News Brief
Summer 2002
PRFA been trying since March to receive a reply to a Freedom
of Information request about the practice of New York City’s
Department of Environmental Protection of intimidating landowners
to accept revocable yearly permits to continue accessing their
private land by using established driveways across the City’s
watershed properties. PRFA is attempting to learn who the property
owners are who have been contacted by the City. Increasing numbers
of property owners may have a problem accessing their land as
the City continues its ambitious land-buying spree. It is becoming
more difficult to use private property in the Catskills and East-of-Hudson
watershed because of the City’s land-use regulations, which
may be stimulating “willing sellers.”
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