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December 12, 2007
Doctoroff Says Community is Right: Atlantic Yards Should Have Gone Through ULURP
Project Has Not Started Construction, Mayor Bloomberg Can Still Follow Doctoroff's Advice
Yesterday, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn issued a press release calling on Mayor Bloomberg to "send the development of the Vanderbilt Yards through ULURP."
"It's notable that Doctoroff says ‘if it happened again…I would encourage them to take Atlantic Yards through the ULURP process,' because it can happened again. As the project has not begun construction—and can't http://dddb.net/php/status.phpwhile it faces two court challenges—Mayor Bloomberg can get it right and send the development of the Vanderbilt Yards through ULURP; it's what his soon-to-be former, highly praised and trusted right hand man thinks is appropriate."
NoLandGrab: Mayor Bloomberg can't "send" the project back to NYC's land use review process (ULURP), because, by law, the State of NY can supercede the jurisdiction of any municipality. What the Mayor failed to do was to use his bully pulpit, from the beginning, to pressure developer Bruce Ratner and the State to allow the project to go through the local review process.
The notion of the project reversing course and going through ULURP is silly, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
The essential value of Doctoroff's comments to The NY Observer is that it proves that those who have called on the project to go through ULURP, so that our local elected legislators could (we hope) have some input into the project, were, in the end, right, and now everyone knows it.
Posted by lumi at December 12, 2007 6:03 AM