Complex sentence: The depot land is New York's largest block of land available for development and plans to buy 4,700 acres of the land to build an ethanol and biofuel electricity production center and to plant crops of willow trees and switch grass to be converted into fuel was proposed.
Split into simpler sentences: The depot land is New York's largest block of land available for development and some new uses have been found for the land. Plans to buy 4,700 acres of land to build an ethanol and biofuel electricity production center and to plant crops of willow trees and switch grass to be converted into fuel was proposed.