« Hunley-Adossa palm card claims alliance with anti-AY candidate Norman "Siegal" | Main | Primary Election Round-up: Atlantic Yards edition »
September 15, 2009
YOU'RE INVITED: Atlantic Yards Rubberstamp Party (RSVP Required)
Thursday
September 17, 2009 - 10:30 a.m.
ESDC Offices
633 Third Avenue (btw 40-41) in Manhattan.
37th Floor
DDDB.net, Thurs, 9/17: ESDC's Rubberstampers Rush To Re-approve Ratner's Phantom Project
Seventeen days after the close of the public comment period and one week after arena renderings were released, without renderings of any other part of the Atlantic Yards proposal, the ESDC is preparing to rubberstamp their second approval of the project.
Keep in mind that the ESDC has to respond to all on point comments submitted by the public, such as these commetns from DDDB, this Kahr Real Estate Services's fiscal feasibility study and response to the modified plan by Dr. Tom Angotti each submitted by the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods. And scores of other substantive comments from other organizations and individuals (including DDDB co-founder Daniel Goldstein.) Many of these comments conclude that a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement must be undertaken by the ESDC.
Atlantic Yards Report, As expected, ESDC vote on Atlantic Yards will be Thursday; RSVP required
Is there any chance that the ESDC board will vote against the project? No.
Is there any chance there will be a dissenting vote, as at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board meeting in June? Unlikely.
Will they ask any more incisive questions than they did when they first rubber-stamped the project in December 2006? We'll see--there surely are, as DDDB notes, serious comments that deserve response.
Posted by lumi at September 15, 2009 6:01 PM