Mr Black said the parliament's corporate body had not significantly altered requirements over the last four years and as such the main cause of the delay since September 2000 was the production of detailed variations in the design and the late delivery of information.
The Department of City Planning will be releasing more detaileddesign guidelines on April 8 in its race to get the rezoning certified before the Bloomberg administration disperses.
The interior is nearly the same as before, with a conventional, though nicely detailed, twin-scallop dash design meeting in a center stack loaded with buttons.