FASNY: FEIS COMPLETE?

  We write once again regarding the FASNY development. We continue to believe that this development is wrong for the City and wrong for the neighborhoods which it will harm.
   Focusing on the topic of traffic, the FEIS does not establish that the detrimental effects of FASNY can be mitigated successfully. FASNY rejected the North Street entrance as a feasible alternative in the DFEIS, and has not shown in the FEIS that this is a satisfactory option. The plan hinges substantially, if not completely, on a mandatory busing program. However, no developer, including FASNY, can accurately predict, and forever control, the continued availability of such a program. If the City grants a special permit on the condition that a mandatory busing program be used, there is absolutely no guarantee that such a program can or will continue in the future. Once FASNY builds, and the ability to carry out a mandatory busing program is impaired, the problems which the program seeks to mitigate will then exist. 
   Further, the North Street access option will negatively impact multiple roads and intersections which are already overburdened. The fact remains that FASNY is simply too extensive a project for the residential neighborhoods which will sustain negative impacts due to this development.
   Focusing on traffic alone, FASNY has not, and cannot, show that its operations will not be more objectionable to nearby properties than the permitted use. Since FASNY does not meet this standard on the basis of traffic alone, the City may, and should, deny a special permit. 
   Thank you for your consideration. 
Joseph & Denise DeMarzo