{"id":6238,"date":"2012-07-06T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:39:14","slug":"morning-read-a-better-way-to-protect-the-adirondack-parks-private-open-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/07\/06\/morning-read-a-better-way-to-protect-the-adirondack-parks-private-open-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  A better way to protect the Adirondack Park&#8217;s private open space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackexplorer.org\/stories\/2012\/06\/21\/future-of-open-space\/\">Phil Brown in the Adirondack Explorer magazine looks in-depth this month<\/a> at the big question of whether current Adirondack Park Agency rules do enough to protect privately owned backcountry and timberland inside the blue line.<\/p>\n<p>His research found that even with current zoning rules and conservation easements, tens of thousands of additional homes could still be built on lands designated for &#8220;rural use&#8221; or &#8220;resource management.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That full build-out potential makes a lot of environmentalists nervous, as you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Brown also found surprisingly broad consensus that it would be a good idea to transfer more of those development rights away from the deep backcountry, concentrating new home construction instead closer to existing hamlets.<\/p>\n<p>Local leaders and environmentalists &#8220;favor the use of transferable development rights to steer growth away from timberlands,&#8221; Brown reported.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that more open space would be protected, both for habitat and for use by the timber industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTDRs are going to be part of the conversation on how we protect the backcountry,\u201d [Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages president] Brian Towers told Brown.<\/p>\n<p>State Senator Betty Little has already sponsored legislation that would create a mechanism for transferring development rights between private parcels in the Park.<\/p>\n<p>Green groups supported the idea in concept, but opposed the bill because of some particular objections.\u00a0 It passed the state Senate but died in the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Is there still lee-way to develop too many homes in the Adirondack Park?\u00a0 And should more of that development be encouraged closer to already developed areas?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/20100\/20120706\/big-park-big-questions-part-one-do-state-rules-do-enough-to-protect-adirondack-open-space\">And be sure to check out my interview with Brown about his article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Brown in the Adirondack Explorer magazine looks in-depth this month at the big question [&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":[22,10,884,6883,4806,4817,6885,6882,48,6884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238"}],"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=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}