Group plans meeting on lake effort
By ZACH SUBAR, The Leader-HeraldBROADALBIN - The town is looking to schedule a public meeting at Broadalbin-Perth High School to inform members of the lake community of work the Sacandaga Protection Committee is doing to prevent rule changes to the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District's permit system.
The meeting would be conducted jointly with the town of Mayfield. Organizers say they hope to conduct the meeting July 27, a Monday, and they hope people who come to the lake on weekends can stay for the meeting.
"People come to the area and they have never heard of this situation before," committee member Fred Wilhelm said at a town meeting Tuesday.
Committee members hope to schedule a meeting for residents of Edinburg, Day and Northampton at Northville Central School in August.
Wilhelm, a town resident, also briefed the board and members of the public at the meeting on the committee's recent work.
The committee recently hired Daniel Spitzer of the firm Hodgson Russ as its lawyer, and it has several subcommittees working to raise and manage its money.
The Fulton County Regional Chamber of Commerce & Industry has set up a fund for donations people want to make to the effort.
Town Supervisor Lee Hollenbeck said Fulton County Planning Director James Mraz and Saratoga County Planning Director Jason Kemper want to get together to assess what might happen to property values if the proposed rules - which were pulled off the table last month by Gov. David Paterson's office - take effect the future.
People at the meeting blasted the regulating district, saying it had no sense of how the proposed rules would affect the area's economy. The most recent proposed version of the rules would have made the land around the Great Sacandaga Lake accessible to anyone as long as they arrive there from public land.
Residents said some people who are afraid the rules eventually will be adopted already are trying to sell their homes around the lake.
Some said it would affect businesses beyond the lake, since summertime lakeside residents spend money in all areas nearby.
"It would create an economic ghost town in this area," resident Ed Finkle said at the meeting.
Zach Subar covers rural Fulton County news. He can be reached at ruralnews@leaderherald.com.
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sainshooter
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07-12-09 11:02 AM
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O for heavens sake stop your crying.... If you don't like it move its just that easy..POOF
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Discobulous
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07-09-09 3:40 PM
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Yes. Comvince the HRBRRD Bored members their ideas are all wet.
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Patriot1
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07-09-09 3:31 PM
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Lake residents, pay close attention. HRBRRD is attempting to follow the failed policies New York State has adopted over the past four decades -- that being, "tax the living daylights out of their constituents in an attempt to gain more power by using taxpayers' money for their own aggrandizement". You can stop this - please attend the meeting.
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