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August 13, 2006
CB2 Holds Hot Summer Hearing On Atlantic Yards - Precious Little Time For Public Weigh - In On Massive Project
Courier-Life's Stephen Witt says "Opponents were out in force against the proposed Atlantic Yards development at the Community Board 2 open hearing regarding the issue." But you wouldn't be able to tell that from his coverage of the hearing, which includes an equal number of comments from opponents and proponents, and a picture of proponents.
Carolyn Konheim, of Community Consulting Services, Inc., said that although the density of the project is repeatedly justified by the confluence of 12 subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road nearby, the DEIS comes to the conclusion that the project will have no impact on subway crowding.The DEIS assumed only about a quarter of the historic and predictable growth of subway trips from the rest of Brooklyn into Downtown Brooklyn and it leaves out trips from 53 percent of development in the pipeline to be built by 2016, Konheim testified.
Posted by amy at August 13, 2006 12:35 PM