[CPEO-BIF] Waterpointe development in Whitestone, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC is breaking its own rule: LoScalzo

by Ryan Brady
Queens Chronicle (NY)
November 22, 2017 

In September, the Department of Environmental Conservation changed the brownfield cleanup program track for the Waterpointe development planned in Whitestone. A Track 2 residential cleanup was first planned for the site, where a single-family housing development is planned.

But after the agency discovered that material at the site used as fill did not meet the residential use soil cleanup objectives, it changed the project to Track 4 restricted residential use, a less stringent one. And though the DEC initially had said that single-family homes could no longer be built there, it reversed its stance after Community Board 7 protested.

The agency decided to stick with Track 4 restricted residential use when it reverted back to the single-family housing plan. And while the DEC told the Chronicle that the option is permitted when the homes are controlled by a common entity, as the Waterpointe ones are planned to be, Whitestone resident Robert LoScalzo believes that the agency cannot allow them to be built with that track.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/dec-is-breaking-its-own-rule-loscalzo/article_5829b6ff-6f75-5b5f-8bfa-4f3bfd4d2e7a.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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