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'City Council rebuffs Willets Point plan'by Sandy Ikeda
That's a headline in today's Crain's New York Business. "This plan is unacceptable, and we wish to inform you that without significant modifications, we will strongly oppose it, leaving no chance of it moving forward," 29 council members wrote to Deputy Mayor of Economic Development Robert Lieber in a letter dated Monday. "We are disappointed that our deep reservations have gone repeatedly unaddressed."(Hat tip again to JW.) While not an outright rejection, the Council has obviously handed the Bloomberg administration another setback to its mega-building ambitions (to go along with all the other ones they've suffered lately). So, at least for now, some 250 small businesses in the area just east of the new home of the Mets (Citi Field) can smile. But this thing is far from over. It's significant, for instance, that the Council's objection is aimed, not at the questionable use of eminent domain, but at an insufficient relocation plan. Thus the threat of eminent domain still looms.
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