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Title

Adirondack Park Agency Regulatory Programs Committee monthly agency meeting reports

Series Number

21734

Summary

The Regulatory Programs Division is responsible for review of all projects undertaken in the Adirondack Park that fall within the Adirondack Park Agency's (APA) jurisdiction and for coordinating and administering all permit related activity associated with review of the projects. This series consists of master microfilm copies of reports, draft minutes, agendas, preparatory materials, draft and approved permits, and related material. No use copy of this microfilm is available. Researchers should contact APA for access.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Title

Minutes of meetings

Series Number

14285

Summary

This series consists of Adirondack Park Agency (APA) meeting minutes. Records include adopted meeting minutes, as well as committee reports and memoranda submitted at each meeting. Minutes from 1979 forward also include meeting agendas for both the full agency and individual committees within the agency. Records reflect drafting and amending of APA rules and regulations, drafting and amending of public and private land use and development plans, and agency decisions and responses to litigation.

Creator

• Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

State land overlay maps

Series Number

B2274

Summary

This series consists of overlay maps corresponding to United States Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangle maps showing locations of state lands in the Adirondack region (mostly eastern Adirondacks). The maps also depict survey patents. Maps are 1:24,000 scale and contain extensive pencil and color-coded notations and additions. Some camera negatives are included.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Adirondack Park Agency Regulatory Programs Division project files

Series Number

16573

Summary

The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is responsible for insuring that all building in the Park is compatible with the natural character of the land, and has a minimum adverse affect on the environment. The Operations Division, now the Regulatory Programs Division, is responsible for the review of all projects undertaken in the Adirondack Park that fall within the APA's jurisdiction and for coordinating and administering all permit related activity associated with the review of the projects.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Land Use and Natural Resources Inventory and Land Related Information System research, planning, and use files

Series Number

B1107

Summary

This series consists of files used to track and conduct research, program planning, user services, and overall administration of the Land Use and Natural Resources Inventory and Land Related Information System research (LUNR and LRIS) projects. The projects resulted in aerial photographs, later computer generated overlays, of the entire state. Records include correspondence; memorandums; research; reports; publications; meeting minutes; history files; pilot program files; studies; summaries; user questionnaires; surveys; statistics; and user manuals and guides.

Creator

• New York State Economic Development Board

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Chronological correspondence files

Series Number

18851

Summary

This series consists of chronological correspondence files compiled and maintained by the office of the Executive Director of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). Within the series there are files created directly by the executive director and files created by the agency's chief legal counsel. Records consist predominantly of copies of outgoing correspondence and attachments directed to other state agencies, local and regional environmental groups, and private citizens as well as copies of memoranda addressed to agency members and staff. Also included are meeting materials, agendas, and minutes; legal documents; agency resolutions; budget materials; draft reports and studies; annual reports; proposed legislation and related memoranda; executive orders; permit and variance applications, notices of public hearings, variance and project review minutes, proposed Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan map amendments, and agency orders; and clippings of newspaper and journal articles.

Creator

• Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Executive Director's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Permits for use and occupancy of New York State canal lands

Series Number

B1790

Summary

This series consists of permits and related materials for conveyances of real property within canal lands to individuals. This material apparently superseded functions covered by revocable permits issued by the Division of Waterways Maintenance (Series B1789). Permits in this series are generally for use or occupancy of real property on canal lands in excess of one year. Permit files generally include applications for permits, related correspondence, superseded revocable permits, and any maps, plans, sketches, or notes for the proposed structures.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Copies of maps of lands appropriated for enlargement of Erie Canal at Lyons and Palmyra

Series Number

B0665

Summary

This series consists of maps showing the appropriation of lands for the enlargement of the Erie Canal through the village of Palmyra and at or near the village of Lyons. These maps contain name of property owner and acreage of land appropriated.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Index to permits for use and occupancy of New York State canal lands

Series Number

B1788

Summary

This series consists of index cards created by the Real Estate Division of the Department of Transportation to facilitate access to permits for the use and occupancy of New York State canal lands (Series B1790). Permits were typically granted to private citizens to build camps or boat docks on canal property; to municipalities to build bridges or other infrastructures; and to private companies to construct gas or other pipelines across or along canal right of way.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Maps of lands appropriated by state agencies for building sites

Series Number

A3326

Summary

This series contains maps of land to be appropriated by state agencies for building sites (state hospitals, colleges, and armories) and for construction of the Troy-Menands Bridge. Maps include full descriptions including map and parcel numbers, reputed owners, and acreage. Also included are several incorporation maps, maps of extended boundaries annexed to villages, and plot maps of unappropriated county lands.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Pre-existing subdivision files

Series Number

18861

Summary

This files in this series are created by the Adirondack Park Agency Counsel's Office in the process of determining whether or not property subdivisions are pre-existing and thus exempt from land use or development permit requirements. Files include correspondence; memoranda; copies of maps, plans, and deeds; sketch maps; copies of permit applications; land title documentation; background research materials; and copies of final determinations.

