DEP Environmental Protection Invoices, 1999-2001

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Misc, 727 (Sup. Ct., Schenectady Co. foreign trade zone invalidated); Matter of Central Parkway, 140 detached to build a parkway invalidated 1931) (local ordinance that allowed a strip of parkland to be Pallas, 47 Misc. 309 (Sup. Ct.,. N.Y. in the absence of State legislative approval); Tompkins v. advertisements to be placed on a temporary Co.1905) (Parks Commissioner lacked authority to allow during construction of library), fence that had been properly erected for safety purposes in Bryant Park Parks Commissioner to lease This case does not present an issue as to the power of the City's parkland is conveyed by the WTP parkland to a private commercial entity, as inMiller. No interest in Ackerman or Stephenson, where project. Nor does this case present an issue, such as in The temporary disruption of characterizations ofthe non-park use as "temporary" were subterfuges. construction of an otherwise parkland, even for the relatively lengthy period to be involved litre, for alienation of parkland where the permissible public project is not prohibited by the doctrine against for non-park use. Interference with temporary disruption is not a subterfuge for a diversion ofparkland construction of the WTP and restoration public itse of parkland will be limited to the time nccessaryfor construction, large areas of parkland and other of the surface. Moreover, even during the height of Park and other local areas of greenery open space will remain, with all of the rest of Van Cortlandt Council, in approving the project, available for use by residents and the general public. And the City Department to ameliorate the effects directed that approximately 520 millionbe transferred to the Parks the site of the project, its immediate vicinity, of the construction and to preserve, restore and improve

and Van Cortlandt Park generally. the City to obtain approval of The AG acknowledges that there is no case law which requires infrastructure beneath its parkland. It not the State Legislature before the City can install its own is

that benefit the City generally and disputed that underneath City parkland are many non•park facilities

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