DEP Environmental Protection Invoices, 1999-2001

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action hasthepotential for turning cooperation a new issue after issuance of the FEIS or approval of the

into ambush"). document which amply satisfies the City's The FEIS prepared in this matter a comprehensive is

It examines all relevant areas of obligation to explore and evaluate ell potential adverse impacts. neighborhood, aesthetics, open space, environmental concern, including impact on the surrounding archeological resources, and other traffic, pollution, noise, effect on growth, infrastructure, historic and also satisfied its duty to attempt to areas of environmental, economic or social concern. The City The City carefully considered mitigate to the extent feasible any adverse impacts that were identified. disadvantages of each and the alternative sites and comprehensively articulated the advantages and not and could not seriously reasons for the selection of the Mosholu Golf Course site. Friends does to save the clubhouse, and suggest that the City was required to forego construction of the WTP in order constructed the plant without Friends does not suggest that the City could have excavated the site and show that the clubhouse was of Such removing the clubhouse. Nor does Friends offer any evidence to extraordinary measures to histo:ica!, aesthetic or archeological interest that the City should have taken

preserve it by dismantling and relocating or reconstructing it, as Friends now argues. clubhouse as an The City met its obligations under SEQRA by identifying destruction of the clubhouse, considering the adverse impact, disclosing relevant information available to it relating to the photographic record, from alternatives to alleviate adverse impact, and deciding that preservation of a challenge to the adequacy which a replica will be built, was the most practicable alternative. Friends' equally without of the City's examination of the matter during the environmental review process is literature and maps in regional merit. The steps taken included: examination of primary and secondary and archeologists; archives and libraries; interviews with long-term residents and local historians

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