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- Press Release, May 28, 1999.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (Reprinted from the New York Property
Rights Clearinghouse, PRFA, Summer 2006)
New York State’s announcements when acquiring
vast tracts of private land for the Forest Preserve promise more
access for the public, but over decades, more recently over a
very short time, the campsites and access roads are being closed
and the land is being cut off from hunters and other recreational
users that do not fit the mold approved by extreme environmentalists.
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- Dam Relicensing - A Crucial Arena of Environmental Activism
- The Time for Property Owners and Local Officials to Get Involved.
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- By J. Zane Walley, Speech, Sixth Annual New York Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Nov. 2002)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is enlarging the Everglades
by using its canals to raise the water level in Dade County,
Florida - flooding an 8.5 square mile area where over 500 families
live, ruining the avocado orchards and other farms, and making
the area uninhabitable. Transferable development rights are also
imposed to return the land to “Wildlands.”
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- by Carol W. LaGrasse, from Positions on Property,
Vol. 1, No. 2, Supplement (PRFA, May 1994)
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- By Chuck Damschen, LAND Past President (Reprinted by permission
from Landowners Association of North Dakota, January 2004, p.
3)
LAND expresses concern over Minnesota Governor Pawlenty’s
expanded Conservation Reserve Enhancement Plan. Landowners are
having negative experiences with perpetual easements. LAND favors
short-term easements that can be renegotiated on a regular basis.
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- An index page of information about land trusts.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA Background Brief,
July 1998.
Is the future of development in “environmentally
sensitive” areas heralded by the Beacon Waterfront
Development Project of Scenic Hudson land trust?
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- by Carol W. LaGrasse from Positions on Property,
Vol. 2, No. 1, Apr. 1995.
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- Speech by Eric Francis Coppolino from Proceedings of
the Third Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights
(1998).
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- Conservation Easements, Easy Government Money—Future
Problems by Carol W. LaGrasse, introductory articles excerpted
from Positions on Property, Vol. 5, No. 1, July 2000.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (Reprinted from NY Property Rights
Clearinghouse, PRFA, Fall 2003)
Conflicts raged over the Hudson River - Black River Regulating
District. The District tried to raise access permit fees over
300%. Access permit holder John Barber’s Hunt Lake
Holding Company sued to keep his lake access location, which
the District changed without notice.
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- By Mark Nix, Executive Director, South Carolina Landowners
Association
Columbia, South Carolina; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23,
2004)
This speech includes good advice for all property rights groups,
including: Form alliances with homeowners associations, churches,
and other groups to defend property rights. Frame the issues
to be understood. Warn people that government is “taking
away your property’s value,” instead
of about “zoning.” Get the news out to
your members at least once a month.
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- In the Hands of Environmental Extremists and Elitist Bureaucrats,
the Well-Intended Endangered Species Act has Gone Loco. By Don
Fife.
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- By Thom Randall (Post Star, Glens Falls, N.Y., August 1,
2002, page 1, reprinted by permission)
After a only ten telephone calls, Post-Star reporter Thom
Randall discovered five general stores in the lower Adirondacks
facing DEC-imposed fuel leak cleanup costs of between $191,000
and $550,000, whether or not the current owners caused the pollution.
Four of the five general stores with DEC liens, in Hadley, Starbuckville,
Johnsburg, Wevertown, and Olmstedville, are closed. The State
seized both the store and home of the storekeeper in Starbuckville,
and the devastated owner died of a heart attack a few years later.
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- The State Failed to Abide by its Own Rules, by Carol W.
LaGrasse, from Positions on Property, Vol. 5, No. 1 July
2000.
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- Update - March 2001:
Institute for Justice Campaigns Against Condemnations to Transfer
Property to Private Owners.
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- Land Trusts and Conservation Easements.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Letter to the Editor, Adirondack
Journal, July 26, 2003
The State of New York is punishing small businesses by banning
smoking in bars and restaurants, but avoids tackling one of the
most important dangers of smoking, the high radioactivity of
cigarettes.
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- News Brief, Reprinted from New York Property Rights
Clearinghouse, Summer 2003
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- Reflections on Unconstitutional Government in New York
- State environmental zoning agency follows family to bankruptcy
court.
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- Regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
decision to order the dredging and landfilling of PCBs from the
Hudson River.
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- To Carol W. LaGrasse, from Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary,
Policy, Management and Budget.
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-By Thomas J. Birkholz, Secretary, & Carol Birkholz,
Chairwoman, Warren County Conservative Party, Public Hearing,
Warrensburg Town Hall, December 28, 2006 (Used by permission)
The First Amendment provides, “Congress shall
make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of
the press.” In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court struck
down a Missouri city law prohibiting signs at private residences.
