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.
Last modified: February 3, 2019