{"id":5849,"date":"2012-04-19T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2012-04-25T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:27:53","slug":"afternoon-read-apa-senior-attorney-banta-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/19\/afternoon-read-apa-senior-attorney-banta-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon read:  APA senior attorney Banta to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5851\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5851\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/19\/afternoon-read-apa-senior-attorney-banta-to-retire\/banta\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5851\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5851\" title=\"banta\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/banta-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/banta-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/banta-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/banta.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Banta, at right, with APA chairwoman Lani Ulrich.  (Photo:  Brian Mann)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chris Knight is reporting at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/530436.html\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> that John Banta, the Adirondack Park Agency&#8217;s senior counsel, will retire at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Banta isn&#8217;t widely known to the general public, but he&#8217;s been one of the most significant players in the evolution of the APA and its legal and regulatory framework since the late 1970s.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/530436.html\">Knight lays out that narrative in the Enterprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past 10 years, Banta has laid the legal groundwork for some  of the agency&#8217;s biggest, and often most controversial, policy decisions,  including restrictions on the size and height of boathouses, a mileage  cap on snowmobile trails on state lands in the Park and the ban on  floatplane access to Lows Lake.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been counsel to the agency during  its review of countless development projects in the Park, from small  subdivisions to the largest project ever to come before the APA board &#8211;  the Adirondack Club and Resort in Tupper Lake, which won agency approval  earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The APA has won several high-profile legal and  enforcement cases during Banta&#8217;s tenure, including a six-year legal  battle over the Spiegel house in Lake Placid and a challenge to tighter  shoreline setback restrictions enacted by the agency. The agency also  lost a prominent case over farmworker housing, with Essex farmer Sandy  Lewis, during Banta&#8217;s tenure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Knight is reporting at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise that John Banta, the Adirondack Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,5583,4817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}