NY State Senate Bill 2023-S6755A

Senate Bill S6755A

Signed By Governor

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes the town of Warwick, county of Orange to alienate certain lands held in public trust in the town of Warwick, county of Orange

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jul 19, 2023	signed chap.203
Jul 13, 2023	delivered to governor
Jun 10, 2023	returned to senate passed assembly home rule request ordered to third reading rules cal.855 substituted for a6959a
Jun 08, 2023	referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate home rule request
Jun 07, 2023	ordered to third reading cal.1699 committee discharged and committed to rules
Jun 05, 2023	print number 6755a
Jun 05, 2023	amend and recommit to local government
May 09, 2023	referred to local government

Votes

- Jun 8, 2023 - Floor Vote
  S6755A
  
  62
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 8, 2023
      
      aye (62)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Ashby
      
      Bailey
      
      Borrello
      
      Breslin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brouk
      
      Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick
      
      Chu
      
      Cleare
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gonzalez
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mannion
      
      Martinez
      
      Martins
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Murray
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Palumbo
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rhoads
      
      Rivera
      
      Rolison
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Scarcella-Spanton
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      Walczyk
      
      Webb
      
      Weber
      
      Weik
      
      excused (1)
      
      Cooney
  Jun 7, 2023 - Rules Committee Vote
  S6755A
  
  20
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 7, 2023
      
      aye (20)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Bailey
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mayer
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Thomas
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Helming

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2023-S6755 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6959
Law Section:: Parks

2023-S6755 - Summary

Authorizes the town of Warwick, county of Orange to alienate certain lands held in public trust in the town of Warwick, county of Orange.

2023-S6755 - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6755

SPONSOR: SKOUFIS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act authorizing the town of Warwick, county of Orange to alienate
certain lands held in public trust in the town of Warwick, county of
Orange

 
PURPOSE:

To authorize the town of Warwick to discontinue public trust lands and
alienate them to urbanXtracts, a cannabis business, in exchange for
lands more suitable for recreational public park use and for the town to
dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the
property being alienated to the acquisition of new lands or capital
improvements to existing lands held in public trust for recreation,
historic and/or environmental preservation purposes.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: The town of Warwick is authorized to discontinue certain

public trust lands and sell them to urbanXtracts, a cannabis business,
for the purpose of exchanging the land for other land that is better
suited for recreational public park use.

Section 2: The authorization in Section 1 is conditional upon the town
of Warwick dedicating an amount equal to or greater than the fair market
value of the land being sold towards either acquiring new lands for
public use or improving existing lands held in public trust.

Section 3: Describes the specific parcel of land that the town of
Warwick is authorized to discontinue and sell to urbanXtracts under the
conditions outlined in Sections 1 and 2.

Section 4: States that if the town of Warwick receives any funding or
assistance from the federal government for the purchase, maintenance, or
improvement of the lands held in public trust, then the discontinuance
and alienation of such lands held in public trust, as authorized in
section one of the act, cannot occur until the town of Warwick complies
with any federal requirements related to the alienation or conversion of
such public trust lands.

Section 5: Sets effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill will allow the town of Warwick, in Orange County, New York, to
discontinue public trust lands and exchange them with private lands
owned by a cannabis business called urban tracts. This exchange of lands
will allow for the development of recreational public park use, which
are more suitable for this purpose and are adjacent to an existing town
park. This exchange will also require the town to dedicate an amount
equal to or greater than the fair market value of the property being
alienated towards the acquisition of new lands or capital improvements
to existing lands held in public trust for recreation, historic, and
environmental preservation purposes. The bill is needed to enable the
town to make this exchange and ensure that the public trust lands are
used effectively for public purposes.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Effective Immediately.

2023-S6755 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6755
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT authorizing the town of Warwick, county  of  Orange  to  alienate
   certain  lands  held in public trust in the town of Warwick, county of
   Orange

   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 town of Warwick,
 in the county of Orange, acting by and through its town board, is hereby
 authorized to discontinue as public trust  lands  and  to  alienate  the
 lands  more  particularly described in section three of this act for the
 purpose of exchanging such land  for  lands  owned  by  urbanXtracts,  a
 "seed-to-market"  cannabis  business,  which lands are more suitable for
 development for recreational public park use and are located adjacent to
 an existing town park. The commissioner of general services shall  amend
 a deed from the people of the state to the New York State Urban Develop-
 ment  Corporation  d/b/a  Empire  State  Development conveying the lands
 described in section three of this act, relating to  the  uses  of  such
 lands,  in order to permit the alienation pursuant to this act. In addi-
 tion, the president of the New York State Urban Development  Corporation
 d/b/a  Empire  State  Development  shall  amend a deed from the New York
 State Urban Development Corporation d/b/a Empire  State  Development  to
 the  town  of  Warwick conveying the lands described in section three of
 this act, relating to the uses of such lands, in  order  to  permit  the
 alienation pursuant to this act.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
 effect  only  upon the condition that the town of Warwick shall dedicate
 an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value  of  the  lands
 being  discontinued  and  alienated  pursuant to section one of this act
 towards (a) the acquisition of new lands to be used for the  purpose  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11031-02-3
 S. 6755                             2

