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Belmont Park arena project to be delayed
“There will be no shovels in the ground in the first half of this year,” said Tammie Williams, community organizer with the Belmont Park Community Coalition, a group that has opposed the project.
Rachel Shatz, ESD’s vice president of planning and environmental review, said Thursday that an enormous amount of comments have already been received on the arena plan, which has made the task of putting together the final environmental impact statement that much more difficult.
“I think this process has had quite an additional amount of public outreach than our typical ones, so I think this one probably could set a record for the number of comments that we’ve received, but that is the process working,” Shatz said, according to a transcript of the meeting provided by ESD.
More than 2,000 letters in opposition of the project have been submitted to ESD officials so far, according to Williams.