NY State Senate Bill S6080

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Apr 06, 2021	referred to local government

S6080 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Ogdensburg, City of

S6080 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer real property from the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdensburg.

S6080 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S6080

SPONSOR: RITCHIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act authorizing the commissioner of general services to convey real
property at the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdens-
burg

 
PURPOSE:

To convey certain surplus land at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center to
the city of Ogdensburg.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 authorizes the Commissioner of General Services to convey
certain specified land and improvements situated thereon, at the St.
Lawrence Psychiatric Center, to the city of Ogdensburg.

Section 2 describes the parcels of land at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric

Center which are to be conveyed to the city of Ogdensburg.

Section 3 provides that the description in § 2 of this act is not
intended to be a legal description but is only intended to identify the
premises to be conveyed. It is a condition of purchase that the City of
Ogdensburg submit to the commissioner of general services an accurate
survey and description of the lands generally described here.

Section 4 provides that the commissioner of general services shall not
grant the land description in § two of this act unless application and
improvements is made by the city of Ogdensburg within one year after the
effective date of this act.

Section 5 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center campus covers more than 400 acres,
including extensive frontage along the beautiful St. Lawrence River, and
access to highways and a major international border crossing.  Over the
course of several decades, core services at the facility have been
centralized in just a few of the more than 100 buildings at the site,
and much of the land remains vacant and unused, excluded from develop-
ment and removed from local tax rolls.

Community leaders have long recognized the development potential for
this unused land and buildings, and the City of Ogdensburg proposes to
begin a long-term revitalization program utilizing these neglected
assets. Development of these parcels would transform underutilized
eyesores into major community assets that can help revitalize the North
Country's economy and serve as a model for the rest of the state. The
City envisions redeveloping approximately 160 acres of surplus proper-
ties and buildings, arranged in four distinct sites across the campus,
for mixed use residential, recreational, commercial and industrial
purposes. Because the success of such an ambitious redevelopment plan
will rely on full support and aggressive action by local community
stakeholders, the City seeks transfer of these parcels from the state.

One needs only to look at other recent examples to understand why local
control is critical to the success of redevelopment efforts involving
underused government-owned assets. Two such examples involve the former
Griffiss Air Force Base, and Governor's Island near Lower Manhattan,
where local control is allowing redevelopment after years of delay. Such
a visionary redevelopment effort would benefit Northern New York and St.
Lawrence County by attracting significant private investment, creation
of hundreds of construction and permanent jobs, and returning hundreds
of acres of now-exempt property to local tax rolls

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill. Similar legislation has been introduced in previous legisla-
tive sessions.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S6080 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6080
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to  convey  real
   property at the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdens-
   burg

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The commissioner of  the  office  of  general  services  is
 authorized  and empowered to transfer and convey certain state property,
 as further described in section two of this act, to the city of  Ogdens-
 burg  for  fair  market  value,  upon  such terms and conditions as such
 commissioner may fix and determine. Due to the proximity of the land and
 improvements to be transferred and conveyed to  existing  mental  health
 and  correctional  facilities, said terms and conditions of any transfer
 and conveyance, including the proposed use of said land and improvements
 and the retention, or replacement in kind,  of  existing  staff  housing
 serving  the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center and located on the lands to
 be conveyed, shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of the
 state office of mental health, the commissioner  of  the  department  of
 corrections  and community supervision, and the director of the division
 of budget.
   § 2. The lands authorized by this act to be conveyed consists  of  one
 parcel  of  land  at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, in the city of
 Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, and is generally described as follows:
   Parcel B: 50 acres for residential development bounded  by  the  Saint
 Lawrence  River to the northwest, on the south by River Drive, northeast
 of Bridgeview to include all of the  surplus  land  abutting  the  Saint
 Lawrence  River  between Bridgeview and Trinity buildings NOT to include
 building numbers 10, 13, 17, 31, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 88, 89, or 217.
   § 3. The description in section two of this act of  the  lands  to  be
 conveyed is not intended to be a legal description, but is intended only
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD10791-01-1

 S. 6080                             2
 
 to  identify the premises to be conveyed. As a condition of purchase the
 City of Ogdensburg shall submit to the commissioner  of  the  office  of
 general services for said commissioner's approval an accurate survey and
 description of the lands generally described in section two of this act,
 which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
   §  4.  The  commissioner  of  the office of general services shall not
 grant the land description in section two of this act unless application
 and improvements is made therefor by the city of Ogdensburg  within  one
 year after the effective date of this act.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

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