YANKEE STADIUM FORUM -- TONIGHT 7 PM

[Hellskitchen]

YANKEE STADIUM FORUM -- TONIGHT 7 PM
at CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS -- CITY HALL
ON THE YANKEE STADIUM ISSUE

We just got this information...

City Council and Speaker Peter Vallone will 
hold a Public Forum/Town Hall meeting tonight, 
Tuesday June 23 at 7:00 PM in the City Council 
Chambers at City Hall on the issue of Yankee Stadium.

The panel includes: 

Councilmembers Sabini (Q), Ognibene (Q) and Pinkett (BK)
Ronnie Lowenstein, Independent Budget Office
Mitchell Moss, Urban Planner, NYU
JoAnna Cagan, co-author "Field of Schemes"
moderator: Councilmember Adolpho Carrion (BX)

Funny how Vallone's office couldn't seem to find 
anyone from the West Side to be on the panel.

Although the issue is Yankee Stadium, and although
this is very important in its own right, we think
it is valid to raise and question the Eighth Avenue/
Theater Subdistrict zoning plan -- because both 
issues have to do with overdevelopment and the
life of a neighborhood.

If you've followed the issue, the Mayor is
trying to get the city to pay for constructing
a new Yankee Stadium in the southern part of 
Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. City Council Speaker 
Peter Vallone, who opposes the plan, who is 
running for Governor, and who is in the midst 
of a major budget battle with the Mayor is trying
to get the stadium issue on as a ballot referendum 
this fall. City Council has placed it on the ballot,
but the Mayor can block this with his Charter
Revision referendum. But (as we understand it),
even if the Mayor blocks City Council's attempt,
the stadium referendum can still get on the ballot by
petitioning -- which is why you might have seen
people going around with orange-colored petitions 
for people to sign.

Hope to see you there!