[CPEO-BIF] Lighthouse Pointe, Irondequoit, New York appeal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developer to take case to State's Highest Court

By Linda Quinlan
Irondequoit Post (NY)
May 1, 2009

Irondequoit, N.Y. -

There may yet be some hope for a major development project in northwest 
Irondequoit.

A state appellate court will allow the Court of Appeals - New York's 
highest court - to hear an appeal of the lower court's ruling that 
denied environmental cleanup money for a site eyed for a project called 
Lighthouse Pointe.

The developer of Lighthouse Pointe, Charles Morgan of Brighton, long has 
said he can't move forward with the 47-acre project he'd like to build 
on the banks of the Genesee River - just north of the O'Rorke Bridge - 
without the tax breaks the brownfield program would bring. Much of the 
land is on a former landfill, so it requires cleanup.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation previously ruled the 
property did not qualify for cleanup money, precipitating the initial 
lawsuit several years ago.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mpnnow.com/news/x1194150992/Developer-to-take-case-to-state-s-highest-court

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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