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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
Vol. 59 No. 4 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, November 17,1977 Copyright 1977 by
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Village Proposes
Shopping Center
Zoning Controls
The Village of Farmingdale is planning to revise its
local laws to give the Village Board of Trustees more
control over the use of business properties. The
proposed changes will be aired at a public hearing
December 12 and include a new article that will allow a
planned shopping center to be constructed in the village
only by special use permit issued by the board of
trustees. U
LOOKS GOOD TO ME: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Gregory W. Carman [ left] gives an approving
look at the site of the new roller skating rink in Ellsworth Allen Town Park, Farmingdale, while Park
Manager Sal Gioeli [ center] and Town Horticulturist John Malloy describe the plans for the facility.
The rink will be ready for use by early spring 1978.
Tri- State Postpones Housing Edict
• S3* As the result of Oyster Bay
Town Supervisor Joseph Colby's
lirging for further substantive
changes in the Tri- State Housing
Plan, the Tri- State Regional
Planning Commission last week
voted to return the plan to its
housing committee for further
consideration. Colby also
reported that another significant
revision apparently had been
made in the proposed plan prior
to its submission for approval to
the full commission.
The amended section initially
recommended that Tri- State
review all local government
applications for federal aid in
terms of a municipality's com-
Sliance with the low- income
ousing quotas that the Tri- State
housing plan would establish, a
proposal that Colby had labeled
as a " blackmail tactic." As
amended, this section recom­mends
that the commission limit
unfavorable findings to those
Special Meeting
A special meeting of the
Farmingdale Board of Education
will be held on Monday,
November 21 •, to award bids on
construction contracts for E. D. A.
projects.
The meeting will be held at 8
p. m. in Guilford Lecture Hall,
Farmingdale Senior High School.
applications which have a direct,
adverse impact upon housing.
" At last it seems they are
recognizing that housing criteria
should not have adverse effects
on applications that are not
related to housing," Colby said.
Although the proposed plan did
not contain this new language,
Colby said the commission
assured him that this revision
would appear in the final draft
that will be up for commission
approval at its January meeting.
Previous objections raised by
the Town at earlier Tri- State
committee meetings have
resulted in two other major
changes in the housing plan, the
committee voted to omit the
provision for development
agencies, such as the Urban
Development Corporation, to
have the power to override local
zoning ordinances. It also with­drew
its advocacy of HUD's
requirement for removal of
residency preferences for ad­mission
to assisted housing.
" However, the housing com­mittee
has not responded
favorably to my request that an
affirmative statement be in­serted
to formally recognize the
right of local governments to
meet the heeds of their own
residents on a priority basis,"
Colby stated.
The commission voted to
return the plan to its housing
committee for further review and
noted that written critiques
would be accepted by the com­mittee
up to December 5. The
commission set a new date of
January 12,1978, for a vote on the
final version of the plan, which
the housing committee will
submit 10 days prior to that date.
Colby noted that while he has
not been totally successful up to
this point in bringing about all the
revisions he believes are needed,
" we have achieved three major
successes which go a long way to
protecting the home rule rights of
local government." Colby ex­plained
that as a result of his
objections, the Tri- State plan no
longer advocates creation of
Urban Development Cor­porations
that have power to
override local zoning; no longer
seeks to deny local government
the right to give its residents a
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Holiday Pick- up
There will be no garbage
collection on Thursday,
November 24, Garbage normally
picked up on this day will be
collected on Friday. Friday pick­ups
will be collected on Saturday,
November 26th.
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Youth Jobs
Gomniittef
Farmingdale Mayor John T.
Hallahan has appointed Edwin
W. Schloesser, Farmingdale
High School's" director of
vocational training, as chairman
of a newly formed Mayor's
Committee For Jobs For Youth.
Letters are being sent from the
Village of Farmingdale to all
local employers urging them to
contact Schloesser to list any
possible job openings that could
be filled by the committee.
Coordinating job placements
for the youth of the community as
chairman of the Mayor's Com­mittee
will only be an extension
of the work Schloesser has been
doing in the school district.
The committee will be made up
of the officers of the Farmingdale
Youth Council and members of
the Village Board of Trustees.
School Supt. Plans
Goals Statement
Dr. Fred J. Brockmann,
superintendent, Farmingdale
Public Schools, will hold a
meeting pn Monday, November
21 to present to the public a goals
statement that he has developed
for the Farmingdale Schools.
The meeting will be held at
Guilford Lecture Hall, Far­mingdale
Senior High School, at 8
p. m.
The meeting will be a detailed
presentation of Dr. Brockmann's
goals and objectives for the next
three years and will follow im­mediately
after the special
meeting of the Board of
Education.
The proposal will amend four
subsections of local law and
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Ke'jmhg'will begin at 8: 30 p. m.
The amendments stipulate:
• The permissible^ use of retail
stores in a business D district
does not include a planned
shopping center.
• A planned shopping center in
a business D district, if
authorized, is a special exception
use by the board of trustees.
• Provides that other uses of
the same general character are
to be granted by the board of
trustees instead of the board of
appeals.
The new article of local law to
be known as XXA provides that a
planned shopping center be
permitted in a business D district
only by special use permit issued
by the Board of Trustees oi the
Village of Farmingdale, setting
forth the uses permitted within
such planned shopping center,
specifying and regulating
building height, front, side, and
rear yard requirements, building
coverage, off- street parking
requirements, landscaping,
fencing and screening, site
review, plans and approval of
such special use permit by the
Board of Trustees.
A planned shopping center is
defined in the article as any in­stallation
designed to house
primarily retail commercial uses
and shall occupy a site of more
than one acre and provide for
more than 20,000 square feet of
floor area or for more than five
tenants or occupants.
Howitt Burgled
Weldon E. Howitt Junior High
School on VanCott Ave., Far­mingdale,
was entered by a
burglar last week, according to
8th precinct police.
Police said the school was
entered through a side window on
November 7, between 6 p. m. and
10 p. m. Musical instruments
were reported missing.