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December 12, 2005
Yonkers council OKs Ridge Hill in 4-3 vote
The Journal News
by Michael Gannon
Ratner's controversial Ridge Hill project received a final vote last Friday, when after last month's contentious vote to change the rules to override the County's rejection of a zoning change, the City Council held a special session to approve the new zoning.
Project supporters cheered, claiming it was "time to close the deal." Opponents are looking forward to a judge's ruling in January, that could "undo... the council's actions... on procedural grounds."
NoLandGrab: Opponents of Ratner's Atlantic Yards project feel that the Ridge Hill deal in Yonkers illustrates the political clout of Forest City Ratner, and the lengths to which government officials will go in order to push through Ratner projects over local concerns.
In Brooklyn, Ratner scored a political coup when, in an extraordinary move, the NY State Economic Development Corporation officially took over the Atlantic Yards project, even though most of the land contained in the project is NOT state-owned.
Posted by lumi at December 12, 2005 9:33 AM