The controversial Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Project (STAMP)–1,380 acres of farmland, forest, and field rolled out by the Genesee County Industrial Development Agency and the Town of Alabama for the development of a speculative industrial ‘megasite’–took a step forward this week when the Genesee County Smart Growth Plan Priority Development Area for the Town of Alabama was amended to include the STAMP land. The Smart Growth Plan was created in 2001 to  protect farmland and open space by steering development to Priority Development Areas in and adjacent to already-developed areas, outside of which access to public water infrastructure would be deterred or denied. By adding STAMP’s acreage to the Town of Alabama’s priority development area, the project would be automatically entitled to the water infrastructure it would absolutely need for its envisioned industrial development.

This emendation adds the STAMP land to the Smart Growth Priority Development Area, but STAMP will hardly be smart growth–instead, this designation will enable greenfield development in a location we criticized in a blog earlier this year.

Read more about the addition of STAMP land to the Genesee County Smart Growth Plan’s Priority Development Areas