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August 7, 2009
At CBN meeting: why comments on AY are needed, why they might be ignored, and why they might play a role in litigation
Atlantic Yards Report
Norman Oder reports on last night's "Community Informational Meeting" on the Atlantic Yards Modified General Project Plan.
Atlantic Yards may have been wounded, but it is hardly dead. Can public comments--due by August 31--hasten its demise?
Maybe, but only indirectly. That was a main message of the meeting last night held by the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods (CBN), a group set up initially to respond to the Draft EIS (environmental impact statement), which later became a plaintiff in the still-pending lawsuit challenging the EIS.
About 85 people attended the meeting, held at the Irondale Theater space in the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Fort Greene and co-sponsored by the Fort Greene Association.
Tom Angotti, professor of planning at Hunter College, laid out a series of areas in which the latest documentation by the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) is insufficient. The single most important part, he said, was the argument for a modified EIS. “The project has changed enough that they have to go back and re-study it.”
Posted by eric at August 7, 2009 10:25 AM