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November 30, 2006
High crime in footprint? FEIS ignores the criticism
Atlantic Yards
The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) in the Response to Comments section of the Atlantic Yards Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), aims to offer "a summary of these relevant comments and a response to each." (Emphasis added)
Many responses might be seen as incomplete, but at least they're responses. When it comes to dubious charges of high crime in the Atlantic Yards footprint, charges raised in the ESDC's Blight Study but severely criticized (by me, at first), the ESDC has ignored the issue.
Essentially, the ESDC responded to criticism of their conclusion that there is higher crime in the footprint than the surrounding area, by stating that: * there are other reasons to declare the footprint blighted and * they didn't say that the surrounding area was blighted.
Posted by lumi at November 30, 2006 11:06 AM