New information added on November, 2007

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In-Depth Information “High-tech Surveillance & Informants Exploited to Enforce Land-use Regulation — Our Struggle to Raise Public Concern About Privacy and Property Rights” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (Property Rights Foundation of America, March 15, 2005) New infringements on privacy have arisen under the mantra of environmentalism, zoning, and building regulations. GIS, low-level fly-overs, and space surveillance help enforce radical regulations. Government agencies harness citizen snitches to inform on violators of environmental rules. “Another Snitch System Institutionalized” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA January 23, 2005) With the successful settlement of a lawsuit by an environmental group, the Residents Committee to Protect the Adirondacks, citizen informants can not efficiently report violations on the six-million acre Adirondack Forest Preserve. New York State’s trend toward environmental snitch systems is raising hackles here and there. “Rochester Landlords Fight Rezoning—Rezoning Two-family Areas to Single-family will Hurt Landlords and Tenants” — By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, October 1, 2002) Code and crime crackdowns across the large areas of land that are newly zoned to single-family in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, threaten to cause houses to be “unoccupied” for a time period that triggers the loss of grandfathering of affordable rental units in two-family houses.

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