[CPEO-BIF] Court rules Lighthouse Pointe (NY) developers should be in brownfield program

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Court rules that developers should be in brownfield program

Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY)
February 18, 2010


New York's highest court has ordered state environmental officials to 
allow a local development group into the brownfield cleanup program, a 
decision that paves the wave for a huge $250 million residential and 
commercial development along the Genesee River in Irondequoit.

"This is a great victory for our community. Now, the Lighthouse Pointe 
developers can remediate a contaminated landfill through the Brownfield 
Cleanup Program, and turn it into a gem for our community, including a 
waterfront promenade for the public, restaurants and housing," said the 
developer's Rochester lawyer, Alan Knauf.

In a unanimous decision released this morning, the state Court of 
Appeals ruled that the Department of Environmental Conservation had 
wrongly refused to admit Lighthouse Pointe Associates to the brownfield 
cleanup program.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20100218/NEWS01/100218010/1002/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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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