It is hereby declared that the establishment of public parking
areas, from time to time as may be necessary, is a proper public purpose
which the Village of Malverne, Nassau County, New York, is authorized
to accomplish in order to ensure the orderly growth of the business
district of said Village.
The Village of Malverne, by resolution of the Board of Trustees,
is hereby authorized to improve existing parcels of real property
now owned by the Village for the purpose of providing public parking
facilities and is also hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or
condemnation, parcels of real property and to improve the same to
provide public parking facilities.
The cost of providing such public parking facilities, including
the cost of land acquisition, if any, shall be borne by the entire
Village at large as a general Village charge or entirely by the property
owners benefited thereby or partly as a general Village charge and
partly by the owners of land benefited thereby as shall be provided
by the resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees of said Village
authorizing the issuance of obligations therefor or by such other
resolution as said Board of Trustees shall deem appropriate.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prevent
the financing of the providing of all or part of public parking facilities,
including the acquisition of land, if any, and improvements to land
so acquired or now owned by said Village pursuant to the Local Finance
Law. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as changing any existing
provision of law relating to the exercise of said Village's power
of condemnation or as changing any existing provision of law relating
to assessment of real property or benefit assessments for local improvements.
This article shall take effect immediately.