The next chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency remains undecided.

According to the Press Republican, Teresa Sayward confirmed Monday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided not to appoint Richard Booth, a professor of land-use planning at Cornell University, to the post.

The nomination, made in late April, raised concern among some Adirondack lawmakers and several local interest groups because Booth lives and works in Ithaca, which is outside the Adirondack Park.

There has been only one interim APA chairman, James Townsend, who did not reside in the park.