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.