NY Catskill Park — State Land Master Plan Geographic Overlay (NY)
Tracked preemption from the New York overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1985-01-01
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:NY
Other New York preemptions
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Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
city.is_in_catskill_park == TruePreempted fields
1 field on the base district schema is rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
base_districts[*].catskill_park_development_restrictions | override | True | Catskill Park lands (~700,000 acres across Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster counties) are governed by the Catskill State Land Master Plan (state-owned Forest Preserve) and by DEC jurisdiction over stream and wetland disturbance on the surrounding private land matrix. |
Citation
Authority source
NY Environmental Conservation Law Article 9 (Forest Preserve); Catskill State Land Master Plan (DEC, most recently revised 2008)
§ ECL Art. 9 + Catskill SLMP
Research notes
Unlike the Adirondack Park Agency, the Catskill Park has no single regulatory agency with zoning jurisdiction over private land — the preemption effect comes from NYS DEC stream/wetland permitting and from the Forest Preserve's constitutional 'forever wild' protection of state-owned parcels (NY Const. Art. XIV §1). Document as a soft-geographic overlay; local zoning generally controls on private land within the Park.