DEIS: Project description; Conclusion, project goals and objectives

CONCLUSION: PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Draft EIS states:

PROVIDE A MODERN STADIUM THAT CAN ADEQUATELY SUPPORT BASEBALL AND STADIUM OPERATIONS, PLAYERS, AND THE MEDIA
•Provide adequate parking.
•Create efficient and attractive pedestrian circulation space.

MINIMIZE ADVERSE IMPACTS AND IMPROVE CONDITIONS IN THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD
• Provide adequate off-street public parking and areas for pedestrian circulation.
• Replace displaced recreational facilities with equal or better facilities within the area.
• Reduce any adverse impacts of the proposed project to the extent practicable.

Response:

The above (selected) goals and objectives of the project show how the project is insensitive to the needs of the community, and the needs of the region.

As is explained in subsequent sections of this analysis, the provision of “adequate parking” is simply the construction of large, obtrusive parking structures within the community that will serve to attract additional automobile trips to Yankees games. “Efficient and attractive pedestrian circulation space” is designed to route fans to the stadium more quickly from parking structures, and away from local businesses.

The adverse neighborhood impacts of this project are immense. Again, more parking is seen as the save-all solution for a problem of traffic congestion as opposed to more transit service. A wide-spread destruction of local parkland will be replaced by “parks” atop parking structures. Neighborhood, visual, business and air quality impacts (among others) will also be substantial.

This analysis is intended to shed light on all of these proposed impacts, which when taken as a whole, add up to a great injustice for the local community.