A 6916: Authorizes the city of Batavia to alienate certain parklands for use as a municipal parking lot and to preserve the historic Brisbane mansion.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6916 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 18, 2025 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the city of Batavia, 2 located in the county of Genesee, acting by and through its governing 3 body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such body, is 4 hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands the lands more particular- 5 ly described in section three of this act, for the purposes of providing 6 free municipal parking and to preserve the historic Brisbane mansion, 7 which currently houses the city police department. 8 § 2. Whereas the parking lot and Brisbane mansion currently occupy the 9 land and are not recreational green space, the city of Batavia is not 10 required to dedicate land of equal or greater fair market value as park- 11 land within the city. 12 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon- 13 tinued as parklands are described as follows: 14 ALL that tract or parcel of land, situate in the City of Batavia, 15 County of Genesee and State of New York, being part of Original Village 16 Lots 15 and 16 and part of the alley adjoining Lot 16 on the east, and 17 more particularly described as follows: 18 Beginning at a point on the northerly street line of East Main Street 19 at the southwest corner of land owned by the United States Government, 20 known as the Post Office property, said point being N 79°47'00" W, 21 149.68' from the intersection of the northerly street line of East Main 22 Street and the westerly street line of Jefferson Avenue; 23 Thence N 79°47'00" W, along the northerly street line of East Main 24 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. LBD10868-01-5 
 A. 6916 2 1 Thence N 58°32'00" W, along the northerly street line of West Main 2 Street, a distance of 147.05' to a point; 3 Thence N 30°40'00" E, along the easterly line of lands of the County 4 of Genesee, a distance of 133.04' to a point; 5 Thence S 59°20'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of lands of 6 the County of Genesee, a distance of 25.00' to a point; 7 Thence N 30°40'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of lands of 8 the County of Genesee, a distance of 120.00' to a point; 9 Thence N 59°20'00" W, continuing along the easterly line of lands of 10 the County of Genesee, a distance of 31.00' to a point; 11 Thence N 30°40'00" E, continuing along the easterly line of lands of 12 the County of Genesee and an extension thereof, a distance of 55.00' to 13 a point; 14 Thence S 59°04'00" E a distance of 341.61' to a point on the westerly 15 street line of Jefferson Avenue; 16 Thence S 30°56'00" W, along the westerly street line of Jefferson 17 Avenue, a distance of 83.60' to a point, said point being the northeast 18 corner of the Post Office property, said point also being N 30°56'00" E, 19 155.00' from the intersection of the northerly street line of East Main 20 Street and the westerly street line of Jefferson Avenue; 21 Thence N 59°04'00" W, along the northerly line of the Post Office 22 property, a distance of 140.00' to a point, said point being the north- 23 west corner of the Post Office property; 24 Thence S 30°56'00" W, along the westerly line of the Post Office prop- 25 erty, a distance of 207.95' to the point of beginning, containing 1.580 26 +/- acres. 27 § 4. In the event that the city of Batavia received any funding 28 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase, 29 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three 30 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author- 31 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the city of 32 Batavia has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the 33 alienation or conversion of such parklands. 34 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.