I am not the best person to speak of the Adirondack Park Agency... but MarchonDC09122009 linked to a website of the anti-APA people and so I will too... I don't think it makes it very clear the extent of this State Agency controls property owners. Think of them as the WORLD'S WORST homeowners association. Of the top of my head they dictate what the "approved" colors are for your house, what you may do with your property... how long a camper or trailer can sit ON YOUR LAND, and generally a bunch of assf*ckery. The APA is appointed by the governor... no recourse, no way to fight them and they expect you to jump through hoops. My line of work was reopening the old Adirondack Railroad Branch that goes from Saratoga up to Tahawus... my work was under the Interstate Commerce Clause, but the people in my office bent over backwards to satisfy these bastards at the APA for weedspraying permits on a RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY which is governed by the FRA, the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT... not some clocksucker Democrat governers handpicked gaggle of environmental Nazis and general terrorists and abusers of property rights.
Here... try this link... or maybe a resident can explain better than I.
http://prfamerica.org/indices/APA-Index.html