Dec 2004: Association attends and speaks out at first public presentation by the developer about project at Tupper Lake High School.

Winter 2005: Association submits 1st letter to NYS Adirondack Park Agency (APA) critiquing the project and the incomplete nature of developer Michael Foxman’s application.

April 2005: APA issues notice of incomplete application to Foxman et. al.

July 2005: Association’s Board of Trustees discusses the Park-wide, precedent-setting threats and implications of the ACR project and votes to oppose the project as submitted.

Aug 2005: Dan Plumley hired as the Association’s first North Country Director of Park Protection. The Association’s field work in Tupper Lake on the ACR accelerates.

Fall 2005: Dan Plumley and local residents organize 1st of many meetings of the Concerned Citizens of Tupper Lake.

Nov 2005: Association is the first organization to publicly announce its firm opposition to the ACR project as proposed on the basis of its sprawling size, regional threats to Resource Management and the Park setting, fragmenting impacts on forests, polluting and fiscal impacts on local governments.

Dec 2005: Town considers re-zoning Oval Wood Dish property to facilitate ACR project. Dan Plumley raises serious substantive and process concerns at town public hearing.

Winter 2006: Association reviews second ACR submission to NYS APA and issues its second letter to APA stating that the application lacks critical information.

March 2006: NYS APA issues second notice of incomplete application.

Spring 2006: Hudson Group, Town consultants, issue first reports critical of ACR’s financing, marketing and fiscal impacts on local governmental units/taxpayers.

July 2006: Association speaks out at Tupper Lake re-zoning public hearings.

Aug 2006: Association’s Conservation Committee meets with Concerned Citizens about all the issues.

Sept 2006: More Hudson Group Inputs. Town re-zones Oval Wood Dish lands in order to facilitate the ACR and ignores several key concerns of Hudson Group and Town/Village Planning Board.

Sept 2006: Concerned Citizens Take out full page ad in Tupper Lake Free Press called “Tupper Lake Faces its Future” expressing many concerns about ACR.

Dec 2006: APA deems ACR application complete.

Dec 2006: Association, Concerned Citizens et. al. file Article 78 lawsuit against the Town, Foxman, et. al. for illegal and improper re-zoning of the land.

Jan 2007: Adirondack groups convene press conference urging new Governor Eliot Spitzer to focus his attention on the ACR and to ask the APA to convene a comprehensive adjudicatory public hearing on the ACR project.

Jan 2007: APA begins formal review of the ACR application with legislative public hearing in Tupper Lake. Association’s staff and board representatives speak out at the hearing and call for a comprehensive adjudicatory public hearing in order to put all of the ACR issues on the record for decision-making.

Jan 2007: Nine regional and national conservation groups and dozens of area landowners write to the President of the Orvis Company asking him to disassociate Orvis from the ACR proposal and stop lending its name to the resort as an Orvis Sporting Lifestyle Community.

Feb 2007: APA conducts three-day review of the ACR application and unanimously votes to convene an adjudicatory public hearing on ten major issues to be initiated in March.

Feb 2007: Association critiques APA decision and continues preparation for full public hearing in collaboration with Concerned Citizens and other groups.

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