Despite months of community opposition and numerous protests, the City Council last week gave the Special Flushing Waterfront District the green light, approving a plan that would rezone 29-acres of Downtown Flushing for luxury condominiums, hotels, offices, stores and a new road network.
But its adversaries are not giving up the fight yet.
âCity Council has allowed a massive takeover of 1,700+ luxury apartments and a privatized waterfront with vastly inadequate and unenforceable âconcessions,ââ MinKwon Center for Community Action, one of the leading protesters, said in a statement following the 39-5 vote.
The activist organization is continuing to pursue a June lawsuit challenging the proposalâs omission of an environmental impact statement, which they say should render it and its approval illegitimate. Rather than completing an EIS, the developers conducted a less thorough environmental assessment.