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November 15, 2006
Rubberstamped!
From Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn:
As expected, this morning the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), the lead agency for the Ratner "Atlantic Yards" proposal,
certifiedrubberstamped the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the project. This is NOT an approval of the project but rather it is the ESDC Board giving its okay to accept and make public the FEIS. The Board now must take a minimum of ten days until it meets again to approve the findings of the FEIS, the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) findings, the eminent domain findings and provisions of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) Act. The ESDC said today that that meeting will take place "at a later date."
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The FEIS is online now at http://www.empire.state.ny.us/AtlanticYards/FEIS.asp. A key chapter is chapter 24 volume 2 which contains the more than 1,600 comments the ESDC received in response to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and the ESDC's response to those comments. Other news that came out of the meeting was that the commerical office space has been reduced even further by about 40% thus further reducing the number of possible jobs even more than the 75% reduction in office jobs from the day the project was announced in December 2003. Some good news from the FEIS is that IF the project is built (and that is a BIG IF) a school would be constructed in Phase II of the project. No word yet on who would pay for that school or the Department of Education's commitment to constructing a school.
Posted by lumi at November 15, 2006 5:10 PM