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                                   6916
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Cities
 
 AN ACT authorizing the city of Batavia to alienate certain parklands for
   use  as  a municipal parking lot and to preserve the historic Brisbane
   mansion
 
   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 city of Batavia,
 located  in  the  county of Genesee, acting by and through its governing
 body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such  body,  is
 hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands the lands more particular-
 ly described in section three of this act, for the purposes of providing
 free  municipal  parking  and to preserve the historic Brisbane mansion,
 which currently houses the city police department.
   § 2. Whereas the parking lot and Brisbane mansion currently occupy the
 land and are not recreational green space, the city of  Batavia  is  not
 required to dedicate land of equal or greater fair market value as park-
 land within the city.
   § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
 tinued as parklands are described as follows:
   ALL  that  tract  or  parcel  of land, situate in the City of Batavia,
 County of Genesee and State of New York, being part of Original  Village
 Lots  15  and 16 and part of the alley adjoining Lot 16 on the east, and
 more particularly described as follows:
   Beginning at a point on the northerly street line of East Main  Street
 at  the  southwest corner of land owned by the United States Government,
 known as the Post Office property,  said  point  being  N  79°47'00"  W,
 149.68'  from the intersection of the northerly street line of East Main
 Street and the westerly street line of Jefferson Avenue;
   Thence N 79°47'00" W, along the northerly street  line  of  East  Main
 Street, a distance of 50.39' to a point;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   Thence  N  58°32'00"  W,  along the northerly street line of West Main
 Street, a distance of 147.05' to a point;
   Thence  N  30°40'00" E, along the easterly line of lands of the County
 of Genesee, a distance of 133.04' to a point;
   Thence S 59°20'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of  lands  of
 the County of Genesee, a distance of 25.00' to a point;
   Thence  N  30°40'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of lands of
 the County of Genesee, a distance of 120.00' to a point;
   Thence N 59°20'00" W, continuing along the easterly line of  lands  of
 the County of Genesee, a distance of 31.00' to a point;
   Thence  N  30°40'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of lands of
 the County of Genesee and an extension thereof, a distance of 55.00'  to
 a point;
   Thence  S 59°04'00" E a distance of 341.61' to a point on the westerly
 street line of Jefferson Avenue;
   Thence S 30°56'00" W, along the  westerly  street  line  of  Jefferson
 Avenue,  a distance of 83.60' to a point, said point being the northeast
 corner of the Post Office property, said point also being N 30°56'00" E,
 155.00' from the intersection of the northerly street line of East  Main
 Street and the westerly street line of Jefferson Avenue;
   Thence  N  59°04'00"  W,  along  the northerly line of the Post Office
 property, a distance of 140.00' to a point, said point being the  north-
 west corner of the Post Office property;
   Thence S 30°56'00" W, along the westerly line of the Post Office prop-
 erty,  a distance of 207.95' to the point of beginning, containing 1.580
 +/- acres.
   § 4. In the event that  the  city  of  Batavia  received  any  funding
 support  or  assistance  from  the  federal government for the purchase,
 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in  section  three
 of  this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author-
 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur  until  the  city  of
 Batavia  has  complied  with  any federal requirements pertaining to the
 alienation or conversion of such parklands.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.