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Community?
Another
lawsuit for Atlantic Yards project
The Amsterdam News.by
Leslie Ann Murray
A determined collation of Brooklyn-based community groups filed a lawsuit
to annul the environmental review and approval of Atlantic Yards.
...
Besides the environmental concerns with regarding the Atlantic Yards project,
the groups’ main chagrin was that the Brooklyn community was marginalized
from participating in critical dialogues concerning the project.
“Another delay in the Atlantic Yards project means delaying economic opportunity
for many in the Brooklyn community,” Delia Hunley-Adossa, chair of the Community
Benefits Agreement Executive Committee, stated. She added, “Those opposing
the project can afford delays, but what of the over 2,000 who are clamoring
for jobs?”
Daniel Goldstein, a spokesperson for the community group Develop Don’t Destroy
Brooklyn explained, “This lawsuit is trying to ensure that an accurate environmental
review has been done, and it’s not a delay to anything."...
Full
article
In partnering with Forest City Ratner, Ms. Hunley-Adossa's role in the "Community"
"Benefits" "Agreement" was to oversee environmental compliance.
We've not seen evidence that anything has come from that role, but here she is
attacking 26 community and civic groups who filed
a lawsuit last week to challenge that very thing–the deeply flawed environmental
review of the "Atlantic Yards" project.
The serious negative impacts that the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC)
failed to identify, as well as their failure to equire mitigation for project
impacts, will harm all Brooklynites, regardless of their economic status. These
harms cannot be justified by the few hundred jobs, that Ratner has promised without
guarantee, to the community. Which is seriously unfortunate for the "2,000
people clamoring" for those few hundred jobs that might come from the project.
Surely Brooklyn deserves, and can have, jobs, envrionmental protection, and
good govenment.
Also, as NoLandGrab
points out, the name-calling from the CBA's Environmental Compliance representative
seems misplaced:
...Hunley-Addosa is supposed to have the neighborhood's back when
it comes to bad things that may happen in the neighborhood as a result of construction--like
the time Ratner workers
turned off the neighborhood's water.
Also, Norman Oder of Atlantic Yards Report has pointed out on
his blog and in an article
in the Brooklyn Downtown Star that critics of construction delays remained
mute when landscape
designer Laurie Olin and Forest
City exec Charles Ratner both intimated that Atlantic Yards would take decades
to build.
Posted: 4.13.07
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