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August 4, 2006
Flawed from the get-go
Brooklyn Papers, Editorial
It looks like Norman Oder isn't the only one who has tackled the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS):
While many Brooklynites have spent the past two weeks complaining that the Empire State Development Corporation ruined everyone’s vacations by releasing its 2,000-page Atlantic Yards draft environmental impact statement during the summer, some people have actually rolled up their sleeves and started analyzing the flawed document.
One such analysis shows that the state’s DEIS grossly under-represents millions of square feet of development already built in and around the Atlantic Yards project site and ignores tens of millions more square feet of development that’s in the pipeline.
The grand total? According to Brian Ketcham, whose Community Consulting Services has been studying DEISes for 20 years, there will be 50 million square feet of new development in and around Downtown Brooklyn between now and 2025. But only 23 percent of that growth is included in the DEIS.
Ketcham's analysis lists a couple of railyards-full of buildings and projects that were left out of the DEIS traffic analysis.
Posted by lumi at August 4, 2006 2:11 AM