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October 30, 2005
Ratner execs huddle with heads of CB2
Another Community Board/Ratner scandal is brewing:
Two days after skipping the first public hearing on the environmental impact of the proposed Atlantic Yards mega-development, the executive committee [of Community Board 2] met privately with Forest City Ratner Executive Vice President James Stuckey and other top company brass.
Though some Board Members felt the meeting was "innapropriate":
Jon Quint, a member of the CB2 transportation committee and a former chair of the committee, said he didn’t see anything sinister about the private meeting.
“Most of the real work gets done in the committee meetings whether it’s the executive committee or the traffic committee,” he said. “That’s where the nitty-gritty gets done and if they had a meeting with Forest City Ratner, I am sure they got more done then we ever would at a public meeting.”
NoLandGrab: The testimony of members of CB6 and 8 made the absence of CB2 at the ESDC hearing all the more conspicuous.
Posted by lumi at October 30, 2005 4:54 PM