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December 28, 2007
Balancing community input regarding the West Side yards
Atlantic Yards Report
They're discussing traffic and infrastructure and sustainability and open space before any developer is chosen for the West Side yards.
This goes well beyond the Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement or housing advocate Bertha Lewis of ACORN candidly saying, "I can't do environment. I can’t do traffic."
And it's not a developer-funded poll, as with the New Domino development, that sets out a false choice between tall buildings with affordable housing and smaller buildings without it, without presenting the details of the project under discussion.
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This doesn't mean community input will have a definitive impact. But it shows the difference between a competition, as with the West Side yards, and a project, as with AY and the New Domino, presented in an effort to gain state approval or a zoning change.
Posted by lumi at December 28, 2007 4:27 AM