Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) Planning Division Central Files

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The Planning Division of the Adirondack Park Agency is responsible for administering and maintaining the State Land Master Plan; completing the ongoing review of the private land plan for the Park; leading all APA activities related to information, data and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) management and analysis; processing amendments to the Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map; identifying and developing Park policy; long-range planning and policy development; and providing Park policy advice and direction. In addition to these responsibilities, the six professional staff and two-person support staff, provide technical and administrative support to other APA functions and programs.

This series documents subjects such as rivers, wetlands, Adirondack interest groups, State Environmental Quality Review law (SEQR law), the Park's 1992 centennial, regional planning programs, visitor contact planning, map amendment policy, river basins, hamlet studies, public relations, acid rain, hydropower, mapping, soils, forestry, and other matters.

Series consists of master negatives. No use copies are available.

Microfilm: 166 reels; 16 mm.

Although a few records were filed into this series as late as 1999, the series was essentially closed by the Adirondack Park Agency Planning Division during the mid-1990s.

This series consists of master negative copies of microfilm only. No use copies are available at the State Archives. Researchers should contact the Adirondack Park Agency for access to use copies.