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Public InputAdirondack Park Agency public hearings and requests for public comment involving projects under review are posted below. Notices are sorted by comment period ending date. Adirondack Park Agency Public Notices
APA Land Use Classification: Moderate Intensity Use Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 04, 2010 Project Description: The action involves a four-lot subdivision of an 18.5± acre nonshoreline parcel, creating 3 vacant lots ranging in size from 1.5± acres to 1.9± acres and one 13.4±-acre lot improved by an existing single family dwelling. The construction of one single family dwelling with on-site wastewater treatment system and water supply is proposed on each of the vacant lots.
APA Land Use Classification: Hamlet Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 04, 2010 Project Description: The action involves replacement and realignment of existing above ground municipal sewer line with a buried sewer line in and near wetlands. Hamlet on the Adirondck Park Land Use and Development Plan Map.
APA Land Use Classification: All State Land Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 11, 2010 Project Description: The action replaces the existing approved Inter-Agency Work Plan For Management of Terrestrial Invasive Plant Species on State Land in the Adirondack Park with the Inter-Agency Guidelines for Implementing Best Management Practices for the Control of Terrestrial and Aquatic Invasive Species on Forest Preserve Lands in the Adirondack Park that provides a list of Best Management Practices for the management of invasive species on State lands within the Adirondack Park. The new Inter-Agency Guidelines provide additional BMP's for control of invasive species to include terrestrial, aquatic, and forest pest and pathogen species on State Land as well as site specific documentation required prior to implementation. A significant guideline of the SLMP is to protect the integrity of established native flora and fauna and to restore native species when feasible. The Guidelines are intended to meet the resource protection and rehabilitation goals expressed in the State Land Master Plan through available control methods and with minimum impact on the environment. The Guidelines identify target invasive species and recommended Best Management Practices.
APA Land Use Classification: Rural Use Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 18, 2010 Project Description: The project involves the lease of a 55 ft. x 70 ft. area on a 0.50 acre parcel owned by the Duane Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. to Verizon Wireless for the construction of an 80-foot tall triangular self-supporting latticework tower. Verizon proposes to locate a 12-panel array at the top of the tower and a 12 ft. x 30 ft. equipment building at the base of the tower. An ice bridge will protect the wires that connect the tower to the equipment building and the entire complex will be surrounded by a chain link fence. The existing access to the firehouse from County Route 26 will also provide access to the tower location. Utilities will be installed underground. Two omni antennas and a lightning rod are also to be attached to the top of the tower. The lightning rod will extend 10-feet above the top of the tower for an overall height of 90-feet. One 8-foot omni antenna is proposed by Franklin County Emergency and another 6-foot omni antenna is proposed by the Duane Volunteer Fire Department. Both omni antennas will extend above the top of the tower.
APA Land Use Classification: Low Intensity Use Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 18, 2010 Project Description: The action involves a five-lot subdivision involving wetlands and the construction of one-single-family dwelling on the four residential lots to be created within 1/8 mile of lands of the State of New York classified as Wilderness. The fifth lot will be the shared access drive, and originates from an adjoining pre-existing lot of record that provides access from Okara Road.
APA Land Use Classification: Moderate Intensity Use,Low Intensity Use,Rural Use Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 18, 2010 Project Description: Amendment of the Official Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map in the Town of Minerva, Essex County (Map Amendment 2006-2) to reclassify approximately 4591 acres of land in the following manner: AREA A: Low Intensity Use to Rural Use; 1141+/- acres AREA B: Low Intensity Use to Rural Use; 361+/- acres AREA C: Low Intensity Use to Rural Use; 280+/- acres AREA D: Low Intensity Use to Rural Use; 779+/- acres AREA E: Low Intensity Use to Rural Use; 300+/- acres AREA F: Moderate Intensity Use to Rural Use; 60+/- acres AREA G: Low Intensity Use to Resource Management; 4+/- acres AREA H: Low Intensity Use to Moderate Intensity Use; 326+/- acres AREA I: Low Intensity Use to Moderate Intensity Use; 516+/- acres AREA J: Rural Use to Moderate Intensity Use; 45+/- acres AREA K: Low Intensity Use to Moderate Intensity Use; 329+/- acres AREA L: Low Intensity Use to Moderate Intensity Use; 135+/- acres AREA M: Rural Use to Low Intensity Use; 87+/- acres AREA N: Low Intensity Use to Hamlet; 7+/- acres AREA O: Low Intensity Use to Rural Use; 139+/- acres A Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, together with a Notice of Completion, has been prepared for this proposed action pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act and is on file at the Adirondack Park Agency headquarters in Ray Brook, NY. The public comment period ends February 18, 2010.
