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“Vested Rights Bill Would Stop the Rules from Changing” - Carol W. LaGrasse, News Item, PRFA, February 7, 2008
Municipalities have been adding new rules in response to NIMBY’s after applications are filed. The Vested Rights Bill (A6023-A and S3852-A) would put a stop to this unfair practice.

“Property Rights-Related Bills in the New York State Legislature” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA,
May 13, 2004)
Descriptions of 13 bills in the NY Legislature that benefit property owners, including wetlands tax abatement, statute of limitations on APA Act, tax exempt non-profit reform, forestry tax exemption
reimbursement, separate wetlands assessment, wetlands homeowner’s relief, citizen’s wetlands expertise fund, wetland owner just compensation, authority reform, and eminent domain notification reform.

“Property Rights Legal Foundation Inaugurated”
(PRFA, Oct. 18, 2003)
Attorney Madeline Sheila Galvin announced at the Seventh Annual Conference on Private Property
Rights that the long-envisioned Property Rights Legal Foundation was incorporated in September. The primary purpose of the non-profit organization is “to promote freedom, property rights, civil rights, [and]
constitutionally guaranteed rights.”

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For Information on the APA:
Subscribe to the Adirondack Park Agency Reporter
An independent monthly record of the deliberations of the Adirondack Park Agency
address

New York Blue Line Council
(Adirondack Park Agency Issues)
address

Pacific Legal Foundation
(litigates important private property rights cases, including in New York State)
address & web site

Additional Resources

“Biosphere Reserves in Action: Case Studies of the American Experience:
Published by the United States Man and the Biosphere Program (U.S. MAB, June 1995.”
Includes studies of 12 major UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the U.S.
The Biosphere Reserves in New York:

2. Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve
map

link to main page

See our
Biosphere Reserves Index Page
for links to all 12 studies

Access to Government Lands
Latest - July 18, 2010

Adirondack Organizations
Latest - January 12, 2003

Adirondack Park Agency (APA)
Latest - August 5, 2010

Adverse Possession
Latest - July 12, 2008

Assessment Privacy
Latest - February 9, 2008

Asset Forfeiture
Latest - March 13, 2004

Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites
Latest - October 31, 2009

Canalway Trails & Canals
Latest - February 13, 2004

Champion International Lands & Lawsuit
Latest - January 3, 2010

Citizen’s Strategies for Defending Private Property Rights
Latest - January 28, 2009

Cultural Eradication
Latest - March 11, 2007

Eminent Domain
Latest - August 3, 2010

Endangered Species
Latest - July 20, 2006

Energy Production & Distribution—Obstruction
Latest - March 11, 2009

Farming Issues
Latest - January 11, 2007

Freedom of Information & Open Government
Latest - October 1, 2007

Freedom of Speech & Property Rights
Latest - April 15, 2007

GIS — A Fourth Amendment Threat to Private Property Owners Latest - July 18, 2010

Government Control of Private Land
Latest - January 18, 2009

Government Land Acquisition
Latest - February 28, 2010

Gravel Mining Obstruction
Latest - September 26, 2004

Greenways
Latest - January 4, 2007

Heritage Rivers & Areas
Latest - March 14, 2010

Hidden Government
Latest - March 31, 2005

Highways, Rights-of-Way
Latest - December 18, 2009

Historic Preservation
Latest - March 11, 2009

Hudson River Black River Regulating District
Latest - March 12, 2006

Hunting Issues
Latest - April 5, 2010

Johnson’s Landlord’s Commentaries
Latest - March 9, 2004

Landlords — Defending Their Rights
Latest - March 11, 2009

Local Home Rule — Threatened & Defended
Latest - May 25, 2008

Local Property Rights Organizations
Latest - July 17, 2008

Long Island Pine Barrens
Latest - January 18, 2009

Management of State-owned Lands
Latest - June 19, 2009

New York City Watershed
Latest - January 20, 2006

Northern Forest Lands
Latest - April 21, 2003

PCB Dredging Threatens Upstate Landowners
Latest - March 11, 2001

Preservation vs. the Future of the North Country
Latest - July 18, 2010

Preserving Private Land in Private Hands
Latest - March 11, 2009

Privacy
Latest - November 2007

Real Estate Tax & Assessments
Latest - February 28, 2010

Regulatory Abuse of Small Business
Latest - December 6, 2009

Religious Institutions
Latest - January 12, 2009

Rent Control
Latest - April 16, 2005

Sacandaga Reservoir
Latest - December 5, 2009

Scenic Byways & All-American Roads
Latest - April 20, 2007

Stopping Government Land Acquisition — Defending the Local Culture & Economy
Latest - May 25, 2008

Trails - Including Rail Trails, Canalway Trails, & Snowmobile Trails
Latest - April 21, 2008

TDR’s Transferable Development Rights
Latest - January 18, 2009

Waterways Issues
Latest - July 12, 2008

Wetlands Justice Project
Latest - June 16, 2009

Defeating Zoning & Building Codes
Latest - March 11, 2009

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