TUPPER LAKE — Mediation meant to address multiple concerns over resort development in Tupper Lake has officially ended.

The proposed 600-plus unit Adirondack Club and Resort will now move to adjudication, a hearing process requested by the Adirondack Park Agency more than two years ago.

STALLED

Mediation sessions, which were closed to the press and the public, began at the developers’ request in spring 2007.

But the talks stalled last July as developers and stakeholders worked toward elements of agreement on 10 unresolved issues in small, apparently informal, caucuses.

Not everyone signaled agreement in the end.

‘CHANGES MADE’

Lead developer Michael Foxman said he came away from the process pleased.

“I am very satisfied with the result of the mediation,” he said in an e-mail.

“The town (Tupper Lake), county (Franklin), village (Tupper Lake) and Chamber of Commerce (Tupper Lake) and some others signed (a mediation agreement). The environmental groups did not, no surprise there.

“A number of people we thought were opposed spoke up and indicated they were not necessarily opposed, but they had issues they would like to discuss further. We will try to accommodate them, but we did not think more mediation was required for that. I was pleased by many comments of people who did not sign.

“We made changes (to the project) designed to reflect comments and information received during the mediation. We think the project is stronger for that.”

Changes to the project have not emerged clearly from private caucus. And no formal changes to project plans have been submitted yet to APA.