STATE OF NEW YORK
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10549
IN SENATE
May 20, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT authorizing the town of Mount Pleasant to alienate and discontin-
ue the use of certain parklands
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 town of Mount
2 Pleasant, county of Westchester, is hereby authorized, acting by and
3 through its governing body, and upon such terms and conditions as deter-
4 mined by such governing body, to discontinue the use as parkland and
5 alienate the lands described in section three of this act.
6 § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall only
7 be effective on the condition that the town of Mount Pleasant dedicate
8 an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the park-
9 lands being discontinued toward the acquisition of new parklands and/or
10 capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
11 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
12 tinued as parkland is described as follows:
13 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and
14 located in the Town of Mount Pleasant, County of Westchester, State of
15 New York and bounded and described as follows:
16 Beginning at a point formed by the division line between Lot 42, Block
17 A and the westerly side of Eastview Drive as shown on a map entitled
18 "Subdivision Map Section No. Two, Stonegate" dated Oct. 4, 1965 and
19 filed in the Westchester county Clerk's Office (Division of Land
20 Records) on June 7, 1966 as Map No. 14848, said point being the POINT OF
21 BEGINNING;
22 Thence from said point of beginning along Lot 42, North 73 degrees 35
23 minutes 27 seconds East, a distance of 270.00 feet;
24 Thence along a proposed lot line over property now or formerly Arden
25 Development #2 Corp. (Recreation Area), South 24 degrees 22 minutes 33
26 seconds East, a distance of 165.08 feet;
27 Thence along Lot 43, Block A, South 67 degrees 17 minutes 46 seconds
28 West, a distance of 283.89 feet to a point on the westerly side of East-
29 view Drive;
30 Thence along said westerly side of Eastview Drive Northerly, a
31 distance of 195.01 feet along a non-tangent curve to the right of which
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the radius point lies North 67 degrees 17 minutes 46 seconds East a
2 radius of 1,775.00 feet, and having a central angle of 6 degrees 17
3 minutes 41 seconds to the point and place of BEGINNING.
4 Containing 50,044 square feet or 1.1489 acres, more or less.
5 § 4. Prior to the discontinuance and alienation of parkland described
6 in section three of this act, the town of Mount Pleasant, acting by and
7 through its governing body, shall dedicate replacement land for use as
8 parklands described as follows:
9 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and
10 located in the Town of Mount Pleasant, County of Westchester, State of
11 New York and bounded and described as follows:
12 Beginning at a point formed by the division line between Lot #1
13 (Parcel D), Lot #2 (Parcel B) and the northerly side of East Stevens
14 Avenue as shown on a map entitled "Subdivision Map with Utility Tie-Ins,
15 Kensico Preserve" prepared by CMG Engineering, Surveying and Landscape
16 Architecture, P.C. dated June 14, 2024, last revised June 27, 2025 and
17 filed in the Westchester county Clerk's Office (Division of Land
18 records) on Aug. 7, 2025 as Map No. 29903, said point being the POINT OF
19 BEGINNING;
20 Thence running along the northerly side of East Stevens Avenue, South
21 81 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance of 40.74 feet;
22 Thence South 81 degrees 41 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance of
23 179.35 feet to a point;
24 Thence over and across Lot #1 (Parcel D), North 06 degrees 42 minutes
25 43 seconds West, a distance of 227.49 feet to a point;
26 Thence North 81 degrees 41 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance of
27 220.09 feet to a point on the division line between Lot #1 (Parcel D)
28 and Lot #2 (Parcel B);
29 Thence South 06 degrees 42 minutes 43 seconds East, a distance of
30 227.36 feet to the northerly side of East Stevens Avenue, the point and
31 place of BEGINNING.
32 Containing 50,045 square feet or 1.1489 acres, more or less.
33 § 5. In the event that the fair market value of the parklands to be
34 dedicated by the town of Mount Pleasant described in section four of
35 this act are not equal to or greater than the fair market value of the
36 parklands to be discontinued in section three of this act, the town of
37 Mount Pleasant shall dedicate the difference of the fair market value of
38 the lands to be alienated and the lands to be dedicated for the acquisi-
39 tion of additional parklands and/or capital improvements to existing
40 park and recreational facilities.
41 § 6. In the event that the town of Mount Pleasant received any funding
42 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
43 maintenance, or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
44 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parklands author-
45 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of
46 Mount Pleasant has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to
47 the alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the
48 secretary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies
49 with all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary
50 to assure the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair
51 market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
52 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
