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    LETTERS

    Dec 28, 2019 3 minutes

    Governor intent on weakening APA

    Thank you for the excellent if depressing article by Stephen Leon in your Nov/Dec issue, entitled “Who protects the park?” The state’s Adirondack Park Agency was created to fill that protective role through its park-wide land-use controls. In recent years, however, the agency appears to have forgotten its original purpose and lost its way.

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is known to micromanage the APA and dictate many of its development decisions, has allowed most of his appointments to the APA’s 11-member governing board to lapse. When he finally did get

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