 
 recreation,  historic  and/or  environmental preservation and associated
 public works and that shall be held  in  public  trust  or  (b)  capital
 improvements to existing lands held in public trust for such purposes.
   §  3. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be discontin-
 ued as public trust land and alienated are as follows:
   All that parcel of land situate,  lying  and  being  in  the  Town  of
 Warwick, County of Orange and State of New York, being more particularly
 bounded and described as follows:
   Beginning  at  a  point  along  the  easterly boundary of Lot 5 at the
 northwesterly corner of Lot 2 West, being located S 00 01' 34" W,  50.00
 feet  from  the most easterly corner of Lot 1; thence along the boundary
 of Lot 2 West the following four (4) courses and distances:
   (1) S 00° 01' 34" W, a distance of 108.85 feet to a point;
   (2) S 13° 15' 40" W, a distance of 234.10 feet to a point;
   (3) S 25° 00' 00" E, a distance of 148.92 feet to a point;
   (4) N 72° 20' 30" E, a distance of 553.66 feet to a point;
   thence  through  Lot  5  the  following  nineteen  (19)  courses   and
 distances:
   (1) S 13° 00' 00" W, a distance of 62.71 feet to a point;
   (2) S 52° 27' 48" W, a distance of 1,126.22 feet to a point;
   (3) S 69° 09' 00" W, a distance of 206.00 feet to a point;
   (4) N 20° 51' 00" W, a distance of 254.50 feet to a point;
   (5) N 69° 09' 00" E, a distance of 53.12 feet to a point;
   (6) S 69° 37' 16" E, a distance of 62.55 feet to a point;
   (7) N 20° 22' 24" E, a distance of 80.00 feet to a point;
   (8) N 70° 38' 56" W, a distance of 80.00 feet to a point;
   (9) N 29° 44' 43" E, a distance of 13.41 feet to a point;
   (10) N 51° 49' 50" W a distance of 57.38 feet to a point;
   (11)  along a curve to the left having a radius of 115.00 feet, an arc
 length of 46.43 feet to a point;
   (12) N 74° 57' 52" W, a distance of 25.46 feet to a point;
   (13) along a curve to the right having a radius of 45.00 feet, an  arc
 length of 43.03 feet to a point;
   (14)  N 20° 10' 47" W, a distance of 397.60 to the point located along
 the southerly boundary of a roadway now known as John Hicks Drive,  said
 point  being located N 65° 09' 20" E, 180.90 feet from the northeasterly
 boundary of Lot 1;
   (15) N 65° 09' 20" E, for a distance of 136.44 feet to a point;
   (16) along a curve to the right having a radius of 250.00 feet, an arc
 length of 97.24 feet to a point;
   (17) N 87° 26' 30" E, a distance of 140.91 feet to a point;
   (18) along a curve to the left having a radius of 350.00 feet, an  arc
 length of 270.71 feet;
   (19) along a curve to the right having a radius of 365.00 feet, an arc
 length of 298.77 feet to the Point Of Beginning.
   Containing 15.67 acres of land, more or less.
   Being a portion of Lot 5 shown on the map entitled "Survey Map showing
 The  Remaining Lands to be Retained by the Town of Warwick of the former
 Mid-Orange Correctional Facility,  prepared  for  Warwick  Valley  Local
 Development  Corporation,  New  York  State  Office of General Services,
 Empire State Development Corporation," dated July 2, 2013, last  revised
 December  5,  2013,  on  file  at  the  New York State Office of General
 Services as OGS Map No. 2462, Sheet 4.
   § 4. In the event that  the  town  of  Warwick  received  any  funding
 support  or  assistance  from  the  federal government for the purchase,
 maintenance or improvement of the lands held in public trust  set  forth
 S. 6755                             3
 
 in  section three of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such
 lands held in public trust authorized by the provisions of  section  one
 of  this act shall not occur until the town of Warwick has complied with
 any  federal  requirements pertaining to the alienation or conversion of
 such public trust lands, including satisfying the secretary of the inte-
 rior 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.

