Adirondack Park Agency Planning Division Map Amendments Files

Roughly chronological.

The Planning Division maintains, revises, and amends the Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map. Some amendments are straightforward and simple to execute. These usually involve technical corrections such as printing errors, illegibility of boundary lines, or the erroneous classification of state lands as private and vice versa. Other amendments may be more complicated and can involve the preparation of environmental impact statements and the holding of hearings. These amendments may take months to finalize and usually involve the reclassification of land use areas (e.g. designating an area as a marsh instead of a bog or urbanized as oppose to residential).

The Map Amendment Files consist of correspondence, memoranda, draft and final environmental impact statements, copies of positive and negative declarations, copies of maps, narrative descriptions of map amendments, copies of deeds and other instruments of title to the land involved, background research materials, copies of resolutions from localities requesting an amendment, and related records concerning the amendment of the APA's Adirondack Park Land Use & Development Plan Map.

Series consists of master negative film only. No use copy is available. Researchers should contact APA for use.

Microfilm: 12 reels; 16 mm.

Folder and roll lists are available at the repository.

Series consists of master negative microfilm only. No public use copy is available. Researchers should contact the Adirondack Park Agency for access to use copies.