RAY BROOK, N.Y. (WCAX) - The Adirondack Park Agency Board will require an adjudicatory hearing for a proposed weapons firing range on private lands in the town of Lewis.

The applicant, Michael Hopmeier, is the president of Unconventional Concepts, a private military contractor who owns an abandoned nuclear missile silo and recently conducted a military exercise that drew criticism from his neighbors.

He is asking the APA to approve the firing and testing of a howitzer cannon at least 30 times a year on Hale Hill Road as part of ballistics testing.

In a draft report this month , APA staff say the three main issues they want addressed are: Whether the application fits within the Adirondack Park Land Use Plan; if it meets the area’s rural use designation; and whether there would be adv

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