2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-B - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › 1299-FF - Formulation, Filing and Adoption of Master Plan; Amendments.

§   1299-ff.   Formulation,   filing  and  adoption  of  master  plan;
  amendments.    The  authority  shall  formulate  a   master   plan   for
  transportation within the district. In formulating such master plan, the
  authority   shall   consult  and  cooperate  with  the  commissioner  of
  transportation and planning authorities in the areas of its  operations,
  and  shall utilize state, local or regional transportation planning. The
  authority shall request and use existing studies, plans,  surveys,  data
  and  other  materials  completed  by  or  under development by any state
  agency or municipality  or  political  subdivision  of  the  state.  The
  authority  shall  file  copies  of  such  plan  with the commissioner of
  transportation, the Genesee-Finger Lakes Regional  Planning  Board,  the
  city  council of the city of Rochester, the legislature of the county of
  Monroe, and with the legislative body of any other  county,  within  the
  district,  affected  by  such  plan, as hereinafter stated, except where
  applications for state or federal aid have been filed for any particular
  transportation undertaking prior to the enactment of  this  legislation.
  The  plan  shall contain information regarding the transportation system
  that the authority intends to provide  including  information  regarding
  the   facilities   connected   therewith,  the  services  the  authority
  contemplates providing and the estimated costs and the  proposed  method
  of financing. During sixty days after the filing of the master plan with
  the  commissioner of transportation, in the Office of the Genesee-Finger
  Lakes Regional  Planning  Board  and  with  the  legislative  bodies  as
  aforesaid,  said  plan  shall  be available for public inspection at the
  office or offices of the authority and at such other places in the areas
  affected, within the district,  as  the  authority  may  designate.  Not
  earlier  than  thirty days after the filing of said master plan with the
  commissioner  of  transportation,  the  Genesee-Finger  Lakes   Regional
  Planning  Board  and  such  legislative bodies, a public hearing on said
  plan shall be held by the authority. Notice of such a hearing  shall  be
  given  to  the  commissioner of transportation, the Genesee-Finger Lakes
  Regional Planning Board and the legislative bodies as aforesaid  and  by
  publication  once  a week for two weeks prior to the said hearing at the
  time  and  place  fixed  by  the  authority  in  newspapers  of  general
  circulation  within the areas affected, to be selected by the authority.
  The last publication date shall not be less than five days  before  said
  hearing. Within thirty days following said public hearing, the authority
  shall  provide  a  transcript  of  such  hearing  to the commissioner of
  transportation, the Genesee-Finger Lakes Regional Planning Board and the
  legislative bodies  as  aforesaid,  together  with  any  amendments  the
  authority  may  propose  to the master plan. The authority shall request
  approval of the master plan, including such amendments as the  authority
  may   propose,  from  the  aforementioned  legislative  bodies  and  the
  commissioner  of  transportation.  Any  part  of  said  plan  which   is
  disapproved  by  a  political  subdivision  because  it  alters existing
  services or the financing  thereof  within  said  political  subdivision
  shall  not  become  operative.  This disapproval of part or parts of the
  plan shall not make the entire plan inoperative. Any part of  said  plan
  which  is  disapproved  by the commissioner of transportation because it
  conflicts with a state-wide comprehensive master plan for transportation
  or the Rochester Metropolitan transportation plan or, in the absence  of
  such  plans,  would  have  an  adverse  effect upon sound transportation
  development policy and planning, shall not become operative. If the said
  legislative bodies or said regional planning board fail  to  act  within
  said  sixty  days  or  in the case of the commissioner of transportation
  within ninety days after approval is requested, said  failure  shall  be
  deemed  approval,  and  the  authority  may  adopt  the master plan by a
  majority vote of  its  membership  and  may  include  changes,  if  any,

  recommended  by  said  commissioner of transportation, planning board or
  said legislative bodies.
The  master  plan  may be amended from time to time in the same manner
  using the procedures outlined herein for the original  adoption,  except
  that  proposed changes made by the authority upon recommendations of the
  commissioner  of  transportation,  said  legislative   bodies   or   the
  Genesee-Finger  Lakes  Regional  Planning Board in the first plan may be
  embodied or continued by  a  majority  vote  of  the  authority  without
  additional  hearings  thereon as required for the amendments proposed to
  be made.