White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Teck: CCOS will not Mount Article 78 Action to Stop Proton Accelerator.

WPCNR Daily Mirror. By John F. Bailey. August 6, 2002:The President of Concerned Citizens for Open Space, reacting to the Common Council vote approving the New York Presbyterian Hospital project early Tuesday morning, has told WPCNR the citizens' open space and parks advocacy group was not contemplating bringing an Article 78 action to overturn the council approval.

CCOS LEADER CONCILIATORY IN AFTERMATH: Alan Teck, President of Concerned Citizens for Open Space, is shown speaking out at last night's Common Council meeting. Teck, in a thoughtful and rational discourse citing eloquently pleaded for the Council to have a "death bed converson" and vote the hospital plan down. He finished his remarks saying, "It takes a Common Council to make a great city. It takes an UnCommon Council to make a City great." Teck was just one of 38 speakers to address the Council in a 5-hour marathon finale to the New York Presbyterian Hospital biotech/proton accelerator saga.
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Alan Teck, President of Concerned Citizens for Open Space which has long crusaded for a “Central Park for White Plains” on the hospital property told WPCNR this morning that the citizen’s group was not considering an Article 78 action to attempt to overturn the Council decision in the courts. A gracious man, speaking at a time that must have been very difficult for him, said he and the organization were “looking forward to the city negotiating with the hospital.”

Asked if he had any indication that New York Presbyterian Hospital, now that it had received its approval, was inclined to discuss providing some of its property for a park, Teck said, “not at all.”

Teck said he felt it was “interesting,” that Mayor Joseph Delfino ended his remarks with a reference to the fact that now perhaps White Plains could have a Central Park.

Asked for his comments on the historic Council vote ending twenty-seven years of Common Council wrangling with the hospital, Teck said, “Over this long process, significant changes occurred from the original plan to the one that was ultimately approved, and those changes, in every case, benefited the city.”


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