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| Community Benefits Agreements: Time for Reform? Monday, May 17, 2010 6 PM - 8 PM Event has expired. Registration for this event is no longer available. Community Benefit Agreements between developers, elected officials and community groups have grown in prominence with agreements on profile projects like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, Columbia University and Harlem Park in Manhattan, Yankee Stadium and Gateway Center in the Bronx, and the Mets’ Stadium in Queens. As private agreements, however, these deals pose a number of procedural, ethical, and enforcement issues. Moderator: KENNETH K. FISHER, Cozen O'Connor; Chair, Committee on Land Use Planning and Zoning Speakers: VICKI BEEN, Boxer Family Professor of Law and Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University School of Law JULIAN GROSS, Director of the Community Benefits Law Center, a project of the Partnership for Working Families WAYNE G. HAWLEY, Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, NYC Conflicts of Interest Board AL RODRIGUEZ, General Counsel, Bronx Borough President ETHEL SHEFFER, Past President, American Planning Association, NY Metro Chapter Sponsored by: Committee on Land Use, Planning & Zoning, Kenneth Fisher, Chair Members of the Association and their guests are welcome. |