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February 12, 2008
The new Community Advisory Committee has a seat for the CBA, but the ESDC won't say why
Atlantic Yards Report
The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) has begun to recruit a reconstituted and expanded Atlantic Yards Community Advisory Committee (CAC), to meet quarterly and provide comment on the project, and is asking local elected officials for nominations.
Only the chair of the Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) Executive Committee gets an automatic seat, but the ESDC hasn't explained why.
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Why does the CBA get a seat while other organizations, such as the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods (CBN), not get one? CBN produced an extensive critique of the environmental impact statement and has open meetings, unlike the CBA. Then again, CBN is a plaintiff in the pending lawsuit over the environmental review.When I spoke with Taylor on Monday, February 4, he said he'd get back to me with a statement. Three days later, he said I should contact the ESDC press office, which I did, twice, with no response so far.
NoLandGrab: This illustrates a very serious problem with Atlantic Yards's lack-of-process — by circumventing local land-use review procedures, the sponsoring state agency, developer and political supporters are making things up as they go along and then pretending that they're jumping through hoops in the interest of the public. It would be funny, if it weren't so serious.
Posted by lumi at February 12, 2008 6:14 AM