For Immediate Release: March 1, 2007
Contact:
Keith P. McKeever | Public Relations | Adirondack Park Agency
contact@apa.ny.gov | (518) 891-4050
RAY BROOK, NY – The Adirondack Park Agency extends time clock for Adirondack Club and Resort. The Adirondack Park Agency and the Adirondack Club and Resort project sponsors have mutually agreed to extend the deadline for the project sponsors to consider the Agency’s February 15, 2007 action, which ordered the Adirondack Club and Resort project to an adjudicatory public hearing.
In a letter addressed to the applicants lawyer the Agency indicated, “The voluntary suspension of the Agency’s regulatory time frame will provide additional time for the applicant and its consultants to consider changes to the project intended to mitigate potential impacts and narrow issues.” A Public Hearing Notice will be released describing any revised sponsor proposals, the timeframe for public comment and how to petition for party status for the adjudicatory hearing.
The 15-day clock for the applicant’s response to the Notice of Intent is extended to March 16, 2007. The 90-day clock for commencement of the public hearing is extended to April 19, 2007.
Project background: The Adirondack Club and Resort is a "planned resort development" including a ski center, marina, shooting school, 60-unit inn, 675 single family and multiple family residential dwelling units and 24 great camp lots. The Village of Tupper Lake municipal water system and two on-site wastewater treatment plants would service the proposed site. The Village of Tupper Lake municipal electric system would provide electric service to the site and the roads servicing the site would become Town roads. Funding for the infrastructure (i.e., water, wastewater, electric and roads) is proposed to be financed by bonds issued through the Franklin County Industrial Development Agency. A payment-in-lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement with local taxing jurisdictions has been proposed.
The project site is located in the Town of Tupper Lake, Franklin County. The site, 6,400± acres, includes lands within the former Big Tupper Ski Area (500± acres), the surrounding Oval Wood Dish landholdings (5,900± acres) and the former McDonald's Marina (1± acre). Most of the site is located east of NYS Route 30, except for the marina and two other small parcels that are west of Route 30. The site includes about 1,800± feet of frontage on Simon Pond and 235± feet on Big Tupper Lake at the marina.