1972-08-03

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VOL. 9 NO. 50 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published by THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, August 3 , 1 9 7 2
Summer Fun and Woes
THEY'RE GAME: James Little ( left) and Jim Booth were
two of the contestants at the Hit Your Price game during
Woodward Parkway's annual Penny Carnival.
PAT THE COWS: Children get a big kick out of patting
animals. They get a chance to do exactly that when visiting the
150 acre model farm and barnyard on the campus of Far­mingdale
State University. ( See story on page 12).
WRAP- UP: A smashing job was done by the driver of the van
seen above wrapped uround u utility pole on Caimans Road.
Accident took place last week and the driver ( foreground) was
given first aid by the rescue company of the South Farmingdale
Fire Department. No further details of the accident were
available Photo: Robert J. Greco
Farmingdalers Almost Had No
Time to Reject Master Plan
At the public hearing called by the Town of Oyster Bay Planning Board in
Massapequa HS Wednesday evening to discuss proposals for rezoning and dif­ferent
land use along Hempstead Turnpike and on Motor Avenue, Farmingdale
residents received a hearing only after strenuous and vocal insistence. Three
hours, from 8 p. m. to 11 p. m. were allotted to discuss Tobay Master Plan
proposals dealing with Plainview, Bethpage, Farmingdale, East Massapequa
and Farmingdale, with Farmingdale finally making it at around 11: 30 p. m.
By that time, Planning Ad­visory
Board chairman Dr. Larry
Ravitch had left. Members of the
consulting firm Raymond, Parish
& Pine, Inc. stayed behind,
though, until the school custodian
finally broke up the discussions
at 12.30 a. m.
The upshot of this almost non-hearing
for Farmingdale
residents was a rejection of all
proposals ( as explained in detail
below along with the reasoning
that went into them) by those in
attendance. Neither the
recommended closing of Kent
Street nor the garden apartments
and/ or town houses along
Hempstead Turnpike found
fctvor.
The Planning Advisory Board
will accept further comments
and recommendations from
interested residents, which
should be mailed to the Planning
Advisory Board, c / o Oyster
Bay Town Hall. Sometime in
September everything will be
tied up in a final master plan, on
which the Town Board then will
start action in October. At this
time, public hearings will be held
again regarding zoning and land
use changes.
The proposal, as outlined in last
week's OBSERVER, is for zoning
changes in the areas of Hemp­stead
Turnpike and Motor
Avenue which would result,
among other things, in multiple
dwellings such as apartment or
town houses.
In the Hempstead Turnpike
area the issues, as defined by the
Tobay Planning Advisory Board,
are the declining physical con­dition
and or marginal use of
buildings on the north side of
Hempstead Turnpike, east of
Dolphin Drive; the commercial
zoning of residentially developed
parcels on Greenway Drive; and
the need for some multiple dwell­ings
to provide for housing needs
of area residents.
To deal with these issues, the
planning goals are defined thus:
Amend zoning to place well-maintained
continuous resi­dential
frontages in residential
districts; and to provide for a
limited number of multiple
dwellings to help meet the needs
of town residents.
How would this be ac­complished?
As the Planning
Advisory Board outlines it in the
summary of the preliminary
master plan, by:
1 Revising zoning along the
end of Greenway Drive so that
residential properties are zoned
in a residential district; and by
2. permitting garden apart
ments and or town houses, at a
density of ten units per acre, on
the north side of Hempstead
Turnpike and east of Dolphin
Drive. Screening would be
provided along the residential
subdivision to the west and along
the railroad and Hempstead
Turnpike. This site could ac­commodate
about 75 units.
The issues in the Motor Avenue
area are somewhat more com­plex.
What is at stake here, in the
opinion of the planners, is the
future use of the old Liberty
Motors facility. If it were left
industrial, which is the present
zoning of the entire block, steps
need to be taken to improve its
visual aspect, especially where it
is adjacent to, or across the street
from, residential areas.
Leaving the zoning of the
Liberty Motors facility industrial
crea tes some more issues for the
planners, such as the encroach­ment
of commercial uses along
the south side of Motor Avenue
into residential areas; the
parking by industrial employees
on streets and in vacant lots in
residential areas; and the future
use of the two vacant parcels at
the western end of Motor Avenue
at its intersection with Merritt
Road.
In wrestling with these issues,
the planners have set themselves
three goals, namely to establish
the future use of the Liberty
Motors property, to prevent
extension of commercial uses
and employee parking into resi­dential
areas south of Motor
Avenue, and to provide for a
limited amount of townhouse
and or garden apartment
development to help meet
housing needs of present resi­dents.
Here the following proposals
are made to reach these goals:
1. Continue industrial use of the
Liberty Motors facility, but
repair or remove any buildings
not meeting health or safety
standards.
2. Increase the amount of off-street
parking available to indus­trial
employees.
3. Provide screening around
the western, eastern, and sou­thern
property lines to help
protect the adjoining properties.
4. Close Kent Street between
Motor and Lambert Avenues and
landscape the present right of
way.
5. Close Vanderwater and
Powell Streets along Lambert
Avenue, so that access to the
commercial uses would be from
( Continued on Page 12)
Nine High School Grads to
Receive BOCES Nurses Caps
Linda Cancellaro, Diana Lee,
Martha O'Neill, Noella Pasmore,
Camille Petrillo, Marie C.
Quirke, Patricia Salerno, Diane
Wiebke, and Cindee Yabroudy,
nine Farmingdale High School
graduates, will receive practical
nurses' caps and graduation
certificates from the Nassau
Board of Cooperative
Educational Services ( BOCES)
on August 4.
LILCO's Light Is
Seen Again at Last
Only last week, the OB­SERVER
reported that two
street lights, one at the corner
of Quaker Hoad and Puritan
and the one next to it, had been
out since May of this year and
that LILCO had promised to
fix the lights " as soon as
possible This week, it can be
reported that the Long Island
Lighting Co. lias repaired the
non- functioning street lights in
the meantime.
The OBSERVE R is
therefore obliged to rephrase
last week's assumption that
LILCO language " as soon as
possible" is longer than from
May to July to that it is as long
as from Mav to July.
The graduates are among 87
youngsters from 29 Nassau high
schools who will be capped in
ceremonies at Newbridge Road
Park, South Bellmore.
Ail 87 students have completed
two years of practical nursing
study at a BOCES occupational
education center in Freeport,
Mineola, North Bellmore, or
Syosset. During that time, they
spent half of each school day at
BOCES and the other half at their
home high schools pursuing their
academic work.
In two years, the students
completed 1200 hours of class and
field work, the State Education
Department * s eligibility require­ment
for the New York State
Board examinations. Those who
pass the exams will become
licensed practical nurses.
The capping ceremonies will
take place at the skating rink at
Newbridge Koad Park beginning
ai 8 p. m. The public is invited.
Principal speaker at the
ceremonies will be Mrs. Pearl
Rasin, president of the Licensed
Practical Nurses of New York.
Frank J. Wolff, BOCES assistant
superintendent for occupational
education, will address the
graduates. Master of ceremonies
will be Aruthur Side. BOCES
supervisor of occupational
education.