In order to ensure the proper protection, conduct,
safety, health and general welfare of its residents and inhabitants
and to provide for the proper care, management and use of its highways,
roads, streets and property, the Town Board of the Town of Kent, Putnam
County, New York, finds it in the public interest to eliminate a public
safety hazard arising from the encroachment of a dwelling onto the
right-of-way of Rockwood Road by designating a portion of Rockwood
Road for one-way traffic and by erecting a barrier parallel to that
portion of Rockwood Road which said dwelling obstructs.
This Article is enacted pursuant to the provisions
of the New York State Constitution, the Municipal Home Rule Law, the
Town Law, the Vehicle and Traffic Law and the Code of the Town of
Kent.