Community group sues LPC

From the NY Observer:

In late March, opponents of the planned condo conversion there re-heated last summer’s landmarking controversy with a lawsuit against the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The suit, filed by the Williamsburg Independent People, claims the commission failed to properly disclose why it denied landmark status for the buildings that surround the hulking red-brick refinery...

When WIP members requested that the remaining buildings be considered for landmark status, LPC responded by saying the whole site had been reviewed in its initial evaluation. WIP then filed suit, claiming the LPC process allows the commission’s chairman too much power to decide which requests advance beyond the preliminary evaluation committee, without any indication as to how that decision is made.