Section 39.13. Cooperation with municipalities, state agencies and public corporations

1. The commission is a cooperative  regional  organization
  established  to  implement  a  greenway based upon the mutual assent and
  participation of each municipality, state agency and public  corporation
  holding  lands under its jurisdiction adjacent to the Niagara river. The
  activities of  the  commission  shall  be  coordinated  with  the  local
  planning  and cultural and park activities of each municipality adjacent
  to the Niagara river.
    2. Each municipality, state agency or public corporation  may  provide
  the commission with the services of its agents, employees and facilities
  without  charge  to  the  commission.  Persons  serving  as  officers or
  employees of the commission may be employees of a municipality  and  the
  commission,  and  the  commission  may  pay  the  municipality an agreed
  portion of the compensation or costs of such officers or employees.
    3. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to affect, impair
  or supersede the provisions of any city  charter,  local  law,  rule  or
  other local requirements and procedures heretofore or hereafter adopted,
  including,  but  not  limited  to,  any  such provisions relating to the
  zoning and use of land.