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THE FINAL SCOPE
April's Fools
Forest City Ratner Releases Final
Scope of Analysis saying proposal has been scaled down.
Well, that is Orwellian as it has grown 659,000 sq. feet
since it was unveiled 27 months ago, and it remains the
BIGGEST project ever proposed by a single developer in the history
of New York City...
Dec 2003: 8 million
March 2006: 8.659 million
The plan remains an
urban planning disaster. It still continues to abuse and use the
threat of eminent domain. It is still out of scale, density and character
with its surroundings. It is still going through an unaccountable,
backroom, non-transparent, non-inclusive, undemocratic process. It
would still overwhelm its surrounding communities and pickpocket city
and state taxpayers.
And it is still a destructive, publicly-subsidized,
backroom, sweetheart deal.
We will be reviewing the final scoping document over the next few
days to determine if it has included the massive amounts of community
response to the draft scope. What we have seen so far is that
the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS),
which might come out in late May or early June, will include a point-by-point
comparison to Extell's
community-based plan, the UNITY
Community Plan, and the Pacific
Plan.
Press Coverage:
"Coming
way back"? FCR disses Gehry's prediction, lies twice in press
release - Atlantic Yards Report
Newspaper
Headline Claims Corporate Press Release to be Entirely True
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