Adirondack Park Agency Pays
Heed to Association's Advocacy for Public Hearing on Mountaintop Communication Towers
The Adirondack Park Agency voted at its August meeting to conduct a public hearing about Saratoga County's proposal to construct three mountaintop emergency communication towers, associated mountain road building on steep slopes and other development inside the Adirondack Park. The Agency's action follows years of successful advocacy by the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, the Adirondack Council and private landowners to require a public hearing on this controversial proposal that would result in damage to currently undeveloped mountains in northern Saratoga County. View the joint press release from the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and the Adirondack Council.
This is not a case of environmental protection in the Adirondacks versus public health and safety. We believe both can be achieved. The landowner at Mt. Anthony, the site of one of the proposed towers, has presented strong evidence that alternative radio designs and configurations could meet or exceed Saratoga County's desired radio coverage without damaging Mt. Anthony or compromising the APA's Towers Policy which requires that towers will be "substantially invisible and in the vicinity of existing settlements," and will avoid "locating facilities on mountain tops and ridge lines."
This web site will announce details about the APA public hearing in coming weeks.