Keep the Whites Wild says Cog needs site plan review

This backcountry skier paid a $10 daily parking fee on Saturday at the Cog Railway’s parking lot to hike to Jacob’s Ladder for a long run down. This sign will be changed; each recreationalist now will have to pay a $10 land use fee to access the Cog’s privately owned corridor. (EDITH TUCKER PHOTO)

THOMPSON and MESERVE’S PURCHASE — The spokesman for Keep the Whites Wild is questioning whether the Mt. Washington Cog Railway needs to seek site plan review for its winter land use permit fee, among other changes it recently instituted.

Chris Magness of Conway, of the non-profit group that launched a Protect Mount Washington campaign a year ago in response to the Cog’s saying it might build a Skyline Lodge at 5,600 feet on the 99-foot-wide corridor it owns, emailed Coos County Planning Board Chair John Scarinza with his comments on the Cog’s planned fee.

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