Resolution Information
RESOLUTION TEXT +-
Referred to: The Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit
Committee (Chairman Maloney and Legislators Berky, Delaune, Lapp, Litts, Maio
and Rodriguez)
Legislator David B. Donaldson offers the following:
WHEREAS, Ulster County has a current plan to stop using the rails from the
CSX connection in Mid-Town Kingston to Kingston Plaza; and
WHEREAS, Ulster County has a current plan to include the rail right-of-way
from Cornell Street in Mid-Town Kingston to Kingston Plaza, in a linear park which
includes a trail; and
WHEREAS, the Ulster County rails from Cornell Street in Mid-Town
Kingston to Kingston Plaza are easily connectable to the main railroad lines which
would allow trains to service present and future business transportation needs in MidTown Kingston; and
WHEREAS, the future replacement of rails which were removed
unnecessarily would be expensive and prohibitive; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 275 adopted on August 19, 2014, no
railroad tracks shall be removed in any segment except by resolution of the Ulster
County Legislature; now therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature, as representatives of the
people of Ulster County, requires that the Ulster County linear park trail be designed
and implemented by paving flush to the top of the rails, or surrounding the rails with
trail conversion material flush to the top of the rails, which would allow the
activation of the rails as needed for business development or tourism in the future,
and move its adoption.
ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: NOES:
No Action Taken in Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and
Transit on June 7, 2016
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
NONE
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Updated: January 24, 2019
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