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November 27, 2006
ESDC Certifies Atlantic Yards — Again
Look kids! The Empire State Development Corporation elves worked through the Thanksgiving holiday to crank out a new-and-improved Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) by Monday. Living proof that sometimes, government works!
Since omitting public comments would leave the EIS wide open to litigation, the ESDC had to backtrack and include the missing comments. Since "listening to the community" is purely pro forma, the inclusion of the missing comments had no effect on the conclusions of the report.
From The Real Estate Observer
By Matthew Schuerman
Some 148 comments from the public, 60 of them "substantive," had been left out of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for Atlantic Yards when it was certified Nov. 15, Charles Gargano, the chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, told the press on Monday.
That prompted ESDC staff to work overtime -- including over Thanksgiving weekend -- to put out a revised FEIS, including the new comments and responses to them, all of which were certified unanimously by the ESDC board on Monday morning. The new comments did not change the conclusions of the FEIS, Gargano said.
Posted by lumi at November 27, 2006 9:22 PM