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September 16, 2011
CB2 Votes To Support Atlantic Yards Bollard Plan
DOT hearing on issue to be held in early October.
Park Slope Patch
by Paul Leonard
A controversial plan to install bollards at Atlantic Yards moved forward Wednesday evening with a vote by Community Board 2 to support the construction of 206 barriers around the perimeter of the Barclays Center site.
According to Atlantic Yards Report, an executive with Forest City Ratner, Jane Marshall, confirmed there would be an October hearing set on the issue.
At CB2's regular monthly meeting, Marshall hinted that a portion of the sidewalk going eastbound toward Sixth Avenue would be close to coming under a width of 20 feet due to a temporary construction barrier tied to a residential portion of the site.
That admission seemed likely to stoke neigborhood concerns about a bottleneck for arena-bound pedestrians.
NoLandGrab: Actually, that portion of sidewalk along Atlantic Avenue just west of Sixth Avenue will be less than 10 feet wide, with an "effective width" of five-and-a-half feet, for perhaps several years. And that was not disclosed in the worthless Environmental Impact Statement.
Posted by eric at September 16, 2011 11:46 AM