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December 7, 2006
Transportation consultants blast FEIS, say it should be rejected
Atlantic Yards Report
In a blistering letter sent yesterday to the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) and numerous elected officials, Carolyn Konheim and Brian Ketcham of Community Consulting Services warned that the Atlantic Yards Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) is deeply flawed regarding transportation impacts and should be rejected.
In fact, wrote the pair, who are transportation consultants to the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, “numerous egregious errors and omissions” in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement remain unchanged and certain deficiencies “became more pronounced in the FEIS.”
The transportation consultants go into detail about weaknesses and omissions in the Final Environmental Impact Statement.
Yesterday, as a final eff-you, the ESDC dumped 600 pages of documents that were requested by Brian Ketcham during the DRAFT Environmental Impact Statement process this past summer. The "release" of the documents comes two days before the ESDC will approve the Environmental Impact Statement, leaving no time for analysis.
Posted by lumi at December 7, 2006 6:58 AM