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November 28, 2007
DDDB Threefer
A Question for the Atlantic Yards Ombudsman
There is a particularly pressing question that many, including elected officials have been asking:
What makes the Brooklyn arena's proximity to streets different from the Newark arena that it will not require street closings?
Fine for Brooklyn's Conflicted Commissioner
Oddly, more than three years after DDDB lodged a complaint about former Brooklyn-appointed City Planning Commissioner Dolly Williams with the city's Conflict of Interest Board for her conflict — owning a share of Bruce Ratner's Nets while simultaneously sitting on a commission that took a vote that would benefit the Atlantic Yards developer during the Downtown Brooklyn rezoning in 2004 — the Board has issued a report and fined Ms. Williams $4,000 according to the Wonkster blog.
Atlantic Yards Critic Appointed to City Planning
It's nice for Brooklyn to have a representative on the Planning Commission again who can be independent of Mr. Markowitz and the interests of the real estate industry.
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Chairwoman McRae and her Community Board 2 members were very critical of the Atlantic Yard project's Environmental Impact Statement and its findings, as well as the process that bypassed the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure and thus her Board, and the project's abuse of eminent domain.
Posted by lumi at November 28, 2007 4:08 AM