{"id":896,"date":"2009-07-16T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/16\/apa-and-ski-bowl-boosters-win-one-in-north-creek\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:35:00","slug":"apa-and-ski-bowl-boosters-win-one-in-north-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/16\/apa-and-ski-bowl-boosters-win-one-in-north-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"APA and Ski Bowl boosters win one in North Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The now-defunct Residents Committee to Protect the Adirondacks sued the APA in 2006 over a unit management plan that cleared the way for the North Creek ski bowl interconnect project.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Environmental Conservation and the Olympic Regional Development Authority were also named in the suit.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to tie the local ski bowl to the Gore Mountain resort area for the first time, with a new ski lift and trails.<\/p>\n<p>The RCPA argued that New York state failed to complete a full environmental review that factored in the impact of the ski development on state land and the nearby Front Street condo project.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists also argued that the project exceeded the legal limits for development on Adirondack forest preserve set out in the State Land Master Plan.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling dated July 13th, state Supreme Court Justice Michael Lynch rejected those arguments and dismissed the suit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;this Court has determined that the State respondents&#8217; determination that the proposed developemnt would not degrade the physical, biological and social resources of the area was rationally based&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This represents another big step for boosters of the North Creek ski development project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The now-defunct Residents Committee to Protect the Adirondacks sued the APA in 2006 over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}