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September 29, 2006
More Find Fault With Atlantic Yards Review
The NY Times
By Nicholas Confessore
On the final day for public comment on the state’s draft environmental review of the Atlantic Yards project, a coalition of Brooklyn neighborhood associations, churches and businesses will today be the latest to sharply criticize the review.
The criticisms are in a report that asks why the environmental review provided no evidence for its assertion that police and fire department response times would be unaffected by the project, which would house upward of 15,000 residents in an area now home to several hundred.
A 60-day period for public comment on the review, issued in late July by the Empire State Development Corporation, ends today. The state agency will consider the comments before making a final report.
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Therese Urban, co-chairwoman of the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, said in a statement, “Due to the number and profound nature of the errors and shortcomings” of the draft environmental impact statement, her group “does not believe the current document can be approved.”
Posted by lumi at September 29, 2006 10:17 AM