{"id":6060,"date":"2012-05-30T05:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2012-05-30T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:56:14","slug":"morning-read-responding-to-the-adirondack-club-and-resort-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/05\/30\/morning-read-responding-to-the-adirondack-club-and-resort-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Responding to the Adirondack Club and Resort lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackalmanack.com\/2012\/05\/phil-brown-apa-replies-to-tupper-lake-suit.html\">Phil Brown from the Adirondack Explorer reported late yesterday<\/a> in the Adirondack Almanack that the Adirondack Park Agency and the developers of the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort in Tupper Lake have responded to the lawsuit over the project filed by Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n<p>Brown reports that a key argument in the suit hinges on how you interpret language dealing with residential development on private land in the Park zoned for &#8220;resource management&#8221; use.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the nut of the issue, according to Brown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plan states that that residential development is allowed on RM  land \u201con substantial acreages or in small clusters on carefully selected  and well-designed sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That appears to be an either\/or proposition, or at least so I  thought. After the APA board approved the project in January, I asked  agency officials which of the two criteria was met. Would the lot sizes  amount to \u201csubstantial acreages\u201d? Or would the homes be arranged in  \u201csmall clusters\u201d? Or perhaps some of both?<\/p>\n<p>I could not get a clear answer from the APA. Protect and the Sierra  Club, however, contend that the project meets neither criterion. \u201cThere  is nothing optional about this statutory language,\u201d they assert in the  lawsuit. \u201cIt is not conceptual guidance. It is a mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the APA and the developers, Preserve Associates, are arguing in  their answers to the lawsuit that the either\/or language does not  constitute a legal requirement. The APA denies the complainants\u2019  assertion without elaboration. The developers quote extensively from the  testimony of Mark Sengenberger, the former deputy director of  regulatory programs at the APA.<\/p>\n<p>In his testimony, Sengenberger calls the two criteria \u201cimportant  considerations for reducing impacts rather than as inflexible mandates  that may or may not make sense in a given factual context or for a given  applicant.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you go.\u00a0 Check out Brown&#8217;s full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackalmanack.com\/2012\/05\/phil-brown-apa-replies-to-tupper-lake-suit.html\">in the Almanack here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Brown from the Adirondack Explorer reported late yesterday in the Adirondack Almanack that the [&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":[5693,22,10,6703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060"}],"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=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}