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