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December 19, 2006
Regional Plan Association, Citizens Union, more groups call for AY delay
Atlantic Yards Report
The message got more backing yesterday: Atlantic Yards is not ready for prime time.
The forces seeking to slow consideration of the Atlantic Yards project grew in strength yesterday as the influential Regional Plan Association (RPA) and the Citizens Union, groups that, respectively, had offered cautious support for the project and had not weighed in, called for the Public Authorities Control Board (PACB) to delay its vote.
(Later, NY1 reported that the PACB would stall the project.)
The press conference on City Hall steps was organized by the Municipal Art Society (MAS), which has called for major changes before project approval, and the groups assembled took pains not to be portrayed as opponents of development. “We’re not here to kill the project,” declared MAS President Kent Barwick. “We’re here to resuscitate the role of the public.”
Exactly how that might occur remains a question, but the groups expressed hope that a new state administration under incoming Governor Eliot Spitzer—a project supporter—would take a fresh look at Atlantic Yards.
Posted by lumi at December 19, 2006 9:46 AM