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November 19, 2009
New lawsuit challenging AY approval to be announced today by BrooklynSpeaks members, elected officials, others
Atlantic Yards Report
Groups in the BrooklynSpeaks coalition–originally following a “mend-it-don’t-end-it policy”–today will file their first lawsuit, word of which first emerged last month.
It will be interesting to see how much this case, which challenges the Empire State Development Corporation's approval of the Modified General Project Plan and failure to pursue a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, overlaps with (and may be consolidated with) a case filed by Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn that raises some similar issues.
Notably, the lawyer on the new case is Al Butzel of the Urban Environmental Law Center, who led the legal fight against Westway.
Also...
The Local, Another AY Suit Tomorrow
NoLandGrab: This coalition of community groups has stood separately from the Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn coalition, primarily because they were seeking to work with the State and developer Bruce Ratner to mitigate some of the environmental impacts of the project and to find a way to allow for more community input.
However, recently the process took a turn away from more input, when the Empire State Development Corporation and MTA approved changes to the project, leaving these groups out in the cold, with the understanding that a lawsuit would be the only way to make their point and advance the coalition's interests.
Posted by lumi at November 19, 2009 6:51 AM