An activist organization and a group of neighbors claim the city violated state law by failing to consider environmental impacts before approving the project, which includes a gun range. They want the site, a former community center, to become a park.
A notice posted this summer outside the site of a proposed police training facility on Buffalo’s East Side. Photo by Adam Smith-Perez.
An activist organization and four East Side residents have sued the city, the Common Council and the police department to stop the conversion of a former community center into a police training facility and shooting range.
The organization Liberation For One, Liberation for All, also known as LOLA, filed the lawsuit on Dec. 23, arguing that the rezoning violates several state and local laws. Much of the suit is based on the city’s alleged violation of state environmental law and its failure to properly complete the required environmental review process evaluating the potential harms of the site…