For Immediate Release: February 3, 2006
Contact:
Keith P. McKeever | Public Relations | Adirondack Park Agency
contact@apa.ny.gov | (518) 891-4050
RAY BROOK, NY - The Adirondack Park Agency will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on February 9 and 10 at the Agency’s headquarters in Ray Brook, NY.
At 9:15, the State Land Committee will convene for action on the Northampton Beach Campground Intensive Use Area Unit Management Plan (UMP). The campground is located twenty miles north of Amsterdam in the town of Northampton, Fulton County. It lies on the northwest corner of the Great Sacandaga Lake. The plan addresses sanitary improvements, building modernizations, accessibility improvements for persons with disabilities, shoreline stabilization and construction of a facility for popular educational programs. The number of campsites and the size of the day use area will not change.
DEC staff will provide a comprehensive update on the UMP initiative, status report on the Jessup River Wild Forest UMP and a first reading on the Silver Lake Wilderness UMP. APA staff will provide an update on the Gore Mountain Intensive Use Area amendment. The committee will also have a UMP issues discussion on primitive tent sites, roadside camping and snowmobile trail maintenance policy.
At 1:00, the State Land Committee will re-convene for a presentation by Clare Cain, North Country Trail Association, on the planning status for the Adirondack portion of the North Country National Scenic Trail. The North Country National Scenic Trail is a premier footpath that stretches for about 4,400 miles linking communities, forests, and prairies across seven northern states.
At 2:15, the Regulatory Programs Committee will convene for the January status report. Thirty-six permit applications were submitted and eighteen pre-applications filed in January.
At 2:30, the Legal Affairs Committee will meet for a 2005 year in review report.
At 3:00, the Park Policy and Planning Committee will hear a proposal to amend the Official Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map for lands in the Town of St. Armand, Essex County. The proposals would reclassify, from Resource Management to Hamlet, an approximately 160 acre parcel located westerly of Main Street, near the settlement of Bloomingdale.
At 3:30, Michale Glennon and Heidi Kretser of the Wildlife Conservation Society will give a presentation, to the Park Ecology Committee, on the wildlife impacts from exurban development.
On Friday, February 10, the Full Agency will convene at 9:00 for a presentation by the Planning Division. The presentation will highlight the division’s responsibilities and operational procedures.
At 9:30, the Local Government Services and Economic Affairs Committees will meet jointly. The Local Government Services Committee will hear a proposed change to the Town of Lake George Zoning District Map. The Economic Affairs Committee will hear the Economic Services Program Report.
Staff will update both committees on Local Government Day. The Adirondack Park Local Government Day program is scheduled for March 23 and 24, 2006. Affordable and Workforce Housing will be a significant topic. As planned, this year's housing discussions will focus on planning and implementation, and will build on information developed in Local Government Day 2005, the July 2005 Workforce Housing Conference sponsored by Senator Little, and the Agency’s recent informational forums.
The Full Agency will convene at 10:45 to hear committee reports and take actions as appropriate.
MARCH AGENCY MEETING – March 9-10, 2006, Adirondack Park Agency, Ray Brook, New York
APRIL AGENCY MEETING – April 6-7, 2006, Adirondack Park Agency, Ray Brook, New York