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November 26, 2007
Council's Role in Private Development To Expand
The NY Sun
By Benjamin Sarlin
NYC has been taking a build-it-now-fix-it-later approach to large-scale development projects, including Atlantic Yards, and their attendant impacts on the City's fragile infrastructure. The City Council is trying to get involved:
The City Council is seeking to expand its role in private development with a new task force to assess new projects' impacts on city infrastructure.
The infrastructure task force, headed by Council Members Daniel Garodnick and Letitia James, would report to the council on the projected effects, in areas such as traffic, telecommunications, and energy, of large-scale plans conducted by private developers, as well as the state and federal government. The task force could examine the redevelopment of ground zero, the Atlantic Yards project, the Second Avenue subway line, and the future development of the West Side rail yards. "There is no entity today that considers the impact on city infrastructure," Mr. Garodnick said in a phone interview. "We want to take a long view and see that our infrastructure keeps pace with our development plan."
Posted by lumi at November 26, 2007 5:52 AM