERS  RACEWAY/EMPIRE  CITY  AREA  OF  THE CITY OF YONKERS
CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING ROADWAYS:
  (I) BELMONT AVENUE FROM ORIENT STREET TO YONKERS AVENUE;
  (II) BOONE STREET FROM CENTRAL PARK AVENUE TO DEAD END;
  (III) CLARK STREET FROM CENTRAL PARK AVENUE TO ORIENT STREET;
  (IV) LORING AVENUE FROM CENTRAL PARK AVENUE TO ORIENT STREET; AND
  (V) CHAMBERLAIN AVENUE FROM BELMONT AVENUE TO CENTRAL PARK AVENUE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.