[Announce] Update and Important Meetings

[Lynne Jackson]

Dear Save the Pine Bush Supporters,

Eighteen Save the Pine Bush supporters attended the oral argument for  
our case about the proposed hotel in the Pine Bush in the Appellate  
Division this past Friday, which is very, very good.  Thank you to  
everyone who attended!

Steve Downs, our attorney for the hotel case, gave an excellent oral  
argument for why Save the Pine Bush has standing to sue the City over  
its approval of the proposed hotel in the Pine Bush.

No decision was made by the court, and no decision is expected for  
many weeks.

Important upcoming meetings about proposals to be built in the Pine  
Bush.  You presence at any of these meetings would be most welcome!

All meetings are held on the Second Floor in City Hall in either the  
Common Council chambers or the Court Room, Room 209.

Monday, June 2, 7:00 PM - Albany Common Council meeting.  Discussion  
of the issue of rescinding the bonding for the proposed dump in the  
Pine Bush may be discussed.  Save the Pine Bush supporters should  
come and speak at 7:00 during the open public comment period against  
expanding the landfill in the Pine Bush.

Tuesday, June 3, 5:30 PM - Albany Common Council PLANNING, ECONOMIC  
DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE Committee will determine whether or not to  
accept the SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT for the  
proposed Hotel in the Pine Bush as complete.  Yes, this is quite  
crazy, since this exact same proposed Hotel in the Pine Bush is what  
we are suing about and what we had the oral argument about on  
Friday.  Public comment is allowed at this meeting, and we should all  
attend and ask the Committee to wait until the appeal in our court  
case is decided (we did, after all, WIN in Supreme Court, it is the  
City that appealed) before making any decisions at all.

Wednesday, June 11, 6:15 PM - Albany Common Council GENERAL SERVICES,  
HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE.  Bonding for the landfill will be  
discussed (Save the Pine Bush believes that the City cannot bond for  
the landfill expansion BEFORE the expansion has been approved by the  
NYS Dept of Environmental. Conservation).  Also on the agenda, a  
discussion of the 20-year Solid Waste Plan.

I do apologize for sending three emails in the past few days.  I wish  
to assure you, that this list will only be used to make announcements  
about extremely important meetings, court cases, or events regarding  
threats to the Pine Bush.

After several months of little action, the proposed landfill and  
proposed hotel in the Pine Bush are very much back on the City's  
agenda.  We must fight these proposals to protect the Pine Bush.

Thank you all very much,

Sincerely,

Lynne Jackson
Volunteer, Save the Pine Bush
email me at lynnejackson at mac.com with any comments or questions
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