Atlantic Yards Community Development Corp. set to meet in person (+ on video) July 26. Public comment on agenda due July 25. No agenda yet.

As I wrote July 7, the expected meeting July 26 of the (purportedly) advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC) could mean discussion of some big-picture issues regarding the future of Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park.

The AY CDC is supposed to advise the parent Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/shepherds the project.

Those issues include the platform needed to support six towers over the MTA's Vanderbilt Yard; the 876 (or 877) units of affordable housing due by May 2025, and ESD's seeming reluctance to enforce fines; the expected argument by Greenland USA, which controls nearly all the rest of the project, for an extension of that deadline; and changes at both Greenland and ESD, leaving new people as the face of the project.

There may even be a discussion of the workaround Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed to enable affordable housing unlocked by the Gowanus rezoning, since that could serve as a template for future Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park financing revisions.

Meeting listed but no agenda

Well, no notice has been circulated--to me, at least, though a press release is dated July 19--and nothing yet appears on the AY CDC page, but the meeting is listed on ESD's board meetings page:

Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation Directors Meeting
Empire State Development, 633 Third Avenue – 37th Floor Conference Room, New York, NY 10017
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 3 pm

The meeting is open to the public.

Please Note: Due to building procedures, members of the public attending in-person should please RSVP by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.

Members of the press should please call (800) 260-7313; Members of the public should please call (212) 803-3795.

The public may listen to the meeting via webcast by clicking the link below.

Short window for public comment

Members of the public may submit comments on the Agenda items in writing to AYCDCBdMtg@esd.ny.gov by noon on Tuesday, July 25. 

Given that it's impossible to comment on a nonexistent agenda--and requires some clairvoyance to comment on an agenda item that hasn't been discussed--let's see if it appears by noon on Monday, allowing for 24 hours.