Chris Falcone’s editorial crew at Hometown Media Group didn’t get their Saturday morning off this week. And good for them – they broke important regional news.
By way of background, yesterday word reached us 'gadfly's' that the Rye City Council convened in an unannounced meeting early Thursday morning at City Hall. (UPDATE - a council-member who was in the room reached out and says that only two council members were in attendance and that the meeting subject was not the DEC petition. Our source of this info will now be keelhauled.)
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Meanwhile, back on point, yesterday the Hometown Media Group posted the following Story Alert Flash via Twitter:
#BREAKING: Rye City appeals to @NYSDEC to wrestle control of SPI @rye_playland environmental review process from @westchestergov
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And soon thereafter out came the story – and quite a doozy - indicating that a game of political Hard Ball between the council - and the Astorino Administration - is now fully underway.
BREAKING: Rye petitions DEC over SPI plan
By CHRIS EBERHART - Staff Writer
“The City of Rye is not backing down from its demand to be the lead agency in the environmental review of Sustainable Playland, Inc.’s renovation plan for the iconic amusement park.
The Review has learned that, on May 16, Michael Garrard of the law firm Arnold and Porter, LLP, which is representing the city in the ongoing Playland dispute, filed a formal request to be named lead agency with the commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the DEC.
The environmental review status the city is challenging falls under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, SEQR, which would give the city, not Westchester County, final say over the project.”
Read the rest of the story here -
http://www.ryecityreview.com/breaking-rye-petitions-dec-over-spi-plan/
