The New York State Senate

                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5035

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Economic Development

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:

  Section 1. (a) For the purposes  of  this  act,  the  term  "multi-use
trail"  shall  mean  an  off-street  linear  facility for recreation and
transportation, paved or unpaved, designated to serve multiple types  of
users,  including,  but not limited to, bicyclists, pedestrians, in-line
skaters, joggers, cross-country skiers or equestrians.
  (b) The empire state development corporation shall create a plan for a
comprehensive statewide system  of  multi-use  trails  consisting  of  a
network  of  primary  corridors  linked  to and enhanced by regional and
local multi-use trails. The draft plan shall be completed one year after
this act becomes a law. The empire state development  corporation  shall
consult  concurrently  with  representatives  from  the office of parks,
recreation and historic preservation, the  department  of  environmental
conservation, the department of health and the department of transporta-
tion  to  create  such  plan.  A  representative of each agency shall be
appointed by the commissioner of their  respective  agency.  The  empire
state  development  corporation  shall  meet with the representatives of
such agencies at least quarterly.   There shall be  a  sixty-day  public
comment period on such draft plan and there shall be at least one public
hearing  on  the draft plan during such sixty-day public comment period.
The final plan shall be completed and adopted one  hundred  eighty  days
after  submission  of  the draft plan. The plan shall be updated no less
than every five years. Such plan shall include five major components:
  (i) A vision for a statewide network of primary  corridors  linked  to
and  enhanced by regional and local multi-use trails, which will include
trail uses to be addressed in the plan; goals  for  geographic  distrib-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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ution;  goals  for  universal  accessibility;  and general goals for new
trail acquisition and development.
  (ii)  A  Geographic  Information  System  (GIS)  inventory of existing
multi-use trails across the state, as well as planned multi-use  trails,
or  undeveloped  corridors  under  consideration  for  future  multi-use
trails.
  (iii) Identification of new multi-use trail  opportunities  including,
but  not  limited  to, transportation (rail, canal, trolley) corridors -
existing, abandoned or under consideration to be  abandoned;  under-uti-
lized  or  closed roads; utility corridors and natural corridors such as
waterways and waterfronts.
  (iv) A comprehensive set of multi-use trail recommendations, including
but not limited to acquisition and  development  priorities;  guidelines
for  design  and  maintenance  of  different  "tier" (primary, regional,
local) multi-use trails; guidelines for wayfinding, marketing and inter-
pretive  signs  and  informational  resources,  such  as  statewide  and
regional  maps  of existing multi-use trails, to promote the use of such
trails and their coordination with other tourism  opportunities  in  New
York state.
  (v) Recommendations for funding the acquisition, construction, mainte-
nance, and promotion of multi-use trails as well as implementation.
  (c)  The  office  of  parks, recreation and historic preservation, the
department of environmental conservation, the department of health,  the
department  of transportation and any other state agencies, departments,
public authorities or programs  with  relevant  expertise  or  resources
shall provide the empire state development corporation with such facili-
ties,  assistance,  and data as will enable the empire state development
corporation to carry out its powers and duties. The empire state  devel-
opment  corporation  will have primary responsibility for implementation
of the plan created pursuant to the provisions of this act, provided the
costs of implementation have been  appropriated  or  identified  by  the
chairperson of the empire state development corporation.
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 5035--A

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FAHY, McDONALD, ENGLEBRIGHT, STECK, BURKE --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once  and  referred  to
  the  Committee  on  Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill
  amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
  tee

AN  ACT  to require the empire state development corporation to create a
  plan regarding non-motorized multi-use trails

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  (a) For the purposes of this act, the term "non-motorized
multi-use trail" shall mean an off-street linear facility for recreation
and transportation, paved or unpaved, designated to serve multiple types
of non-motorized users,  including,  but  not  limited  to,  bicyclists,
pedestrians, in-line skaters, joggers, cross-country skiers or equestri-
ans.
  (b) The empire state development corporation shall create a plan for a
comprehensive   statewide   system  of  non-motorized  multi-use  trails
consisting of a network of non-motorized primary corridors linked to and
enhanced by regional and local non-motorized multi-use trails. The draft
plan shall be completed one year after  this  act  becomes  a  law.  The
empire  state  development  corporation  shall consult concurrently with
representatives from the office of parks, recreation and historic  pres-
ervation,  the  department of environmental conservation, the department
of health and the department of transportation to create  such  plan.  A
representative  of each agency shall be appointed by the commissioner of
their respective agency. The empire state development corporation  shall
meet  with  the  representatives  of  such  agencies at least quarterly.
There shall be a sixty-day public comment period on such draft plan  and
there shall be at least one public hearing on the draft plan during such
sixty-day  public  comment period. The final plan shall be completed and
adopted one hundred eighty days after submission of the draft plan.  The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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plan  shall  be  updated  no less than every five years. Such plan shall
include five major components:
  (i)  A  vision for a statewide network of non-motorized primary corri-
dors linked to and enhanced by regional and local  non-motorized  multi-
use  trails,  which will include trail uses to be addressed in the plan;
goals for geographic distribution; goals  for  universal  accessibility;
and general goals for new trail acquisition and development.
  (ii)  A Geographic Information System (GIS) inventory of existing non-
motorized multi-use trails across the state, as well as planned  non-mo-
torized  multi-use  trails, or undeveloped corridors under consideration
for future non-motorized multi-use trails.
  (iii) Identification of new  non-motorized  multi-use  trail  opportu-
nities including, but not limited to, transportation (rail, canal, trol-
ley)  corridors - existing, abandoned or under consideration to be aban-
doned; under-utilized or closed roads;  utility  corridors  and  natural
corridors such as waterways and waterfronts.
  (iv)  A comprehensive set of non-motorized multi-use trail recommenda-
tions, including but not limited to acquisition and development  priori-
ties;  guidelines for design and maintenance of different "tier" (prima-
ry, regional, local)  non-motorized  multi-use  trails;  guidelines  for
wayfinding,   marketing   and   interpretive   signs  and  informational
resources, such as statewide and regional maps of existing non-motorized
multi-use trails, to promote the use of such trails  and  their  coordi-
nation with other tourism opportunities in New York state.
  (v) Recommendations for funding the acquisition, construction, mainte-
nance, and promotion of non-motorized multi-use trails as well as imple-
mentation.
  (c)  The  office  of  parks, recreation and historic preservation, the
department of environmental conservation, the department of health,  the
department  of transportation and any other state agencies, departments,
public authorities or programs  with  relevant  expertise  or  resources
shall provide the empire state development corporation with such facili-
ties,  assistance,  and data as will enable the empire state development
corporation to carry out its powers and duties. The empire state  devel-
opment  corporation  will have primary responsibility for implementation
of the plan created pursuant to the provisions of this act, provided the
costs of implementation have been  appropriated  or  identified  by  the
chairperson of the empire state development corporation.
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.