2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-B - Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority › 2654 - Schenectady Metroplex Service District.

§  2654.  Schenectady  metroplex service district.  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.