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August 23, 2006
Calling Time-Out on DEIS
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Nik Kovac
On issues of substance, the Atlantic Yards proposal for Prospect Heights has divided many Brooklynites. On issues of process, however, it has so far been a uniting force. They agree, nearly unanimously, that it stinks.
Indeed, it is hard for them (except a few diehard supporters like Borough President Marty Markowitz and the CBA signatories) to look at the limited public review period - both its timing and its scope - offered up by the Pataki administration and not blink. Then shake their heads. Then blink again.
What smells like a practical joke is, in fact, what the state's development agency - the ESDC - is offering up with a straight face. There are several overlapping reasons why almost everyone who has followed the massive development proposal closely finds the ESDC's position to be laughable.
Posted by lumi at August 23, 2006 11:02 AM