Creator

• Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Office of Counsel

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

New York State Barge Canal System residency maps

Series Number

B1762

Summary

This series consists of approximately 240 linen maps showing locations of channels, structures, appropriated lands, and terminals of the Erie, Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga and Seneca Canals, as well as the location of old canals in relation to the Barge Canal System as improved under laws of 1903, 1909, and 1911. The improved canals would become the Barge Canal System. The maps contain information regarding individual structures and appropriated lands not found on other maps of canal lands.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Harold A. Jerry, Jr. professional papers

Series Number

B1830

Summary

This series consists of Harold Jerry's personal copies of records compiled during public service with the Office for Regional Development, the Temporary Commission on the State Court System, the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks, the Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century, and the Adirondack Highway Council. Records include correspondence; working, policy, and issue papers; press releases; economic and environmental studies; environmental field reports; draft legislation; meeting minutes, summaries, and agendas; budget materials; and clippings.

Creator

• Jerry, Harold A., Jr., 1920-2001

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Park Ecology Committee monthly agency meeting reports

Series Number

21750

Summary

This series from the Resource Analysis Unit consists of monthly reports, minutes, agendas, and reports received from Adirondack Park Agency staff or units by the Park Ecology Committee.

Creator

• Suffolk Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

Title

Inactive revocable permits

Series Number

B1789

Summary

This series consists of inactive revocable permits for the temporary use of canal lands and waters filed with the Waterways Maintenance Division and its predecessor agencies. Permits became inactive as authorized uses were outmoded or new permits were issued. Files usually include permit applications; correspondence with the applicant; maps, surveys, and drawings or sketches of relevant structures. Uses approved by permits include agriculture, beautification, boating docks, marinas, pipelines, railroads, spoil, recreation transmission lines, and water supplies.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Land management files

Series Number

B2296

Summary

This series consists of files documenting discussions of land permit and land abandonment issues throughout the Barge Canal System. Records consist chiefly of correspondence between the main canal office and Department of Transportation Regional Offices (later Canal Corporation Divisional Offices). Background documentation, such as maps, is also sometimes included.

Creator

• New York State Canal Corporation

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Chairman's subject and correspondence files

Series Number

18855

Summary

The series consists of the files of the executive director of the Adirondack Park Agency, who is responsible for the agency's overall administration, including oversight of the Adirondack Park Private Land Use and Development Plan, the State Land Master Plan, and various mandates to protect the Park and enhance economic development for its residents. Since 1988 the executive director has also been fulfilling duties of the APA counsel's office.

Creator

• Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Executive Director's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Maps of lands permanently appropriated by the State of New York for the use of the Barge Canal

Series Number

B1808

Summary

The Laws of 1903, Chapter 147 authorized the State Engineer to appropriate lands, structures, and waters for the use of the improved canals (Barge Canal). This series consists of the original linen and paper maps created and maintained by the State Engineer and Surveyor and its succeeding agencies. The bound volumes constitute a five-volume set of maps showing land appropriations made pursuant to Chapter 79 of the Laws of 1895.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Index to inactive revocable permits

Series Number

B1787

Summary

This series consists of index cards produced by the Division of Waterways Maintenance to facilitate access to revocable permits for the use of canal lands and waters (Series B1789). Information includes name and address of permitted; permit date; Department of Transportation region; permit number; permit costs; permit status and a brief description of the action approved by the permit. Insurance permits also contain insurance policy or certificate of insurance numbers for the land or property described by the permit.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Land Use and Natural Resources Inventory and Land Related Information System aerial photographs

Series Number

B1052

Summary

These aerial photographs were taken to produce overlay maps for the LUNR and LRIS projects as part of a natural resource inventory in New York State. The base maps for the overlays were United States Geological Survey/New York State Department of Transportation quadrangle maps. The photographs document general and specific use of land for analysis by government and private planning, development, and conservation agencies. Discernible features include agricultural land, forest land, waterways, residential developments, commercial/industrial developments, buildings, and roads.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Planning Services

Access Restrictions

B1052-88: Photonegatives closed for research. Photographs are use copy.