For Immediate Release: October 5, 2000
Contact:
Daniel Fitts | Executive Director | Adirondack Park Agency
contact@apa.ny.gov | (518) 891-4050
The Adirondack Park Agency will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on October 12th and 13th. The meeting will be highlighted by a celebration on Friday of the tenth anniversary of the Agency’s visitor interpretive center in Newcomb.
The Agency will convene at 9 a.m. Thursday at its headquarters in Ray Brook to conduct routine business. At 9:15 the Local Government Services Committee will convene to hear a staff presentation describing the relationship between local approved programs and agency review jurisdiction and to consider proposed amendments to the Town of Bolton’s local program. The Committee will also discuss the New York Planning Federation’s model local provisions for towers and the elements of this policy approach. The Administration Committee, scheduled to meet at 10:45, will hear a status report by members of the Strategic Leader Team on implementation of key elements of the Agency’s strategic plan. The Committee will also consider draft policies on a policy, procedures and guidance system, public comment at Agency meetings, and meeting minutes. Committee members will also hear a report on efforts to update the Agency’s comprehensive towers policy.
At 1:00 the Regulatory Programs Committee, in a continuing series of discussion topics, will address "water" as a development consideration in the project review process. The Committee will also consider two projects involving construction of a communications tower on Rattlesnake Mountain in Willsboro, Essex County, and a commercial sand and gravel extraction in Brighton, Franklin County. The recommendation on both projects is to proceed to public hearing.
The State Land Committee will meet at 2:30. It will consider a proposal by the Department of Environmental Conservation involving relocation of the Rock Lake snowmobile trail as part of an amendment to the Blue Mountain Wild Forest Unit Management Plan. The Committee will also receive an update on implementation of the High Peaks Wilderness Complex Unit Management Plan, including efforts by DEC to address bear problems at Marcy Dam and Lake Colden, the Town of Keene parking lot at Marcy Field, and other key elements of the management plan. Also at 2:30, the Enforcement Committee will consider an alleged violation involving an unpermitted wetland fill and waste disposal area in Long Lake, Hamilton County.
On Friday, October 13th, the Agency will convene at its visitor interpretive center in Newcomb at 10 a.m. to receive and act on the committee reports. Immediately thereafter, the public is invited to share in a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Visitor Interpretive Center at Newcomb.
The Agency will next meet at its headquarters in Ray Brook on November 9th and 10th.
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