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October 27, 2006
STATE COURT BARS VILLAGE-TOWN ANNEX PLAN 
KINDERHOOK—State Supreme Court Judge John C. Egan dismissed Anthony Buono’s suit Against the Village of Valatie and the Town of Kinderhook. Mr. Buono’s petition challenged the municipalities’ rejection of his bid to have property on Rod and Gun Club Road (in the Town of Kinderhook) annexed to the village (of Valatie.)
To view the Independent article: See Annexation/Subdivisions to Left, Click on Articles

A MESSAGE FROM JAMES SHELDON

THE DEBATE OVER ZONING, as complex as it is controversial, seems to boil down to two fundamental and closely related questions:

1.) Do land use laws deprive individual property owners of their civic rights;

2) Does more restrictive zoning, as called for by codes now under review in most of our towns, reduce the economic value of the affected properties?

The latest "For the Record" posting on our website, Property Rights and Wrongs, offers an opinion on each of these questions.

The first is an editorial by Parry Teasdale, Editor of the Columbia County Independent, affirming the view that "zoning embodies the bedrock principles of local democracy," and promoting stiff penalties for land owners who put their personal desires above the community's right to enact local laws.

The second, a letter I sent to the Independent, challenges the view that zoning reduces property values and offers a few basic economic principles
that suggest restrictions on development often have just the opposite effect.  The letter represents a taste of much more extensive research we
are conducting and compiling on the economic impact of land use restrictions.

Click on this direct link:
http://www.littletownviews.com/2006/11/property_rights_and_wrongs.html

Or go to the website at www.littletownviews.com

http://www.littletownviews.com and scroll down to the latest "For The Record" entry.

James Sheldon

Luykas Van Alen House (1737)
Kinderhook, New York
Maintained by the Columbia County Historical Society

Definition:
"Conservation is the process of planned management, the purpose of which is to prevent exploitation, destruction, and neglect; a process that enables and leads to preservation."
"Restoration is the act of bringing back to their former condition those things that have been neglected, exploited, and/or partially destroyed."

by Jim Eyre, editor, "Columbia County History and Heritage," Summer 2004
A publication of the Columbia County Historical Society

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March 12, 2006 

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