APA Land Use Classification: Low Intensity Use Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 25, 2010 Project Description: The action involves installation of 89 foot tall telecommunications tower with 10 foot lightning rod for a total 99 foot tall tower with base equipment shelter to provide coverage to Northway and Route 9, on 100' by 100' leased parcel.
APA Land Use Classification: Rural Use Comment Period Ends: Thursday, February 25, 2010 Project Description: The action involves after-the fact approval of a retail antique store with prospective approval of a 20 x 20 addition to the back of the commercial use structure and a two-lot subdivision of the 3.1± acre parcel to divide the site into a 0.7± acre lot containing the existing single family dwelling and associated development and a 2.4± acre lot containing the commercial use structure and associated development. The store will be operated year-round, seven days a week from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. Auction events are proposed to take place under two canopy tents located adjacent to the commercial use structure. The tents will be temporarily placed on the site up to six times a year and no more than twice a month during the months of April through October for a maximum of seven days for each event.
APA Land Use Classification: Low Intensity Use Comment Period Ends: Thursday, March 04, 2010 Project Description: The action involves after-the-fact commercial use automotive repair, excavating and trucking, with new 6,400 square foot maintenance shop for timber harvesting and stone companies.
APA Land Use Classification: Wilderness,Primitive,Wild Forest,State Administrat Comment Period Ends: Friday, March 19, 2010 Project Description: The classification or reclassification of certain State lands within the Adirondack Park. The action involves 91 State land classification proposals totaling approximately 31,056 acres and four (4) State land reclassification proposals totaling an estimated 468 acres. Total acreage involved in the action is approximately 31,524 acres. The classification proposals involve lands in ten (10) counties including: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St. Lawrence, and Warren. Additional information is provided in the following documents: Public Hearing Notice (pdf 41kb) 2009 State Land Classification Chart (pdf 79kb) 2009 State Land Classification Maps (pdf 13.5Mb) The proposed Public Hearings will be held according to the following schedule and locations: January 25, 2010 Fire Hall 5635 Route 28N Newcomb, NY 7:00 pm January 27, 2010 Park Avenue Building 183 Park Ave Old Forge, NY 7:00 pm January 28, 2010 Town Hall, 3662 Route 3 Saranac, NY 7:00 pm February 2, 2010 St. Lawrence County Human Services Center 80 SH 310 Canton, NY 7:00 pm February 5, 2010 NYDEC, 625 Broadway Albany, NY 1:00 pm Written comments to the attention of Richard E. Weber will be accepted until March 19, 2010 by mail to PO Box 99, Ray Brook, NY 12977, or fax to (518)891-3938, or by email apa_slmp@gw.dec.state.ny.us .
APA Land Use Classification: Low Intensity Use,Rural Use Comment Period Ends: Friday, August 13, 2010 Project Description: The Adirondack Park Agency, as lead agency, has accepted a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed amendment to the Official Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map (Map Amendment 2008-04). The proposed map amendment was requested by the Town of Inlet and involves four areas in the Town, totaling 1913 +/- acres. The DSEIS is available for public review at the Adirondack Park Agency headquarters, 1133 NYS Route 86, Ray Brook, NY. The DSEIS is also posted on the Adirondack Park Agency website: www.apa.state.ny.us. A public hearing on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and proposed amendment will be held on August 12, 2009 at 7:30 PM at the Inlet Town Hall in Inlet, NY. The public hearing will be preceded by an informal information session that will begin 6:30PM. The Adirondack Park Agency will accept written comments on the proposed action until August 13, 2010.
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Public Comments...The public is welcome to attend Agency monthly meetings. A time for public comment is provided at the close of each monthly meeting. APA Monthly meeting schedule... Agency Public Comment Policy (pdf 8kb) Agency Review of Unit Management Plans Policy (pdf 39kb) Press releases of upcoming Agency meeting topics and meeting locations are usually released one to two weeks in advance of monthly meetings. State land public hearing summaries for State Land Master Plan reclassifications are posted on the State Land page when they occur. Environmental Notice Bulletin a NYS DEC weekly publication of legally required environmental notices. See the "Current Issue" page listings for DEC Regions 5 and 6 covering the park. Follow link to "SEQR and Other Notices" for APA notices. Live and Archived Media page... |
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