Developments in Tupper Lake Adirondack Club and Resort project
Big Tupper developer Michael Foxman is expected to appear before a town planning board meeting tonight in Tupper Lake.
Now that the project has moved beyond secret arbitration talks, supporters of the proposed resort are hoping that Foxman and his team will bring forward a new plan for the project.
Volunteers reopened the ski slopes through the winter in part to kick-start the development and give it some momentum.
It’s unclear when the Adirondack Park Agency might take up the permit application once a new plan is made public.
Meanwhile, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting that Foxman’s team will likely try to secure a right of way over part of the Follensby Pond property acquired by the Adirondack Nature Conservancy.
Town attorney David Johnson told the paper that a rarely-used law might allow the developers to secure access.
According to Johnson, “state law allows for a private taking of the right of way if an area will be landlocked.”
“There’s a state law very, very, very rarely used that allows a landowner to go to court to obtain a right to cross,” Johnson said. “It’s a very unusual concept.”
Follensby is a hot-button topic for many environmentalists already suspicious of the AC&R project.
Green groups worry that some of the proposed “great camp” homes in the resort would be located too close to an area that they hope to preserve as wilderness.
Any development in the park would be too close to wilderness areas, according to green groups. There should be no development, no cell towers, no local control, and no job creation in the park.
I second that
Digested bull fodder, scratchy. You can disagree with someone if you wish, and you may be right sometimes, but it isn’t right or fair to misrepresent people’s views. Most (all?) green groups support development within the Park in hamlet designated areas.
Hey, here’s a CRAZY idea! Maybe the owners of the tract would WILLINGLY allow access across their lands so this project could move forward, the tax base be broadened and some jobs created!!!
Nah, you’re right, that’s just nuts……
knuclheadedliberal,
What about Lowes in Ticonderoga? That was in a hamlet and was strongly opposed by many environmentalists.
Less than 1% of the Park’s landmass is classified as hamlet.