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Subseries 2: Counsel's Correspondence Files

Scope and Content Note:

Robert C. Glennon served continuously as associate counsel and later chief legal counsel of the Adirondack Park Agency during the period from 1974 to 1987. Counsel's correspondence files document the counsel's daily handling of legal and jurisdictional matters involving the agency. Records include responses to public inquiries regarding agency land use and development regulations; notices of pending legal action for non-compliance with agency regulations; memoranda to case files regarding phone conversations or other developments; memoranda to agency members and staff regarding the status of individual permit applications; permit application hearing summaries and draft agency orders; correspondence with private attorneys and the Department of Law regarding pending litigation; correspondence and related materials pertaining to proposed amendments to the Adirondack Park Agency Act, the State Land Master Plan, the New York State Freshwater Wetlands Act, and the APA rules and regulations; correspondence with the governor's counsel regarding proposed environmental legislation; correspondence with other state agencies regarding jurisdiction over land use and development in the Adirondack Park; and correspondence with the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee. An additional group of files was compiled by senior agency attorney David W. Quist during the period from 1992 to 1996. Cases documented in these files include Finch, Pruyn and Company, Inc. v. Adirondack Park Agency, in which Finch Pruyn challenged the agency's statutory authority to require the submission of a comprehensive master plan as part of the permit application process; Schultz v. Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation, which involved constitutional questions stemming from the contemplated use of agency facilities for the purpose of an "Environmental Sabbath in Celebration of Earth Day"; and Dudley Road Association v. Adirondack Park Agency, Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation et al., in which the plaintiff challenged the order and permit granted to Barber Homestead Trust and Edwin Barber to construct a forty-six unit recreational vehicle park.

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By counsel and therein chronologically by date of correspondence or by case name