Big Tupper hearing delayed again
Adirondack Park Agency officials announced yesterday that the public hearing process for the Adirondack Club and Resort won’t begin until spring or early summer.
Michael Foxman, the developer, had suggested that the APA review might resume this month, following a long period of closed-door mediation talks.
The delay comes just as locals have revived skiing on Big Tupper, which reopened this winter for the first time in 10 years.
Here’s the treatment in today’s Adirondack Daily Enterprise:
“I would say, from what I’m hearing, that it’s a good three months away before it will be submitted,” lead developer Michael Foxman told the Enterprise Thursday.
Pre-hearing conferences to determine the scope of the hearing on the project – which would raze and rebuild the Big Tupper Ski Area and develop the land around it with about 600 luxury housing units, a restaurant and a marina – were originally scheduled to begin sometime in January.
But at Thursday’s state Adirondack Park Agency meeting, Holly Kneeshaw, acting deputy director of regulatory programs, said the agency doesn’t expect the revised maps and reports to be submitted until March or April and the adjudicatory hearing to begin until sometime in the spring.
