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Adirondack Citizen says: Reform APA Now
The latest news on the Lewis Farm case is yet more evidence that the APA is in need of immediate and thorough reform. The current Agency culture wreaks of intellectual superiority, deference to enviro-elitists, patronizing attitudes and condescension toward working Adirondackers.
Actions over the past few years reveal an Agency consistently exceeding the scope of the APA Act in an effort to expand its authority by fiat, with a measured incrementalism so far from random it could only be choreographed.
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Judge: APA case not justified, must pay farm’s legal fees
from the Glens Falls Post-Star
from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise
from the Plattsburgh Press-Republican
A flood of new costs
The public benefit corporation that prevents floods along the Hudson River by regulating the flow in major tributaries lost the source of most of its revenue in a court decision in late 2008.
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Hornbeck APA nomination rocks the boat
The nomination of Olmsteadville canoe maker Peter Hornbeck to a seat on the state Adirondack Park Agency Board of Commissioners has been held up in the state Senate amid local-government concerns about him being an environmental group board member.
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Interesting questions…
Some thoughts about paying for the Adirondack Park, by Brian Mann
Here are two basic questions that no one has ever answered to my satisfaction:
1. What does it cost communities to be surrounded by the Adirondack Park?
2. What does the state do to compensate those communities?
> read the article at NCPR
When the money runs out…
> EPF underfunded say environmentalists
Adirondack Citizen says: Everyone is for cutting the State budget, until it affects them directly. At that point they feel like their getting screwed. The irony and hypocrisy are laughable. New York’s profligate spending has been driving us into an abyss for decades and NOW people want to complain??? Get real.Review board takes a stand on call to abolish APA
by Fred Monroe
The Local Government Review Board does not believe that the APA should be abolished. We do believe that the APA needs to be reined in and its governing Act revised. Very clear evidence of this need is seen in recent cases where the Adirondack Park Agency threatened or attempted an enforcement action that was dropped or overturned:
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Land purchase moratorium proposed
Gov. David Paterson, in his state budget proposal on Tuesday, called for a one-year moratorium on forest preserve and open space acquisitions.
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