LAKE PLACID — This village will host a public hearing Monday at 7 p.m. at the North Elba Town Hall about its plans to use eminent domain to acquire property owned by the Adirondack Museum to build a municipal parking garage.

The museum’s property is located at 2476-2478 Main St., next to the village’s municipal parking lot commonly referred to as the “NBT Bank lot.”

At a village board meeting last month, Mayor Craig Randall said the village intends to construct a new parking garage at a location spanning the NBT Bank lot and a narrow parcel owned by the museum. But Randall added the museum and the village had not yet agreed on a price for the piece of land, resulting in the village pursuing acquiring the land via eminent domain. The village said it wants to take the property to serve an “approved and established public purpose.”

Village Clerk Ellen Clark said the attorney and engineer representing the village will be available prior to Monday’s hearing at 6:30 p.m. in the town hall to answer any questions.

At the board meeting last month, Randall said the parcel of land where the parking garage would reside includes 66 feet of frontage on Main Street, 60 feet of which is encumbered by the village, and stretches back about 250 to 300 feet from Main Street. The rest of the property is owned by the Adirondack Museum on a narrow, currently vacant lot between the village’s ramp to the upper parking lot and the ADK Outlet. The lot once had a Church of the Nazarene, now demolished. The museum hoped to build a Lake Placid branch here, but abandoned tht plan amid budget tightening and rejection of the ambitious architectural design by the local review board.

Randall also said last month the village and museum had been negotiating on and off for several years — most recently in January.

Village attorney Janet Bliss said last month the hearing would consist of a short presentation by the village and an engineer outlining a presentation of facts as to why it believes there is a public need for the property. Members of the public will be afforded the opportunity to express opinions via oral and written statements. Bliss added that it is possible sometime in the future, even with the hosting of the public hearing on Monday, that the village and Adirondack Museum could come to an agreement on a sale of the parcel.