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Hudson Yards FGEIS CITY PLANNING COMMISSION -and- METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY -------------------------------------------x Public Hearing : Re: : Hudson Yards DEIS : -------------------------------------------x Haft Auditorium Fashion Institute of Technology 227 West 27th Street New York, New York September 23, 2004 9:20 a.m. B e f o r e: AMANDA M. BURDEN Chair City Planning Commission The Chair -and- WILLIAM WHEELER Director of Special Project Development and Planning MTA VOLUME I _____________________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 2 A P P E A R A N C E S: For City Planning Commission: Angela M. Battaglia Irwin G. Cantor Angela R. Cavaluzzi Richard W. Eaddy Jane Gol Kenneth Knuckles, Vice Chair Christopher Kui John Merolo Karen A. Phillips Dolly Williams S P E A K E R S _____________________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 3 Speaker Page MICHELLE ADAMS.................................22 MARK GINSBERG..................................26 MICHAEL J. McGUIRE.............................31 STEVEN SPINOLA.................................36 DANA COMFORT...................................39 JOHN TURCHIANO.................................41 RICHARD T. ANDERSON............................45 EDWARD J. MALLOY...............................48 BETSY GOTBAUM..................................49 ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD GOTTFRIED..................54 CAROL DEMECH...................................58 MARK LEVINE....................................61 KITTY BURKE....................................68 LEWIS D. GITLIN................................72 HOWARD HORNSTEIN...............................75 BORO PRESIDENT C. VIRGINIA FIELDS..............79 HARVEY EPSTEIN.................................88 CRISTYNE NICHOLAS..............................92 KATHRYN WYLDE..................................96 HENRY WOLLMAN.................................100 S P E A K E R S _____________________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 4 Speaker Page ROBERT GERARD.................................103 ROBERT GEDDES.................................105 HOWARD GOLDMAN................................109 DENNIS IPPOLITO...............................113 JEREMY SOFFIN.................................118 WALTER MANKOFF................................122 LEE COMPTON...................................128 ANNA LEVIN....................................132 GERALD SCHOENFELD.............................136 DAN JACOBY....................................143 JORDAN AUSLANDER..............................147 ADAM HONIGMAN.................................150 BARBARA FELDT.................................152 FRANK FORD....................................156 THOMAS DOHERTY................................158 ROBIN DELK....................................161 HOWARD BABICH.................................164 JEFFREY ZUPAN.................................168 ABRAHAM HIRSCHFELD............................174 GAIL MARQUIS..................................178 S P E A K E R S _____________________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 5 Speaker Page SHEREE SANO...................................183 TERESA TORO...................................186 ERIC SCHWARTZ.................................190 MICHAEL GERRARD...............................191 MARNIE McGREGOR...............................194 ROBERT RODGERS................................198 CAROL CONWAY..................................201 JEFFREY L. GREENE.............................205 RICHARD KAPUSCINSKI...........................210 TOM McMORROW..................................215 PAUL WILLIAMS.................................219 * * * P R O C E E D I N G S _____________________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 6 1 THE CHAIR: Good morning, everyone, and welcome. My name is Amanda Burden and I am Chair of the New York City Planning Commission. VOICES: Louder. Louder. THE CHAIR: Let me try it again. We want to make sure everything goes really well. Okay. Can you hear me a little better? A VOICE: Yes. THE CHAIR: Okay. My name is Amanda Burden and I am the Chair of the New York City Planning Commission. And I want to first start this morning by thanking Lisa Wager, who is the Director of Government and Community Affairs here at FIT. And she is just going to say a few words before we actually begin the proceeding. Ms. Wager. MS. WAGER: Thank you. Well, the thanks should really go to our President, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, who is the one who has opened up the college to host the many Hudson Yards hearings that many of you have come to. _________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 7 1 So I just wanted to welcome most of you back yet again to FIT and say that we're really proud to be able to step up and serve as the town hall in our community and be able to provide the space for these important public functions. Thank you. And good luck. (Applause.) THE CHAIR: Okay. Let's start. I want to welcome you all here today to this public hearing on the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Program and No. 7 Subway Extension. I want to speak for just a few moments about what will be happening here today. What I am about to say is rather technical so bear with me, but it is important to set forth these issues for the record. Today's hearing is being conducted for two purposes. First, it is a public hearing conducted pursuant to the City's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, to receive public comment with respect to several ULURP applications related to the redevelopment program. _________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 8 1 These include: Applications to amend the City Zoning Map and the Text of the City Zoning Resolution; To amend the City Map with respect to the creation of new streets and parks; To establish new City facilities consisting of a municipal public parking garage and a multi-agency garage facility; And to authorize various acquisitions and dispositions of property related to implementation of the Hudson Yards Plan. The applications being heard today include both those certified by City Planning on June 21, 2004, as well as those modified applications filed by the Department and calendared for hearing on September 8, 2004, what we call the ATEXT. The ULURP applications and the Land Use and Urban Design Plan they are designed to implement have been the subject of over a hundred presentations and discussions with community groups, civic organizations, elected officials, professional societies of architects, planners and engineers, business groups and others over the past two-and-a- _________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 9 1 half years. I will not describe the applications or the plan again today because the purpose of the hearing is not for us to present but for you to comment. I do want to way, however, how excited I am that we have reached this important milestone for this project that is so essential to the future of the City of New York. I also want to thank all those who have contributed to the development of the plan through their comments, insights and other input. Secondly, today's public hearing is being conducted pursuant to the requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, and the City Environmental Quality Review Act, or CQRA, in order to receive public comment with respect to the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement or DGEIS, prepared by the City Planning Commission and the MTA as co-lead agencies for the redevelopment program. For that purpose the SEQRA/the CQRA hearing is being conducted jointly by the City Planning Commission and the MTA, which is represented _________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10175 (212) 840-1167 10 1 by William Wheeler, Director -- all the way down there -- of Special Project Development and Planning for the MTA. As you may know, the DGEIS analyzes all aspects of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Program including the zoning and other land use related actions subject to City approval, the No. 7 subway line extension and the proposed expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and the proposed construction of the New York Sports and Convention Center. As the name indicates, the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement is a draft. The purpose of today's hearing as it relates to this draft is to hear your comments and concerns so that the co-lead agencies - the City Planning Commission and the MTA - can consider and respond to the comments in the preparation of a Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement. Insofar as the Javits Center expansion and the New York Sports and Convention Center are concerned, it is important to keep in mind that today's hearing is focused on consideration of _________________________________________________ ROY ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10175
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