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December 11, 2007
Doctoroff Looks Back on Atlantic Yards
The Real Estate
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The New York Observer's Matthew Schuerman, one of the more astute observers of Atlantic Yards, offers up an online teaser for a longer article coming in tomorrow's newspaper:
Critics of Atlantic Yards repeatedly argue that there is something about the 22-acre housing and arena complex in Brooklyn that does not jibe with the Bloomberg administration’s rhetoric about community participation in the planning process. In an article appearing in tomorrow’s Observer, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff basically agrees.
“I am a huge believer in the ULURP process,” he said, referring to the seven-month public-review process that involves the local community board, the borough president, the City Planning Commission and the City Council. “If it happened again, and the state were to ask if I would encourage them to take Atlantic Yards through the ULURP process, I would say yes.”
NoLandGrab: Of course, in hindsight, Doctoroff would recommend that Atlantic Yards go through ULURP, it would have shaved several months off of the review/approval process.
Posted by lumi at December 11, 2007 2:27 PM