2023-S6755A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6959
Law Section:: Parks

2023-S6755A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the town of Warwick, county of Orange to alienate certain lands held in public trust in the town of Warwick, county of Orange.

2023-S6755A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6755A

SPONSOR: SKOUFIS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act authorizing the town of Warwick, county of Orange to alienate
certain lands held in public trust in the town of Warwick, county of
Orange

 
PURPOSE:

To authorize the town of Warwick to discontinue public trust lands and
alienate them to urbanXtracts, a cannabis business, in exchange for
lands more suitable for recreational public park use and for the town to
dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the
property being alienated to the acquisition of new lands or capital
improvements to existing lands held in public trust for recreation,
historic and/or environmental preservation purposes.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: The town of Warwick is authorized to discontinue certain

public trust lands and sell them to urbanXtracts, a cannabis business,
for the purpose of exchanging the land for other land that is better
suited for recreational public park use.

Section 2: The authorization in Section 1 is conditional upon the town
of Warwick dedicating the lands described in section four as parkland
provided that the town of Warwick has never used such lands for public
open space or park purposes.

Section 3: Describes the specific parcel of land that the town of
Warwick is authorized to discontinue and convey to urbanXtracts under
the conditions outlined in Sections 1 and 2.

Section 4: Describes the specific parcel of land that urbanXtracts is to
convey to the town of Warwick, and the town of Warwick is to acquire and
dedicate as public trust land.

Section 5: Section regarding the fair market value of the lands being
alienated and the lands to be conveyed.

Section 6: States that if the town of Warwick receives any funding or
assistance from the federal government for the purchase, maintenance, or
improvement of the lands held in public trust, then the discontinuance
and alienation of such lands held in public trust, as authorized in
section one of the act, cannot occur until the town of Warwick complies
with any federal requirements related to the alienation or conversion of
such public trust lands.

Section 7: Sets effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill will allow the town of Warwick, in Orange County, New York, to
discontinue public trust lands and exchange them with private lands
owned by a cannabis business called urbanXtracts. This exchange of lands
will allow for the development of recreational public park use, which
are more suitable for this purpose and are adjacent to an existing town
park. This exchange will also require the town to dedicate the differ-
ence of the fair market value of the lands to be alienated and the lands
to be dedicated for the acquisition of additional parklands and/or capi-
tal improvement to existing park and recreational facilities.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Effective Immediately.

2023-S6755A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6755--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 Warwick, county  of  Orange  to  alienate
   certain  lands  held in public trust in the town of Warwick, county of
   Orange
 
   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 town of Warwick,
 in the county of Orange, acting by and through its town board, is hereby
 authorized  to  discontinue  as  public  trust lands and to alienate the
 lands more particularly described in section three of this act  for  the
 purpose  of  exchanging  such  land  for  lands owned by urbanXtracts, a
 "seed-to-market" cannabis business.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
 effect only upon the condition that the town of Warwick  shall  dedicate
 the  lands  described  in  section four of this act as parkland provided
 that the town of Warwick has never used such lands for public open space
 or park purposes.
   § 3. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be  discontin-
 ued as public trust land and alienated are as follows:
   All  that  parcel  of  land  situate,  lying  and being in the Town of
 Warwick, County of Orange and State of New York, being more particularly
 bounded and described as follows:
   Beginning at a point along the easterly  boundary  of  Lot  5  at  the
 northwesterly  corner of Lot 2 West, being located S 00 01' 34" W, 50.00
 feet from the most easterly corner of Lot 1; thence along  the  boundary
 of Lot 2 West the following four (4) courses and distances:
   (1) S 00° 01' 34" W, a distance of 108.85 feet to a point;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11031-04-3
 S. 6755--A                          2

