Directs the department of transportation to conduct a traffic and planning study on the feasibility of transforming the Harriman campus in connection with the…

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Patricia Fahy says this is needed

Governor Hochul's Fiscal Year 2023-2024 budget provides a $1.7 billion investment to consolidate and upgrade the world-renowned Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory at the Harriman State Office Campus Complex (the "Harriman Campus") in the City of Albany. This builds on the state's previous investment of $750 million included in previous years' enacted budgets. This investment - to create a new state-of-the-art public health labora- tory at the Harriman Campus - has the potential to serve as the key spark in leveraging more science and research investment in the area and bring about the creation of a Capital Region research triangle, one that is located within a transformed eastern Harriman Campus and fully inte- grated with the City of Albany. .Thus, in order to fully realize the potential of this investment, there is a need that an updated traffic and planning study to be commissioned to help. transform the Eastern end of the Harriman Campus to help better connect and integrate the campus and the overall project into the City of Albany, while gaining addi- tional acreage for mixed-use development, green space, and multi-modal transportation. In furtherance of this goal, this legislation requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a traffic and planning study to determine the feasibility of transforming the eastern end of the Harriman campus in connection with the relocation of the Wadsworth Laboratory at the Harri- man Campus and to issue a report on the findings of such study.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.