THE INTERNET: On the Save the Pine Bush website you can find two useful tools for tracking and analyzing proposed developments in Pine Bush.
The agenda tracker checks the websites of the City of Albany, Town of Colonie, Village of Colonie and Town of Guilderland and automatically downloads them from their websites. It then converts them to text format, scans them for addresses, tax map codes, and mentions of the Pine Bush. Then it matches them to a list of all known Pine Bush parcels from county tax maps and links them against the protection recommendation of the Albany Pine Bush Commission.
The mapper is an interactive map that pulls together county tax maps, aerial photos from 1952 to 2024, topographic maps, Albany Pine Bush Commission data, wetlands and terrain maps from DEC’s Environment Resource Mapper. Multiple layers can be added and swapped using the box on right hand corner. It pulls up-to-date data directly from government-run ArcGIS MapServer and is powered by LeafletJS.
