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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. AUGUST 8.1985
51st YEAR. No: 16
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Developer Asks For Zoning Change
County Again Hears
Residents'Input
So. Ocean Ave. Parcel
Sub/ecf Of Public Hearing
FREEPORT - South of Front Slftet, in Freeport's waterfront area.
South Ocean Avenue has always been a mixture of reside'ntial and"
business, even manufacturing. For years, residents of the west side of
that street would attend Village Board meetings complaining of the
noise from factories on the east side.
Next Monday evening, August 12, the Board w-ill hear a request to
change 'the zoning of one large
Residents Ask
, For Change In
Divesture Policy
FREEPORT - The village's
siarid tin apartheid is still a matter,
residents are bringing before the
Board of Trustees even though
the board has previously,voted to '
. conform to the Sullivan I^ciples
rather than complete divesture.
At this past Monday. August
' Sth Board nieeling, residents
were joined by Rev. Reginald
Tuggle who said his church in
Roosevelt has many Freeport
parishioners, and State Assem­blywoman
Barbara Patton. a
resident of Freeport.
Theyfollowed Louise Simpson,
L.I. Area Director for the.
N.A.A.C.P. and a long-time Free-port
resident, who told the Village
Board that many things have
recently happened in South Africa
and asked it to reconsider di­vesture^
"Have any of you recon­sidered?"
she questioned.
Deputy Mayor C. James Clark.
chairing the meeting in the
. absence of Mayor Dorothy Storm,
allowed the trustees to respond
individually.
Trustee Victor Cohen said he
had looked into the issue, but had
not come to any conclusion. Vin­cent
DiCostanzo echoed Cohen's
comments, adding that it is "not
a dead issue."
Oark. noted that he was
appalled at what he had seen on
television and what he read in the
newspapers and "hopes and
prays that in time things will go
better...My sympathy is there."
he told Mrs. Simpson, but he
didn't know if anyone has the
answer. "If the United States
pulls out entirely," Clark be­lieves,
"I think communism will
go in there."
Tnistee Ralph Smith said he
though! Ihe country has to take a
stronger position than It does de­nouncing
apartheid, but, he also
said, if we pull away a lot of
people vrill be without jobs.
Simpson noted that 32 go\-em-mental
bodies in the. United
Stales hive already divested. "I
»m not asking you to be the
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Baldwin Creek Project
Explained To Conununity
;. . • - by Joan Delanef
BALDWIN - Approximately fifty residents attended the public in­formation
meeting concerning the Baldwin Creek drain project which
WS5 held by the Nassau Coanly.DeptiimeDl of-Public-Works at'nhe
Baldwin library on July 31. This project, wliich is not to be confused
with the Milbum Creek project in east Baldwin, encompasses the Bald­win
Creek as it runs from the Bay,
parcel running south of Suffolk
Street on the easterly side of the
block.
The owner of the property,
Toni Masotto. recently purchased
and Cooperative."
But the Planning Board, on.
June 25, recommended that the
•Village Board deny the applica­tion,
calling if'spot zoning."
that piece and another behind it - and suggesting instead that the
along Parsonage Creek to Silver
Lake and north past Stanton
Avenue along land west of Grand
Avenue,
Present for the informational
meeting. which was informally
conducted between 5 pm and 9
pm were County engineers
Herbert Rusinoff aiid Charles
Koch of- the Drainage Section
and Ovil Engineer Bruce Grant.
In addition, Andre Haddad of
the designing firm of Lochwood.
Kessler and Bartlett. which has
drawn up the proposal, was avail­able
for questioning.' Detailed
charts and blueprints were dis­played.,
.. .
Rusinoff indicated that this
informational meeting was the
second one which had taken
place on this particular phase of
the project..A previous meeting
had been held at the Baldwin
Avenue Fire House last summer,
but at.a January Board of Super-,
visors meeting " at . which the.
Public Works Department was_
seeking Board approval for
various land acquisitions for
worldng easements, some resi­dents
indicated that they were
not familiar with the' project.
RusinoS promised another meet­ing
to explain the project again in
detail.
