You’re looking at the playground in Albany’s Sunrise Park. But it’s more than that. It’s also an exhibit in the story of how bureaucracy expands when it’s allowed to distort a well-intended law.
More ‘wetlands’ insanity
Written February 21st, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Somebody ought to add up all the public money that has been wasted over the years on studying or “mitigating” phony wetlands, that is, lands that are neither wet nor serve any of the functions of true wetlands. I’m thinking of this because in Albany now, we have yet another case.
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Tags: Alany Parks Department, Albany Human Relations Commission, Sunrise Park, wetland, wetlands mitigation banks
Tags: Alany Parks Department, Albany Human Relations Commission, Sunrise Park, wetland, wetlands mitigation banks
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Sunrise Park: Renovation in sight
The renovation of Sunrise Park, first considered in 2013, is finally scheduled to take place this year now that the city of Albany has obtained the required permits and spent $38,000 in federal antipoverty grant money to make up for the loss of a patch of so-called “wetlands.”
Tags: Community Development Block Grants, Sunrise Park, wetland bank, wetlands