The unanimous decision rejected the ordinance in City of Ladue
v. Gilleo, writing that residential yard signs were “a
venerable means of communication that is both unique and important.”
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- From the PRFA regarding the dredging of PCB-Laden Mud from
the Hudson River.
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- This letter urges approval of President Bush’s
Healthy Forest Initiative with proposed categorical exclusions
from NEPA to expedite the reduction of excessive fuel buildup
in the National Forests. (Jan. 30, 2003)
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- This letter describes how rice farmer W. L. Harris, after
recovering from severe financial problems common during the 1980’s,
tried to exert his lease back - buyback rights, but the Farmer’s
Home Administration (now the Farm Services Agency) placed wetlands
easements on the 1004 best acres, prohibiting him from doing
anything but paying taxes on the land.
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- November 9, 2001, Re: Adirondack Park Agency Project
No. 2000-158
“Cold River Properties” Proposed Single Family Dwelling
, Response to letter by Adirondack Park Agency Counsel, Dated
October 24, 2001.
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- From Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, March 2002)
This letter gives ideas for reform to incorporate in DOI’s
five-year strategic plan. Wildlife restoration and land acquisition
should take place under transparent processes and be privatized,
eliminating corporatism between government and non-profit organizations.
Management of DOI land should promote private property rights,
while protecting human life, adjacent lands, rural communities,
wildlife and the environment, to produce raw materials, provide
recreation, and reduce eco-colonialism.
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(Adirondack Park Agency, September 12, 2005)
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Letter in opposition to the National Mormon Pioneer Heritage
Area Act - by J. Boyd Mickel, a Spring City Council Member.
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- Key Points for Success. How to write a successful
letter to the editor. By Carol W. LaGrasse
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, June 2006)
“The property owner should form a relationship with his
or her representative. The most effective citizen is the one
who has worked long and hard to participate in government, and
is well known to the elected representative.”
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (Property Rights Foundation of America
Background Brief, January 2004)
In spite of the NY General Obligations Law’s protections
for public-spirited property owners, the law’s exceptions
and court decisions show that owners have liability to recreational
and other users of their property where trails and recreational
access exist.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Queensbury Town Hall, March 3, 2004
DEC’s scheme to move snowmobiles out of a new
central Adirondack “core area” to the
periphery and to private land bodes ill for private property
owners, who face additional recreational use liability.
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- By Harriet M. Hageman, Attorney, Hageman and Brighton,
P.C., Cheyenne, Wyoming; Speech to the Ninth Annual Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 22,
2005)
Threats to private property rights affect our families, our
communities, our environment, our educational system and the
future of our children. With the Preble’s Jumping
Mouse and the introduction of the Canadian gray wolf into Wyoming
as examples, the Endangered Species Act is being manipulated,
not for the purpose of benefiting endangered species, but to
limit management and use of private property.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA, April 2008.
The executive and legislative branches of state government
are applying pressure to eliminate local elected assessors, as
a first step toward wiping out the office of town assessors and
absorbing it into each county Office of Real Property Tax Services.
Local elected assessors around New York State have gotten the
picture and are up in arms. Other offices of local government
are also threatened by recommendations of the Commission on Local
Government Efficiency and Competitiveness, established by former
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, with a very receptive legislature.
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- By Michael Cristofaro, Resident of the condemned Fort Trumbull
neighborhood of New London, Speech to the Ninth Annual National
Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y.,
October 22, 2005)
The Cristofaro family gave up their first house to eminent
domain, supposedly for a levee, but a private development was
built there instead. They refused to move when the City’s
New London Redevelopment Agency condemned their second home,
and fought their way to the U. S. Supreme Court, where their
case, Kelo v. New London, was defeated. Michael Cristofaro
speaks about the injustice of eminent domain at every opportunity
and is campaigning for the City Council.
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- A listing and brief description of property rights organizations
in New York State.
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- by Don Fife (Feb. 2002).
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- Pine Barrens Litigants get to “Discovery” in
Five-year-old Lawsuit.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, March 2002)
Walt Olsen’s property in limbo, tax foreclosure
and land trust hover. Judge Malone probes “unequal
treatment” issue.
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- Index page of information about the Long Island Pine Barrens.
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- Speech by John J. O’Connell from Proceedings
of the Second Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, 1996).
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- A Photo Gallery of the APA deliberations regarding the
Long Pond Tract permit
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, February 2002)
Farmers give a little in dispute with urban emigres. Town
drops key parts of farm preservation plan, including “Purchase
of Development Rights” and “Open Space”
zoning.
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- by Carol W. LaGrasse, from Positions on Property,
Vol. 5 No. 1 (PRFA, July 2000).
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