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Residents and council members press EDC on transit, flood resiliency and the concrete recycling facility
Summary
Council members and residents challenged EDC on whether existing transit, stormwater and roadway capacity can absorb the redevelopment and pressed EDC to address the concrete recycling facility that neighbors say has caused dust and health problems.
Council members and community witnesses used the Economic Development Committee's oversight hearing to press the EDC for details on transportation, coastal resiliency and local environmental health impacts related to the Brooklyn Marine Terminal plan.
Council member Shahana Hanif raised the concrete recycling facility adjacent to the Columbia Waterfront as an immediate public‑health concern and asked EDC whether it could commit to closing the facility "to a nonresidential area immediately." EDC replied that the most reliable way to remove as‑of‑right industrial uses is through a site plan and land‑use changes, and that, absent an approved plan, such uses may legally continue under current zoning. Hanif responded that the answer was not satisfactory…
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