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LMDC Final GEIS Comments,
One Liberty Plaza,20th Floor
New York,New York 10006

The Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement represents another
milestone in the wilfully misguided process of foisting an inadequate 
and unwanted plan on the city and nation.

That the official public poll authorized in the planning process was
easily won by "neither" of the two designated finalists,and the site
plan chosen was the one that finished last clearly demonstrates that
the priorities insisted upon by those in charge are not the priorities
of New Yorkers or Americans.

That the Final GEIS brazenly insists that this plan "achieved broad
public support" demonstrates its absolute failure to fairly address
the comments submitted on the Draft GEIS and the inexcusability of
proceeding further on the wrong paths chosen by the planners.

It is the "Restoration Alternative",new WTC Towers representing no
retreat whatsoever from the scale of the old,that truly represents
the aspirations of the largest part of the public and most effectively
honors those who were slaughtered.

To combine the office space into fewer,taller towers on the WTC Site
leads to greater efficiency in the use of resources and land,and greater
safety and efficiency in the resulting structures.And this is the only
way to send an essential symbolic statement that posterity will not
forgive us for failing to make,and future terrorists will be encouraged
by even our hesitation to make.

With respect to the concerns of others,that the new World Trade Center
be centered on towers every bit as tall and large as those destroyed
is more important than the extension of any streets into or through the
site,more important than "active enlivened street life",and certainly
more important than encouraging the disturbingly rapid growth of the
population of Downtown.All these issues must be given lower priority
than the creation of a new center that unambiguously reaffirms what
was destroyed rather than capitalizing on an act of mass murder to
continue the killers' work of changing the area's character.

To take into account any short-term fears of occupying the highest floors
of gigantic new towers is a particularly reprehensible empowerment of the
terrorists and should have no place in a development that must be very
publicly and unmistakably fearless.Make these buildings marvels of safety
and have faith in the future of freedom.

The Proposed Action must be abandoned and replaced by a fairly
realized Restoration Alternative!

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