N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 57-0109: Establishment of Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve; core preservation area and compatible growth area

§ 57-0109. Establishment of Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve;

core preservation area and compatible growth area.

1. The region encompassing and distinguished by the Peconic Bay

system, lands which gather and transmit precipitation as either

groundwater or runoff into the Peconic Bay system, lands characterized

by the growth of pitch pine, dwarf pine and/or scrub oak pine barrens

including lands currently under the review and jurisdiction of the

Suffolk county Pine Barrens review commission and lands used in

traditional patterns for agriculture, finfishing, shellfishing and

tourism and made up of all lands and waters located in the towns of

Riverhead, Southold, Shelter Island, Southampton and East Hampton and

the portion of the town of Brookhaven east of a north south line defined

by extending County Road 83 to the northern most and southern most

extension to their respective water boundaries of Brookhaven town and

the town's incorporated villages is hereby established and designated to

be the Long Island Pine Barrens Maritime reserve.

2. Within the reserve and within forty-five days of the effective date

of this subdivision, the commission shall file with the secretary of

state the maps of the Central Pine Barrens area classifying and

depicting the core preservation area as defined, which comprises the

largest essentially intact areas of undeveloped pine barrens ecology,

and the compatible growth area where appropriate patterns of development

and regional growth shall be permitted and shall file a certified copy

thereof with the county clerk of Suffolk county and the clerk of each

town or village whose boundaries are included within the Central Pine

Barrens area. Notice of the filing and availability of such map shall be

published at least twice in the paper of general circulation in the

county of Suffolk. An affected property owner may petition the

commission for precise delineation or adjustment of boundary as it

applies to the affected property. The commission shall have

discretionary powers to modify the boundaries of the core preservation

area by up to three hundred feet as circumstances warrant after

notification to the affected property owner or owners, except no

boundary defined by a state or county highway or navigable waterway

shall be modified to extend beyond such highway or waterway.