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July 18, 2007
Justice Madden to take more time, case status revised to "complex"
Please be advised that Index No 104597/2007 Don't Destroy Brooklyn vs. Urban Dev. Motion Sequences (01, ) has been changed from Standard to Complex and Justice Joan Madden will have 120 days to decide this motions.
This was the news from a court memo attached to an email from Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
From the email:
The attached letter was sent yesterday (the date on the letter appears to be a typo) from the court to attorneys on DDDB et. al. v. ESDC et. al.
The letter is regarding the legal challenge in State Supreme Court by 26 co-petitioners to the State's Environmental Impact Statement, review and approval of Atlantic Yards.
All papers and information about that suit are here: http://www.dddb.net/FEIS
The letter states that the case has been changed from "Standard" to "Complex" and that Justice Joan Madden now has 120 days to make a decision; that is 120 days (instead of 60) from the time of the oral argument which was held on May 3rd.
NoLandGrab: Atlantic Yards freaks and geeks have been holding their breath each day, expecting a decision to be handed down at any moment.
Though developer Bruce Ratner is moving ahead on any front he possibly can, this delay, no doubt, will cost the developer millions of dollars and has got to make him concerned.
Those who have been following every detail of Ratner's superblock zoning-overriding arena-highrise megalopolis have long held the opinion that if NY State's laws governing environmental reviews can't find anything wrong with Atlantic Yards, then what project could possibly be stopped? [OK, hypothetically, a sewage treatment plant in a protected watershed with the last remaining bald eagle nest might not sail through an environmental review.]
Posted by lumi at July 18, 2007 8:24 AM