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roposed development a big test for Adirondack Park Agency

I can easily imagine many of the towns/cities in which I lived or visited during my 26-year career in the U.S. Air Force as simply caving in should a mammoth nature-destroying development ever come to their backyards. Not so in the Adirondack Park, which is across Lake Champlain from where I am typing this. Americans tend to easily forget, or just overlook, the fact that Nature is not making any new land these days. Once natural land has been built on or paved over, that’s the end, and Wild Nature is once again diminished. Read about the proposal to build a nw housing empire at Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks.

Va. coastal city to spend millions to preserve open space

Virginia Beach, in fact, has a multimillion-dollar open space preservation fund. And the city just announced this major deal to preserve a big chunk of shoreline land that had long been eyed for a sprawling subdivision. Congratulations to Virginia Beach. Now, why in the hell can’t other municipalities, including many in Pennsylvania, take similar measures and invest in open space and quality of life? Duh?

Citizens win, big-box developers lose one – finally

http://cbf.typepad.com/bay_daily/2010/02/a-judge-has-ruled-against-a-sprawling-residential-and-big-box-commercial-development-project-on-marylands-eastern-shore-th.html