Adirondack Explorer

It's debatsble

Let’s try to live with what we’ve got

I like to think of myself as a glass half-full guy, but it’s hard to be optimistic about fixing something that is so complex, so polarizing and means so many different things to different people.

To Adirondack Park Agency staff, the Land Use and Development Plan is a regulation to diligently enforce. To the groups that dedicate themselves to “protecting” the park, it is the Holy Grail of regulation and not enforced diligently enough. To

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