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November 6, 2007
The Carlton Avenue bridge closure: my errors, ESDC's error
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Norman Oder runs a correction, explains the error (the trail leads back to changes made between the Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements), and wonders if the Empire State Development Corporation will shed some more light on the matter:
The source of the information was a document sent by a community board member that I erroneously believed to be an ESDC document; rather, it appears to be the summary of a meeting held at the ESDC.
And what was the most surprising piece of information to me, that the bridge would be closed two years, wasn't exactly new--and the reference to it in the community board document wasn't incorrect. Late in the day the ESDC pointed me to the Construction Impacts chapter, where changes are noted from the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).
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So, between the DEIS and the FEIS, the construction timetable changed. However, those changes were not marked on the Construction Schedule that remained attached to the FEIS. Those of us who relied on the schedule rather than the text of the chapter were misled.
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Let's see if the ESDC corrects its error. After all, the agency's board approved the FEIS without anyone pointing out that the Proposed Construction Schedule was already out of date (various activities were supposed to have started 11/1/06, more than a month earlier) and had not been updated to reflect changes made since the DEIS was issued.
NoLandGrab: It's no surprise that there are discrepancies within different parts of the Final Environmental Impact Statement, since the State of NY was in a big rush to get it done while the Pataki administration still held power in Albany. After all, the ESDC worked through the Thanksgiving holiday in order to correct those errors it managed to catch.
Posted by lumi at November 6, 2007 7:16 AM