 
   (2) S 13° 15' 40" W, a distance of 234.10 feet to a point;
   (3) S 25° 00' 00" E, a distance of 148.92 feet to a point;
   (4) N 72° 20' 30" E, a distance of 553.66 feet to a point;
   thence   through  Lot  5  the  following  nineteen  (19)  courses  and
 distances:
   (1) S 13° 00' 00" W, a distance of 62.71 feet to a point;
   (2) S 52° 27' 48" W, a distance of 1,126.22 feet to a point;
   (3) S 69° 09' 00" W, a distance of 206.00 feet to a point;
   (4) N 20° 51' 00" W, a distance of 254.50 feet to a point;
   (5) N 69° 09' 00" E, a distance of 53.12 feet to a point;
   (6) S 69° 37' 16" E, a distance of 62.55 feet to a point;
   (7) N 20° 22' 24" E, a distance of 80.00 feet to a point;
   (8) N 70° 38' 56" W, a distance of 80.00 feet to a point;
   (9) N 29° 44' 43" E, a distance of 13.41 feet to a point;
   (10) N 51° 49' 50" W a distance of 57.38 feet to a point;
   (11) along a curve to the left having a radius of 115.00 feet, an  arc
 length of 46.43 feet to a point;
   (12) N 74° 57' 52" W, a distance of 25.46 feet to a point;
   (13)  along a curve to the right having a radius of 45.00 feet, an arc
 length of 43.03 feet to a point;
   (14) N 20° 10' 47" W, a distance of 397.60 to the point located  along
 the  southerly boundary of a roadway now known as John Hicks Drive, said
 point being located N 65° 09' 20" E, 180.90 feet from the  northeasterly
 boundary of Lot 1;
   (15) N 65° 09' 20" E, for a distance of 136.44 feet to a point;
   (16) along a curve to the right having a radius of 250.00 feet, an arc
 length of 97.24 feet to a point;
   (17) N 87° 26' 30" E, a distance of 140.91 feet to a point;
   (18)  along a curve to the left having a radius of 350.00 feet, an arc
 length of 270.71 feet;
   (19) along a curve to the right having a radius of 365.00 feet, an arc
 length of 298.77 feet to the Point Of Beginning.
   Containing 15.67 acres of land, more or less.
   Being a portion of Lot 5 shown on the map entitled "Survey Map showing
 The Remaining Lands to be Retained by the Town of Warwick of the  former
 Mid-Orange  Correctional  Facility,  prepared  for  Warwick Valley Local
 Development Corporation, New York  State  Office  of  General  Services,
 Empire  State Development Corporation," dated July 2, 2013, last revised
 December 5, 2013, on file at  the  New  York  State  Office  of  General
 Services as OGS Map No. 2462, Sheet 4.
   §  4.  Prior  to the discontinuance and alienation of the public trust
 land described in section three of this act, the town of  Warwick  shall
 acquire  and  dedicate  as  public  trust  land  such land consisting of
 approximately 2.28 acres described as follows:
   All that parcel of land situate,  lying  and  being  in  the  Town  of
 Warwick, County of Orange and State of New York, being more particularly
 bounded and described as follows:
   Beginning  at  a  point  on  the  most Easterly corner of lands now or
 formerly NY Hemp Source, LLC (Section 46, Block 1, Lot 35) also known as
 Lot 2 West (Filed Map number 38-14 in the Orange County Clerk's  Office)
 where  the same is intersected by the Westerly Line of State School Road
 and runs along the original line of Lot 2 West S72°20'30W for a distance
 of 490.07 feet to a point, thence;
   Along a line to become the new division line between NY  Hemp  Source,
 LLC and The Town Of Warwick N13°00'00"E for a distance of 237.29 feet to
 a point, thence;
 S. 6755--A                          3
 
   Along  the  same N06°32'49"E for a distance of 103.00 feet to a point,
 thence;
   Along  the Southerly and Westerly line of State School Road on a curve
 to the left with a radius of 1,714.50 feet for an arc distance of 220.41
 feet subtended with a Chord Bearing S86°56'44"E for a distance of 220.26
 feet to a point, thence;
   Along the same N89°22'18"E for a distance of 96.39 feet  to  a  point,
 thence;
   Along the same on a curve to the right with a radius of 35.50 feet for
 an arc distance of 44.41 feet subtended with a Chord Bearing S54°47'11"E
 a distance of 41.57 feet to a point, thence;
   Along  the same S18°56'40"E a distance of 158.83 feet to the point and
 place of beginning.
   Said parcel containing 2.28 acres, more or less.
   § 5. In the event that the fair market value of the lands described in
 section four of this act to be dedicated by the town of Warwick as park-
 lands are not equal to or greater than the  fair  market  value  of  the
 lands  to  be  alienated  as described in section three of this act, the
 town of Warwick shall dedicate the difference of the fair  market  value
 of  the  lands  to  be  alienated  and the lands to be dedicated for the
 acquisition of additional parklands and/or capital improvement to exist-
 ing park and recreational facilities.
   § 6. In the event that  the  town  of  Warwick  received  any  funding
 support  or  assistance  from  the  federal government for the purchase,
 maintenance or improvement of the lands held in public trust  set  forth
 in  section three of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such
 lands held in public trust authorized by the provisions of  section  one
 of  this act shall not occur until the town of Warwick has complied with
 any federal requirements pertaining to the alienation or  conversion  of
 such public trust lands, including satisfying the secretary of the inte-
 rior  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.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

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