Bill Text: NY S01339 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Dedicates and designates Jerome Park as parklands of the city of New York and establishes a working group for such park to enhance the use thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01339 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01339-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1339--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Cultural
          Affairs,  Tourism, Parks and Recreation in accordance with Senate Rule
          6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to dedicate and designate Jerome Park as parkland of the city of
          New York, and to establish a working group for such  park  to  enhance
          use thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative  intent.  The  legislature  hereby  finds  that
     2  Jerome  Park,  located around the Jerome Park reservoir, that is located
     3  in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York, has been  used  for
     4  numerous  outdoor recreational and open space purposes for over a centu-
     5  ry. Furthermore, such park has the potential to  incorporate  additional
     6  urban  wildlife  sanctuary, outdoor recreational and open space uses for
     7  the betterment of the local community. Through the  auspices  of  master
     8  plans  authorized and approved by the parks and recreation department of
     9  the city of New York and work by community groups  such  as  the  Jerome
    10  Park  Conservancy  and  the Friends of Jerome Park, it is a sound public
    11  policy and community benefit to advance the increased use of Jerome Park
    12  for additional outdoor recreational and open space uses and to integrate
    13  such park functions with the adjacently located Fort Independence  Park.
    14  Going forward, key elements of the future design of the park should help
    15  to  preserve its historic essence, reveal its potential as public space,
    16  and link places and events with the park to the  surrounding  community.
    17  Finally,  such future development of Jerome Park should frame the beauty
    18  of the reservoir with a new layer of landscape and purpose.
    19    § 2. To achieve the legislative intent articulated in section  one  of
    20  this act, all lands that are contained in Jerome Park, which are located
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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