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CB 9 urges City Council to vote no on Kew Gardens jail
BY ANGELICA ACEVEDO
In a detailed explanation
signed by CB 9 Chairperson
Kenichi Wilson, the advisory
body stated that the application
“violates” New York City
Charter’s “Chapter 9, sections
210 and 222, Chapter 8, sections
197 and 204.”
The statement comes
weeks aft er the City Planning
Commision decided to approve
the ULURP application to build
four new jails across the city as
part of a larger plan to reduce
the number of jails as well as
the capacity of those jails citywide,
including the nine located
in Rikers Island.
One of those new jails will
be built on 126-02 82nd Ave.
in Kew Gardens, where the
shuttered Queens Detention
Complex is located.
“Th e NY City Council should
vote NO on the blatantly fl awed
and incomplete borough-based
jails ULURP, because this
ULURP project violates the
New York City Charter which
the Council is sworn to uphold,”
according to the statement.
Th e advisory body maintained
that they didn’t receive “advance
notice of all preliminary and
fi nal plans” of the project.
“Th e Community Board and
the Kew Gardens community
only learned of this proposal
aft er an Aug. 15, 2018 press
conference given by the Mayor
Bill de Blasio,” the statement
indicated. “Yet nearly 8 months
before, in January 2018, the city
had already entered into a $7.4
million contract with Perkins
Eastman, a contract which eventually
grew to $13 million.”
CB 9 has maintained their
stance against the new facility
since the new plan was
announced earlier in the year.
In July, CB 9 Department
of Correction’s Design Unit
Director Howard Fielder wrote
a letter calling de Blasio’s draft
environmental impact study on
the new facilities “unsubstantiated.”
Th e study projected that one
of the benefi ts of the new facility
will be “economic gain for local
business owners.”
Now, in CB 9’s latest statement,
they point out that the
ULURP application — which
has garnered much pushback
from many other members of
the Queens community since its
announcement — contains “No
Plan, No Design, No Budget and
No Program Details.”
“Th e so called facts presented
by the Mayor’s offi ce are a
moving target,” the Community
Board 9 statement continued.
“Th e eventual project cost is in
the billions of public dollars. We
believe that no comparable private
applicant, even one using
only private funds, would have
had such a vague application
certifi ed to enter the ULURP
process.”
Th ey added that, “To vote for
a ‘concept,’ a vague outline that
will cost billions of public dollars
is a violation of the New York
City Charter.”
If the NY City Council
approves of the ULURP, the proposal
will be on track to impose
the changes by 2026. It will cost
taxpayers approximately $11 billion
over the course of that period
.Th
e City Council had a public
hearing on the matter on Sept. 5;
it has 50 days to vote on the plan.
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