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July 31, 2006
Yonkers shuts out villages over lawsuit
The Jounal News
By Revecca Baker Erwin
The latest salvo in the controversy over Bruce Ratner's Ridge Hill project in Yonkers is payback for one town's bid to sue over the stat's environmental impact statement (EIS):
The villages of Ardsley and Hastings-on-Hudson, which had a contract to dump leaves and branches in Yonkers, found themselves shut out of the Nepperhan Avenue dump this month.
Officials in both villages said Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone canceled the villages' contracts as punishment for joining Greenburgh's lawsuit to put the brakes on the $600 million Ridge Hill Village project in Yonkers, just over the town line.
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Amicone spokesman David Simpson said city officials are getting tired of going to court with Greenburgh every time the city tries to boost development near the border, and didn't deny that canceling the contracts was payback.
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Brooklyn developer Forest City Ratner plans to start building 1,000 apartments, 1.3 million square feet of retail space, a hotel and entertainment venues by the end of the year. Greenburgh and the villages are challenging the project's environmental review.
NoLandGrab: Expect suits in Brooklyn over the Environmental Impact Statement, that is if many of the absurd claims in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement are left standing.
Posted by lumi at July 31, 2006 7:27 AM