Section 41.09. Management plan

1.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of
  section 35.05 of this title, the management plan shall:
    (a) Designate the specific boundaries of the Michigan  Street  African
  American  Heritage  Corridor  as  depicted  on  a  map  accompanying the
  management plan;
    (b) Develop a vision, goals and objectives for the  heritage  corridor
  that  focus  on  ensuring  the  educational  benefit  to  the public and
  prohibiting incompatible uses within the heritage corridor;
    (c) Create an inventory of  existing  land  and  buildings  under  the
  jurisdiction of the state, public corporations, and the city of Buffalo;
    (d)   Create  an  inventory  of  privately  owned  existing  land  and
  buildings;
    (e) Identify other land and  buildings  that  can  contribute  to  the
  purposes of the heritage corridor;
    (f)  Recommend  how  the  heritage  corridor  could be linked to other
  historic amenities and commercial assets and describe the techniques  or
  means  of preservation and protection of historic and cultural resources
  within the heritage corridor;
    (g) Evaluate how economic development activities in proximity  to  the
  heritage corridor can support, complement and sustain the development of
  the heritage corridor;
    (h)  Describe the organization structure to be utilized for long range
  planning, development and management of  the  heritage  corridor  for  a
  minimum    of    ten   years,   including   the   responsibilities   and
  interrelationships  of  local,  regional  and  state  agencies  in   the
  management  process  and  a  program to provide maximum feasible private
  participation in the implementation of the management plan;
    (i) Include a plan for the development of the heritage corridor as  an
  academic  destination,  which  can provide opportunities for educational
  programs, including advanced scholarly  research  for  students  of  all
  educational  backgrounds.  Such plan may include, but not be limited to,
  academic symposia, lectures, archive  collections,  library  collections
  and a museum;
    (j)  Include  an  economic assessment of the long and short term costs
  and benefits related to the establishment, operation and maintenance  of
  the  heritage  corridor, including a comprehensive estimate of the costs
  of implementing the management plan identified by source of funding  and
  specifically  delineating  expected  state,  local,  federal and private
  contributions;
    (k) Include a marketing plan, which includes measures to target  niche
  market  travelers  and  scholars.  Such  plan  must  include  supporting
  evidence for targeting and should  consider  out-of-state  marketing  as
  allowable for in budgeting; and
    (l) Make recommendations for the on-going operation and maintenance of
  the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor.
    2.  The  draft  management plan shall be submitted to the commissioner
  for approval within four years of the effective date  of  this  article.
  Prior  to  submitting  the  plan  to  the  commissioner, the legislative
  representative body of the city of Buffalo must approve  the  plan.  The
  legislative  body  of  the city of Buffalo, at its discretion and in the
  interest of expediting the local approval process, shall hold two public
  meetings at any time during the local approval process. The commissioner
  may approve the plan,  may  return  the  plan  to  the  commission  with
  recommendations  for  approval,  or  may  reject the plan. A copy of the
  approved plan shall be provided to the governor, the temporary president
  of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.
    3. Selected  individual  requirements  or  portions  thereof  for  the
  management  plan  submissions may be waived by the commissioner provided

  that prior submissions to the office during a previous planning  process
  are judged sufficient to fulfill the purpose of the management plan.
    4. Approval of the management plan by the commissioner shall establish
  eligibility  for the receipt of acquisition, development and programming
  assistance from the state  heritage  area  program  within  the  defined
  heritage corridor boundaries. Nothing in this article shall prohibit the
  commission  from  making application for other grant programs or sources
  of funding.
    * NB Repealed April 30, 2012