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August 29, 2006
Scale Scam
DDDB.net
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn is calling it a "Scale Scam." Whatever the name, the game remains the same.
Don’t be fooled.
Developers have long padded the scale of proposed projects, and then sat back while communities cried foul. Once the press has voiced the public’s concerns, the developers, amidst massive fanfare and a show of magnanimity, role back the project by 25% or less – removing the padding – and claiming responsiveness to the people’s concerns.
DDDB's assesment is followed by its growing list of concerns about the project which would not be addressed by a simple scaleback: * The proposed location of the basketball arena (There is a way out of that problem...) * extreme density, * environmental and socio-economic impacts, * eminent domain abuse, and * an undemocratic process.
For details and links, click here.
Posted by lumi at August 29, 2006 9:15 AM