Bill Text: NY S04416 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to create a plan regarding non-motorized multi-use trails in consultation with the department of environmental conservation, the department of health and the department of transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-20 - SIGNED CHAP.516 [S04416 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4416
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions
        AN  ACT  to require the empire state development corporation to create a
          plan regarding multi-use trails
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  (a)  For  the  purposes  of this act, the term "multi-use
     2  trail" shall mean an  off-street  linear  facility  for  recreation  and
     3  transportation,  paved or unpaved, designated to serve multiple types of
     4  users, including, but not limited to, bicyclists,  pedestrians,  in-line
     5  skaters, joggers, cross-country skiers or equestrians.
     6    (b) The empire state development corporation shall create a plan for a
     7  comprehensive  statewide  system  of  multi-use  trails  consisting of a
     8  network of primary corridors linked to  and  enhanced  by  regional  and
     9  local multi-use trails. The draft plan shall be completed one year after
    10  this  act  becomes a law. The empire state development corporation shall
    11  consult concurrently with representatives  from  the  office  of  parks,
    12  recreation  and  historic  preservation, the department of environmental
    13  conservation, the department of health and the department of transporta-
    14  tion to create such plan. A  representative  of  each  agency  shall  be
    15  appointed  by  the  commissioner  of their respective agency. The empire
    16  state development corporation shall meet  with  the  representatives  of
    17  such  agencies  at  least quarterly.   There shall be a sixty-day public
    18  comment period on such draft plan and there shall be at least one public
    19  hearing on the draft plan during such sixty-day public  comment  period.
    20  The  final  plan  shall be completed and adopted one hundred eighty days
    21  after submission of the draft plan. The plan shall be  updated  no  less
    22  than every five years. Such plan shall include five major components:
    23    (i)  A  vision  for a statewide network of primary corridors linked to
    24  and enhanced by regional and local multi-use trails, which will  include
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09167-01-9
        S. 4416                             2
     1  trail  uses  to  be addressed in the plan; goals for geographic distrib-
     2  ution; goals for universal accessibility;  and  general  goals  for  new
     3  trail acquisition and development.
     4    (ii)  A  Geographic  Information  System  (GIS)  inventory of existing
     5  multi-use trails across the state, as well as planned multi-use  trails,
     6  or  undeveloped  corridors  under  consideration  for  future  multi-use
     7  trails.
     8    (iii) Identification of new multi-use trail  opportunities  including,
     9  but  not  limited  to, transportation (rail, canal, trolley) corridors -
    10  existing, abandoned or under consideration to be  abandoned;  under-uti-
    11  lized  or  closed roads; utility corridors and natural corridors such as
    12  waterways and waterfronts.
    13    (iv) A comprehensive set of multi-use trail recommendations, including
    14  but not limited to acquisition and  development  priorities;  guidelines
    15  for  design  and  maintenance  of  different  "tier" (primary, regional,
    16  local) multi-use trails; guidelines for wayfinding, marketing and inter-
    17  pretive  signs  and  informational  resources,  such  as  statewide  and
    18  regional  maps  of existing multi-use trails, to promote the use of such
    19  trails and their coordination with other tourism  opportunities  in  New
    20  York state.
    21    (v) Recommendations for funding the acquisition, construction, mainte-
    22  nance, and promotion of multi-use trails as well as implementation.
    23    (c)  The  office  of  parks, recreation and historic preservation, the
    24  department of environmental conservation, the department of health,  the
    25  department  of transportation and any other state agencies, departments,
    26  public authorities or programs  with  relevant  expertise  or  resources
    27  shall provide the empire state development corporation with such facili-
    28  ties,  assistance,  and data as will enable the empire state development
    29  corporation to carry out its powers and duties. The empire state  devel-
    30  opment  corporation  will have primary responsibility for implementation
    31  of the plan created pursuant to the provisions of this act, provided the
    32  costs of implementation have been  appropriated  or  identified  by  the
    33  chairperson of the empire state development corporation.
    34    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.