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July 19, 2006
Environmental Review Downplays Arena Project's Impact
WNYC News Radio
By Andrea Bernstein
According to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards, the densest project in the US and the largest single-source project in NYC history, will have little effect on Brooklyn, except for necessitating a new school, casting some shadows and maybe leading to more traffic.
REPORTER: The 4000 report finds the 16 high rises and Nets arena would have a negligible effect on air pollution, parking, sanitation, sewage, mass transit, or police and fire response times. Opponents reacted with disbelief, arguing that tens of thousands of new residents and sports fans would leave more of a footprint.
But developer Forest City Ratner's Jim Stuckey says the design took potential problems in account.
STUCKEY: Here, what we did, what the state did is work very hard to basically use the document as a way of appropriately planning the project to get rid of impacts before they occur.
NoLandGrab: If all this is true, NoLandGrab will suddenly seem very foolish.
Posted by lumi at July 19, 2006 8:51 PM