[CPEO-BIF] Lighthouse Pointe (NY) adverse ruling

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lighthouse Pointe project's ruling overturned

Alan Morrell
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
February 7, 2009

IRONDEQUOIT - A proposed $200 million residential and retail complex 
along the Genesee River near Lake Ontario is in peril because of a court 
ruling issued Friday.

The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court overturned an earlier 
court ruling that would have allowed the proposed 47-acre Lighthouse 
Pointe development to be part of the state Brownfields Cleanup Program.

That program provides tax credits and other incentives for re-use of 
contaminated sites.

"It's definitely in jeopardy," said Alan Knauf, a lawyer for project 
developer Charles Morgan, who said he would appeal the latest ruling 
with the state Court of Appeals. "If we don't win this case, (Lighthouse 
Pointe) is not going to happen. The state will have succeeded in 
preventing development at the Port of Rochester, at a toxic waste site, 
and it's just going to sit there."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090207/NEWS01/902070335/1002/NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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