| State
Environmental Quality Review (SEQR).
Ongoing... |
| The next step in the State Enironmental
Quality Review (SEQR) process will be the release of a Draft
EIS (DEIS). The public then has a chance to respond to the DEIS at
a public hearing and officially within, most likely, a 45 or 90 day
period. |
March 31, 2006. Final Scope of
Analysis Released
Final Scope of Analysis
Ratner Press Release on the Final
Scope of Analysis |
Read
the Council
of Brooklyn Neighborhoods Response to the ESDC regarding Atlantic
Yards Scoping. This is the document submitted to the ESDC. It also
contains the results of the recent survey. The pdf
file is 3.2 megs, and 325 pages long. Thank you to all those in
the community who submitted their input to CBN and the ESDC, and a
big thank you to CBN for the service they have done for the community
with this document.
Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods (CBN)
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Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods for more info... |
SCOPING TESTIMONY
AND RESPONSES BY:
State Senator Velmanette Montgomery,
18th District (pdf)
Assembly Member
Joan Millman, 52nd District
City
Council Member Letita James
Community
Board 8
Community Board 6 (pdf)
Council
of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, CBN (pdf)
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn,
DDDB (pdf)
The Fifth Avenue Committee (pdf)
Fort Greene Association (pdf)
Municipal
Art Society (pdf)
Regional Plan Association (RPA)
(pdf)
Riverkeeper, Inc & Columbia
Environmental Law Clinic (pdf)
Ten
Point Plan for Community Board 8's Participation in ESDC’s
State Environmental Quality Review of FCRC’s BAY Development
"Borough
Board" meeting minutes. |
DRAFT SCOPE of Analysis
The State
Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) process has started with
the announcment below from the lead agency overseeing Ratner's project––The
Empire State Development Corporation.
The draft scope of analysis may be downloaded below. Comments
on the draft scope of analysis may be presented at the public scoping
meeting or written comments may be sent to the address listed below.
Written comments will be accepted until 5:00 P.M. on October 28, 2005.
Supporting Documents:
–– Notice
of Public Scoping and Intent to Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (pdf)
–– Draft
Scope of Analysis (pdf)
Atlantic
Yards Arena and Redevelopment Project
Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) in conjunction with the
City of New York, New York City Economic Development Corporation and
Forest City Ratner Companies is pursuing the proposed Atlantic Yards
Arena and Redevelopment project. The proposed project involves the
construction of a major mixed-use development in the Atlantic Terminal
area of Brooklyn, occupying an approximately 22-acre area, generally
bounded by Flatbush, Atlantic, and Vanderbilt Avenues, and Dean Street,
together with a portion of the site known as Site 5 of the Atlantic
Terminal Urban Renewal Plan, on a block bounded by Flatbush Avenue,
4th Avenue, and Pacific Street. æThe proposed project includes an
arena for use by the Nets professional basketball team, as well as
residential, office, retail, hotel, open space, and parking uses.æ
The proposed project would also include the complete redevelopment
of the existing Long Island Rail Road Vanderbilt Rail Yard, and construction
of a new entrance to the Atlantic Terminal subway station at the corner
of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues. ESDC proposes to serve as lead agency
for the environmental review process for the proposed project to be
carried out under the New York State Environmental Quality Review
Act (SEQRA) and its implementing regulations.
General
Project Statistics (from the scoping document)
The development program currently includes, at full build-out, approximately
628,000 gross square feet (gsf) of commercial office space, 196,000
gsf of hotel use, 256,000 gsf of retail, up to 7.2 million gsf of
residential use (approximately 7,300 residential units),
approximately 4,000 parking spaces, more than 7 acres
of publicly-accessible open space, and the proposed 850,000 gsf arena,
which would accommodate 18,000 to 20,500 seats and provide approximately
1 acre of privately-accessible open space on the roof. The proposed
project would also provide community facilities, including a health
care center and an intergenerational community center offering child
care and youth and senior activities. As part of the proposed project,
a portion of the parcel identified as Site 5 (currently
occupied by PCRichards/Modells) of the Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal
Plan would be developed with approximately 356,000 gsf of residential
use and 347,000 gsf of office use in addition to the existing approximately
47,000 gsf of retail. In order to provide flexibility in the development
plan to allow the Project Sponsors to meet potential future demand
for office space, the proposed project also contemplates a variation
in the uses for Tower 1, Tower 2 and Site 5, such that the mixed and
residential uses planned for these buildings would be devoted to commercial
use.
A hard copy of the scoping documents may obtained by contacting ESDC
at:æ
Atlantic Yards c/o Planning & Environmental Review
Empire State Development Corporation
633 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(212) 803-3254
atlanticyards@empire.state.ny.us
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