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December 17, 2010
State Board to Park Slope: 10 Years, 25 Years, What's the Diff?
Park Slope Patch
by Amy Sara Clark
Fifteen years of additional construction will have no further impact on area residents, according to a Thursday vote by the state agency that oversees the Atlantic Yards project.
Robin Stout, an attorney for the Empire State Development Corporation, told the board that the agency's staff found that "further modification to an outside date of 2035 would not result in any new or substantially different significant impacts than those addressed" in the first environmental impact study.
Not different, just two-and-a-half times longer. Not different at all.
An ESDC spokesman says the board never hid the possibility the project would take 25-years, though the board's belief that the project would be likely to only take 10 years has been more prominent in construction plans.
They didn't hide it, they misplaced it. As for their beliefs, how about neighborhood residents' belief that the ESDC is full of s**t?
Posted by eric at December 17, 2010 12:19 PM