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November 20, 2004
Members: Ratner owns CBs
The Brooklyn Papers:
"Members of the community boards that encompass developer Bruce Ratner’s planned Atlantic Yards complex condemned their respective chairpersons Wednesday. They charged that, wittingly or not, the board chairs have allowed the developer to co-opt the boards without having reviewed his plans."
CB8 Member Bill Baston sounded off:
“[Community boards] were designed for the very purpose of a big development like this,” Batson said, “but yet we’re being asked to take more time to consider changing a street name than we are to consider changing the skyline of our borough.”
He charged that CB8 has been “propagandized” by Ratner while dissenters have been shut out.
“There are a lot of people who have come to our boards to talk to us about the project, but there’s nobody who’s concerned about that project who’s been invited in,” Batson said.
Posted by lumi at November 20, 2004 9:44 AM