The Baldwin Creek project is a
six' section prcject. The first
section involving Silver Lake
has been completed. This next
phase, for which the meeting
' was specifically arranged,
will take the project north to
Brooklyn Avenue. At the previous
informational meeting, it was
noted that this phase presents
the most structural difficulties
since the area is rather densely
developed commercially and also
includes tunnelling under Sun­rise
Highway.
The purpose of the project is
to provide additional conduits
parallel,- to the existing line.
Improved drainage along the
Creek is needed since land
development over the past years
has eliminated natural ponds
and run-off areas which in the
past prevented flooding. Studies
have shown that there is "con­siderable
deficiency throughout
the existing system", and the
drain project is being proposed '
so that the additional conduits
will'result in a combined system
which "will be able to provide
.for storms with recurrent inter­vals
of between two and five
ycarsJ'
To accomplish this second
phase of the project, there wil
be the need for numerous
temporary easements since pri­vate
.property abuts most of
the drainage area. There will also
be the need for the demolition of
one parcel.of land at Merrid
Road presently housing an up­holstery
business and one garage.
neacSdiool Street.
As a' result of suggestions.
- Jbom residents at previous meet­ings.
. certain modifications did
, occur. From this most recent
' meeting, it appears that some
residents.in the Lakeside Dti\°e
area are still opposed to * covered
culvert .near them as well as to
the- destruction of certain trees.
Engineers have indicated that
they would try to accommodate
residents but it would .probably,
be necessary to see if there is a
consensus relative to whether
the culvert would be coveted or
not in that portion of the pro­ject
since there are advantages
and disadvantages to both.
One of the adjustments in the
project involved moving the lines
farther west in the vicinity of
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fronting on Woodcleft Avenue, as
well as property on the water side
of Wooddeft for his own business
use.
Masotto, who among his other
interests, b a-boat dealer and-spomor
of the Scorpion Power
Boat Race to be held in Freeport
in September, has applied for a
change of zoning on the South
Ocean Street part of the property
in order to sell it to "a developer.
Broughm Enterprises. Broughm
proposes to build condominiums
on the site.
But the piece is zoned "Manu­facturing,"
which allows for the
construction of almost every­thing,
from a factory' to a gas
station, except residential
. houses.
Masotto and Broughm Enter­prises,
represented by local
attorney V. Roy Cacciatore, first
appeared before • the Villag&'s
Planning Board in June, with
their application to change the
zoning of the plot to "Marine-
Apa'rtment-Boatel. Condominium
property be rezoned "Residential
A" for one-family home construc­tion.
The original prqjiosal looked at
by the Planning Board has been
:^h2iiged-. slightly, - The plans
Cacciatore will be showing the
"Village Board has 22 one-bed­room
units, two less than the
original 24 units, half one-bed­room,
half two-bedrooih. The
. height is also lower under the re-
\-ised plan: two-story, rather than
two-and-a-half story. The height
of the buildings would be less
than 25 feel, says Cacciatore,
"less than a colonial house,"
and far less than the four story
building - allowed under the.
"Marine-Apartment-Boatel. Con­dominium
and Qxjperative"
Zone.
Cacciatore explains there w-ill
.even be more green space,,
though he was not certain how
much more. The original plan
called for construction on only
26.4% of the property.
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NEW FACILITY IN FREEPORT, Village Mayor Dorothy Storm (2nd I.)
pays her bill at Cablevision's new Customer Service Office at 160 East
Sunrise Highway, directly across from the Freeport Recreation Center.
Planned to service 125,000 Cablevislon subscribers on the south shore
from Massapequa to Queens, the facility Is visited each day by some
1(X} customers, who pay bills, exchange converters, schedule service
calls or upgrade their cable service. The phone number is 37B-9200.
Cablevision's total 55,(XX) square feet at the Sunrise Business C^pus
house Its Sales and Engineering Departments, the Customer Service
Office and south shore garage. Joining the Mayor are Freeport Opera­tions
Manager Charles KarwowskI (2nd r.) and Cablevislon Public
Affairs Director Kate Adams (r.).