August 5, 2025 — Community Development Agency

Special Community Development Agency Meeting 8/5/2025
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0:00okay um okay i just said please
0:07yeah i'm gonna call the vote i'm just a little sure get water for going i got it um uh waski
0:18yes maryfield yes kern yes rothwell yes yes resolutions great job no more matters i think
0:28you can close the meeting okay waski yes uh maryfield yes yes rothwell yes hubbard yes
0:40and that's the end of the cda business until next time thanks very much
0:46comments on any matter for the cda comments on any matter for the cda just got the meeting up
0:56somehow the comments on
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1:28that's issued by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.
1:35There's a similar memorandum from the Comptroller's Office,
1:40and this will no doubt turn on the question of is the town square considered parkland or not.
1:49There is language in this which I think could argue to include it.
1:55There's probably other interpretations it would not,
1:59but I think that we have tried to get opinion from the Comptroller's Office.
2:06They referred me to the Parks Office, and I've not yet gotten a response from them.
2:13But I'd note that in the handbook, they say obtaining a parkland alienation bill can be complex and time-consuming.
2:23A municipality should begin work.
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2:55alienation bill etc at any rate there's i've sent it to you um it is i am not making a defined
3:07statement i don't have the basis for doing that but i am saying that i think you need to have
3:11conversations more official conversations with the department of parks and see whether you have a
3:18process that you need to go through to alienate a big some chunk of land both the 127 space and
3:28the land that's being added to that building on both sides and and being alienated to a private
3:37owner so that's just for the record to have it there and hopefully you'll be able to find out
3:43we'll get continue to try to get more information about it okay
3:47all right
3:48so none of those parcels have been formally dedicated as parkland there's been discussed
3:55establishing a town square the formal dedication would happen subsequently when the when the
4:02square is established moreover with respect to 127 that is a occupied commercial building
4:09at this point so there's no there's no indication that that would be parkland
4:13this time is up yeah john you're well over your three okay i
4:18don't know if i can answer that question i don't know if i can answer that question
4:18yeah i mean you have i just think it's more undetermined than that as to how that lands
4:26okay is free ice cream in the town square in seven minutes
4:31oh yeah right
4:32and hamburgers just saying that's right okay having seen no nothing else uh everything finished
4:42up with the cda make them what we i don't know did we close the cda now because we just went to the
4:48cda we did okay we did all right so let's just formally close everything

Full Transcript

okay um okay i just said please yeah i'm gonna call the vote i'm just a little sure get water for going i got it um uh waski yes maryfield yes kern yes rothwell yes yes resolutions great job no more matters i think you can close the meeting okay waski yes uh maryfield yes yes rothwell yes hubbard yes and that's the end of the cda business until next time thanks very much comments on any matter for the cda comments on any matter for the cda just got the meeting up

somehow the comments on public office and public office and public office and public office and public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office public office that's issued by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. There's a similar memorandum from the Comptroller's Office, and this will no doubt turn on the question of is the town square considered parkland or not. There is language in this which I think could argue to include it. There's probably other interpretations it would not, but I think that we have tried to get opinion from the Comptroller's Office. They referred me to the Parks Office, and I've not yet gotten a response from them. But I'd note that in the handbook, they say obtaining a parkland alienation bill can be complex and time-consuming. A municipality should begin work. Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local alienation bill etc at any rate there's i've sent it to you um it is i am not making a defined statement i don't have the basis for doing that but i am saying that i think you need to have conversations more official conversations with the department of parks and see whether you have a process that you need to go through to alienate a big some chunk of land both the 127 space and the land that's being added to that building on both sides and and being alienated to a private owner so that's just for the record to have it there and hopefully you'll be able to find out we'll get continue to try to get more information about it okay all right so none of those parcels have been formally dedicated as parkland there's been discussed establishing a town square the formal dedication would happen subsequently when the when the square is established moreover with respect to 127 that is a occupied commercial building at this point so there's no there's no indication that that would be parkland this time is up yeah john you're well over your three okay i don't know if i can answer that question i don't know if i can answer that question yeah i mean you have i just think it's more undetermined than that as to how that lands okay is free ice cream in the town square in seven minutes oh yeah right and hamburgers just saying that's right okay having seen no nothing else uh everything finished up with the cda make them what we i don't know did we close the cda now because we just went to the cda we did okay we did all right so let's just formally close everything