Hearing Set on Rockefeller State Park Land Exchange

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 7 on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed land exchange at Rockefeller State Park.

The hearing will take place at The Gallery at Rockefeller State Park Preserve, 125 Phelps Way, Pleasantville, NY.

State Parks is proposing the land exchange with an adjacent private land owner to protect an important viewshed area within the Rockefeller State Park Preserve and the surrounding area from development.

State Parks proposes to transfer a 6.856-acre parcel of the Preserve to an adjacent private landowner in exchange for a 6.856-acre parcel of from that owner.

State parks officials called it ”highly scenic pastoral land.”

The DEIS is available at: http://nysparks.com/inside-our-agency/master-plans.aspx.

Copies are also available for review at: Warner Library serving Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591; Briarcliff Manor Public Library, 1 Library Rd, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510; and Mount Pleasant Public Library, 350 Bedford Rd, Pleasantville, NY 10570.

Persons may provide comments at the hearing or in writing through Oct. 22. All written comments should be forwarded to one of the following:

• By email to: Plan@parks.ny.gov

• Linda Cooper, AICP, Regional Director, Taconic State Park Region, PO Box 308, 9 Old Post Road, Staatsburg, NY 12580, Phone: (845) 889-4100
• Ron Rausch, Director, Environmental Management Bureau, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Albany, NY 12238, Phone:(518) 474-0409

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation oversees 180 state parks and 35 historic sites, which are visited by 62 million people annually. For more information on any of these recreation areas, call 518-474-0456 or visit www.nysparks.com, connect on Facebook, or follow on Twitter.