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In-Depth Information
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 “Fear and Trembling”-
By Carol W. LaGrasse (“Worth Commenting,” Reprinted
from the New York Property Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 10, No.
1, PRFA, Winter 2006)
Most property owners faced with the threatening experience
of dealing with DEC wetlands bureaucrats and APA officials are
so terrified that that they will not ask their elected representatives
for assistance. Anyway, representatives can not be counted on
to help property owners facing unjust environmental permit conditions
and enforcement, but, instead, are good at getting grants for
communities.
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 “Southampton Property Owner Wins Takings
Compensation for Wetlands Regulation” - By James E.
Morgan, Attorney, Galvin & Morgan (Reprinted from the New
York Property Rights Clearinghouse, Winter 2004)
The New York State Appellate Court ruled in 2003 that Stanley
Friedburg deserves compensation for the application of regulation
under the Tidal Wetlands Act because the burden to benefit the
public good was to be borne essentially by him and because “the
denial of the permit destroyed all but a bare residue of economic
value of the property.”
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- “State must
come to aid of wetlands owners,” Letters to the Editor,
by Carol W. LaGrasse, Daily Gazette, Schenectady, N.Y.,
December 15, 2000.
This letter calls for tightening of the definition of jurisdictional
wetlands and for a formal system of tax abatement on wetlands
properties.
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- “Pulse of
the People—Prentiss courageously led charge” -
Op Ed by Carol W. LaGrasse in The Troy Record, October
24, 2000.
This letter reflects on 40 years of mosquito policy in the
State of New York, with observations about wetlands.
Assemblyman Robert G. Prentiss’s press conference to
seek justice for Saratoga County landowners, in front of New York
State Capitol Building in Albany. Photo courtesy of Robert
G. Prentiss.
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- Official letter
to “Dear Property Owner,” from Gerald A. Barnhart,
Director, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation—Division
of Fish, Wildlife & Marine Resources, November 12, 2000.
This letter to all 4,264 property owners who had received
notices in 1999 that they had new jurisdictional wetlands on
their property announced that DEC “is suspending
the current map amendment effort in Saratoga County until further
notice.”
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 “Wetlands
stance commendable,” - Letter to the Editor, Peter LaGrasse,
The Post Star, Glens Falls, N.Y., December 27, 1999
Peter LaGrasse points out that “wetland designations
could well be the most prominent influence on value.”
He calls for:
- Separate assessments for wetland
- Separate appeals of these wetland assessments
- Small Claims Court jurisdiction over wetland assessments
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- “Uncertainty
as Law—Basic Injustice of New York Wetlands Regulation”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse, An Address to the Landowners’ Rights
Assembly, Milton, New York, November 18, 1999
This speech uses history and a present-day local example to
contrast the justice which our legal system is intended to guarantee
with the juggernaut of New York State’s current discretionary
wetlands regulation.
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- “DEC
should revisit wetlands mapping,” - by Carol W. LaGrasse,
“Comment,” Capital District Business Review,
Albany, N.Y., September 27, 1999
This Op Ed is a concise overview of the injustices faced by
wetlands property owners in New York, especially considering
the abuse of power inherent in DEC’s re-mapping method,
and urges essential reforms that were subsequently incorporated
into the Prentiss legislative proposals in February 2000.
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 “Wetlands, Long
Island Pine Barrens Takings” - from a speech by Walter H. Olsen, Sr.,
Flanders, N.Y., Proceedings of the Third Annual N.Y. Conf.
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, 1998)
Mr. Olsen relates his personal experience where his property
was trapped by New York State DEC’s and the Town
of Southampton’s wetlands enforcement.
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