Section 2654. Schenectady metroplex service district  


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  • 1. The Schenectady
      metroplex service district shall include all real  property  within  the
      county  of Schenectady, from the Albany county/Schenectady county border
      to  the  Montgomery  county/Schenectady  county   border,   and   within
      thirty-five  hundred  feet  of  Route 5, except from the intersection of
      Route 5/State Street and Brandywine Avenue to the intersection of  Route
      5/Mohawk  Avenue and Route 147/Sacandaga Road, whereupon the Schenectady
      metroplex service  district  shall  include  all  real  property  within
      eighty-seven  hundred  fifty feet of Route 5. The service district shall
      also include all real property within Schenectady county from  the  town
      of    Rotterdam/city    of   Schenectady   border   to   the   Schoharie
      county/Schenectady  county  border  and  within   the   boundaries   and
      accompanying right of way of state Route 7; and all real property within
      two hundred feet of Chrisler Avenue in the city of Schenectady except as
      excluded by subdivision two of this section.
        2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless amended pursuant
      to  local  law,  the  Schenectady  metroplex  service district shall not
      include any parcel of real property upon which a  non-multiple  dwelling
      residence  is  located  in  the  city  of  Schenectady  and  within  the
      boundaries of the historic GE realty plot district,  the  Union  College
      Triangle,  the  Mont  Pleasant  neighborhood association, or any defined
      neighborhood within the Schenectady united neighborhood associations.
        3. The  Stockade  Historic  District  shall  be  included  within  the
      Schenectady  Metroplex  Service District for the purposes of the design,
      development,  planning,  financing,  creation,   siting,   construction,
      renovation, administration, operation, management, and/or maintenance of
      facilities,  structures or parks as defined in paragraphs (e), (f), (g),
      (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of subdivision eight  of  section  twenty-six
      hundred fifty-five of this title.
        4.  Any municipality located within the county shall have the power to
      increase the boundaries of the Schenectady  metroplex  service  district
      within  the  municipality.  To  increase  the  boundaries of the service
      district within a municipality, the municipality must conduct  a  public
      hearing  and  enact  by  a  two-thirds  vote  a  local  law defining the
      additional boundaries of such district.  In  the  event  a  municipality
      elects to increase the boundaries of the service district, two certified
      copies  of  the local law increasing the service district, together with
      two certified maps designating such increased boundaries shall be  filed
      with the office of the chairman of the Schenectady metroplex development
      authority.  Within  ten  days of the filing of such certified copies and
      maps with the office  of  the  chairman  of  the  Schenectady  metroplex
      development  authority,  such  chairman shall file one certified copy of
      such local law and one certified copy of such map with the  commissioner
      of  the New York state department of taxation and finance. The territory
      and boundaries of the Schenectady metroplex development service district
      shall not be required to be contiguous.