The New York State Department of State Coastal Management Program / STATE COASTAL POLICIES / Policy 19 / Protect, maintain, and increase the level and types of access to public water related recreation resources and facilities.
Guidelines:
1) The existing access from adjacent or proximate public lands or facilities to public water related recreation resources and facilities shall not be reduced, nor shall the possibility of increasing access in the future from adjacent or proximate public lands or facilities to public water related recreation resources and facilities be eliminated, unless in the latter case, estimates of future use of these resources and facilities are too low to justify maintaining or providing increased public access, or unless such actions are found to be necessary by the public body having jurisdiction over such access as the result of a reasonable justification of the need to meet system-wide objectives.
The former Village of Angola Water Treatment Plant, now a vacant building that was zoned Recreational Facility, is described in the County Parks Master Plan and the Town’s LWRP as future public use. As such, the protections under Policy 19 apply.
