FASNY: Moratorium Unfair, Will Cost White Plains

The following is a statement from the French American School of New York's position on the moratorium passed by the White Plains Common Council on Monday.

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FASNY calls the moratorium unfair, unnecessary and says it will cost the city, what do you think about the passage of the six-moth moratorium? Tell us in the comments?

Statement from FASNY:

The French-American School of New York (FASNY) understands and appreciates the goals of preserving and maximizing open space in the City, as well as enacting regulations that protect and enhance the city’s natural resources and sensitive environmental areas.

Our application for creating a low-density park-like campus on the Ridgeway property, which we plan to submit to the City next month, will unquestionably reflect those objectives. Our plan, which conforms to the vision and goals of the City’s Comprehensive Plan, will preserve over 60 acres of permanent and publically accessible open space for the City. It will also concentrate development of the site to one section of the property with less than percent of the site covered with impervious surfaces.

We expect that our application will be subject to the rigorous public review provided under the city’s existing environmental regulations and special permit process.

We believe that the moratorium is unfairly targeted at a limited number of properties, including our Ridgeway property. We also believe that the moratorium is unnecessary from a technical and regulatory perspective, and will generate unnecessary legal exposure for the City, procedural confusion and additional financial costs for the City.   

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