Senate Bill S9028A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the urban development corporation from participating in projects related to the Columbia University Education Mixed-Use Development Land Use Improvement and Civic Project Modified General Project Plan

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee


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    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S9028 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
New York State Urban Development Corporation Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, add §10-a, UDC Act

2023-S9028 - Summary

Prohibits the urban development corporation from participating in projects related to the Columbia University Education Mixed-Use Development Land Use Improvement and Civic Project Modified General Project Plan adopted by the empire state development corporation on December 18, 2008.

2023-S9028 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9028 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9028
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to repeal the Columbia University Education Mixed-Use Development
   Land  Use  Improvement and Civic Project Modified General Project Plan
   adopted by the empire state development corporation  on  December  18,
   2008

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Legislative intent. The overwhelming breadth and scope  of
 The   Columbia  University  Education  Mixed-Use  Development  Land  Use
 Improvement and Civic Project Modified General Project Plan  adopted  by
 the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) on December 18, 2008 has
 been  of  longstanding  concern  to  residents  of  the  30th Senatorial
 District and Harlem in general.  The project was vehemently  opposed  by
 many  who  live  in  the community, including those whose residences and
 businesses were in the area to be  destroyed.    Many  feared  that  the
 project  was not just an abject land grab by a private university, which
 would have no public benefit, but that it was a way to displace  histor-
 ically settled Black residents, businesses and homeowners.  Meetings and
 hearings  were  held  and  the  community  was  generally opposed to and
 concerned about the project.  Today, with soaring rents, a replete  lack
 of  affordable housing and the widespread gentrification of Black Harlem
 leading to historic outmigration of generational residents, the greatest
 fears of those who opposed this project have been realized.  The project
 was one of the  greatest  abuses  of  the  mystical  standard  known  as
 "blight"  accompanied  by "eminent domain" that our state and nation has
 ever seen.  The words, the process and our people were used  and  abused
 towards  a  predetermined  end.   The Appellate Division of the New York
 State Supreme Court agreed in 2009, finding in  sum,  that:  The  Empire
 State  Development Corporation violated both state and federal due proc-
 ess clauses in an  effort  to  prevent  affected  property  owners  from
 obtaining  necessary information.   ESDC's finding of blight was "bereft
 of facts" to establish true blight.  The ESDC's determination  that  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2023-S9028A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
New York State Urban Development Corporation Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, add §10-a, UDC Act

2023-S9028A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the urban development corporation from participating in projects related to the Columbia University Education Mixed-Use Development Land Use Improvement and Civic Project Modified General Project Plan adopted by the empire state development corporation on December 18, 2008.

2023-S9028A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9028A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9028--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, BRISPORT, JACKSON, SALAZAR -- read twice and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
   Corporations, Authorities and  Commissions  --  committee  discharged,
   bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
   committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the urban development corporation act,  in  relation  to
   the  participation  of  the  corporation  in  projects pursuant to the
   Columbia University Education Mixed-Use Development Land Use  Improve-
   ment  and  Civic  Project Modified General Project Plan adopted by the
   empire state development corporation on December 18, 2008
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.   Legislative intent.   The legislature finds and declares
 that the project area identified in the  Columbia  University  Education
 Mixed-Use  Development  Land  Use Improvement and Civic Project Modified
 General Project Plan and surrounding neighborhoods are not a substandard
 nor insanitary area, nor in danger of becoming  substandard  or  insani-
 tary, and therefore do not require continued assistance and resources of
 the urban development corporation or the empire state development corpo-
 ration as authorized by the New York state urban development corporation
 act.
   §  2.  Section  10  of   section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968,
 constituting the urban development corporation act, is amended by adding
 a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
   (I) IN THE  CASE  OF  ALL  PROJECTS,  THE  CORPORATION  SHALL  NOT  BE
 EMPOWERED  TO  UNDERTAKE  THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION,
 REHABILITATION OR IMPROVEMENT OF A PROJECT COVERED BY SECTION  TEN-A  OF
 THIS ACT.
   §  3.   Section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the
 urban development corporation act, is amended by adding  a  new  section
 10-a to read as follows:
   §  10-A.  PARTICIPATION  IN CERTAIN PROJECTS. THE CORPORATION SHALL NO
 LONGER BE EMPOWERED TO UNDERTAKE THE ACQUISITION,  CONSTRUCTION,  RECON-
 STRUCTION,  REHABILITATION OR IMPROVEMENT OF ANY PROJECT PURSUANT TO THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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