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June 16, 2010
New Council Land Use Chair Leroy Comrie: "I think Atlantic Yards... should've come before the Council, definitely"
Atlantic Yards Report
It's conventional wisdom these days that Atlantic Yards should have gone through the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), and that's what we hear in a Commercial Observer interview with the chair of the City Council's Land Use Committee, Queens Council Member Leroy Comrie: The Sheriff of Land Use....
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Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, Getting Back to the Original Sin of Atlantic Yards
The new chair of the City Council's Land Use Committee explains why, in part, it was wrong for Atlantic Yards to bypass the entire City Council and the City's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, aka ULURP. ULURP provides for multiple publich hearings on the project itself and votes by community boards, borough presidents, council committees including land use, city planning and, finally, the entire City Council. In stark contrast Atlantic Yards did not require the vote of a single elected official and only underwent a fantastical environmental impact disclosure process.
Posted by eric at June 16, 2010 11:17 AM