The City Council is seeking to expand its role in private development with a new task force to assess new projects' impacts on city infrastructure.Council's Role in Private Development To Expand
The infrastructure task force, headed by Council Members Daniel Garodnick and Letitia James, would report to the council on the projected effects, in areas such as traffic, telecommunications, and energy, of large-scale plans conducted by private developers, as well as the state and federal government. The task force could examine the redevelopment of ground zero, the Atlantic Yards project, the Second Avenue subway line, and the future development of the West Side rail yards. "There is no entity today that considers the impact on city infrastructure," Mr. Garodnick said in a phone interview. "We want to take a long view and see that our infrastructure keeps pace with our development plan."
(And ensure themselves more lobbying money, too.)
3 comments:
So why don't they put these projects on ice until this review is accomplished?
Where is the public input in this process?
Why just large projects?
40 five story buildings has more inpact than one 50 story buildings you nitwits!
Is this going to be another "task farce" ?
After all the BS....
the City Council will wind up
approving all projects that are
proposed by "influential"
(campaign contributing) builders.
H-m-m-m.....
we know when we're being tweeded !
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