All the youngsters of Freeport
are invited to participate in the
Swimming Races to be conducted
from 9 am to 11 am on Labor Day,
September 5. There will be no
charge for admission to the Cen-ter's
pool area but pre-registra-tion
is mandatory. For further
information call 223-4114.
The outdoor swimming season
at the Recreation Center will end
at the close of the day on Labor
Day, Monday, September 5. All
Summer Discount Plans will also
expire with the Fall Discount
Plans becoming immediately
effective. The Fall Plan, which is
effective until -January 15, cost
$55 for a family or $25 for an indi-vidual.
Those who purchased
Summer Plans and-now buy Fall
Plans, will be eligible to buy Win-ter
Plans at the reduced rate of
$30 per family and $12.50 per
person. Fall Plans will go on sale
in the latter part of this month.
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; Monday, August 29 is regis-tration
day at the Recreation Cen-ter
for the September session of
the Kiddie Club for children ages
three to four and a half. The half-day,
two days a week program in-cludes
movement and dance,
games, music, arts and crafts,,
creative drama, puppertry, 'story-telling,
films and ice skating in
season. Cost is $20 per month at
time of registration. A second
child in the family may be reg-istered
at a 50% discount. The
program is run on a month to
month basis with children regi-stered
from the previous, month
having priority.
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Mark your calendar now. Tues-day,
September 27, 7 to 8:30 pm,
will be the adult registration per-iod
for fall programming at the
Recreation Center. Children may
be registered on Saturday, Octo-ber
1, 10 am to noon. These per-iods
are for Freeport residents
only. Programming includes arts,
arts and crafts, basketball, baton
twirling, bowling, creative play,
ballet, modern, tap and social
dance, drama, fencing, football,
golf, guitar, gymnastics, slim-nasties
and yoga. Under a special
plan for children and teens, no
family will be required to pay
more than $25 per season regard-less
of the number of the eligible
programs their child or children
• may enroll in. Cost for the majori-ty
of programs is $5 per season.
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Mayor William White has an-nounced
that a maximum of
$10,000 has been set as the price
of the rehabilitated houses turned
over to Homesteading families
under the Community Develop-/
ment grant funded program. :..
Under the Village's plan, which ;
is unlike those of other communi-ties,
once boarded-up houses are
completely rehabilitated and
brought up to building code
standards before Homesteaders
take occupancy. The cost of the
repairs then becomes the price of
the structure which is paid by
the Homesteader over a ten year
period in the form of a home im-provement
loan. In other muni-cipalities
the property is turned
over to the Homesteader in an
"as is" condition to be rehabi-litated
under a set time period
with the Homesteader bearing all
costs.
Mayor White explained that
while the majority of the struc-tures
thus far rehabilitated have
fallen below $10,000 in costs,
some will be higher by thousands
of dollars. "A cost above $10,000
would be outside the concept of
the program," the Mayor stated.
"Homesteading in the Village
has a double purpose. It is to re-vitalize
a great portion of the
northeastern section of Freeport
by eliminating boarded-up struc-tures,
but it is also to-.provide
moderate-income younjg families
with the opportunity to purchase
Jthe home they could; not' other-wise
afford. It is 'for- the - latter
objective that-we have- adopted
the bargain price of $10,000."
the $10,000 maximum will not
apply should a house require
demolition and a new structure
built.
Applications are still being ac-cepted
for Homesteading. All
Homesteading houses are in
Housing Improvement houses are
in Housing Improvement Area #1
(railroad to northerly Village line,
Wallace Street to Babylon Turn-pike)
with the majority in the
Freeport School District. Success-ful
Homesteading applicants
must show the ability to pay back
a home improvement loan over
ten years and meet the taxes by
having sufficient income, a steady
employment history and a rea-sonable
debt picture. Homestead-ers
must certify they will occupy
the house for a minimum of five
years.
Those interested should con-tact
the Freeport Community
Development Agency, 50 Liberty
Avenue, 378-4432.
Homesteaders IMlove
George Lovelock (left) and his wife Christine get some help from bro-ther-
in-law Eugene Schram as they move into their new house on Har-rison
Avenue. Residents of an apartment in the Village since 1972, the
Lovelocks were the seventh family to move into a Homesteading house
which they will own after occupying it for a minimum of five years. The
house had been boarded up for the past six years until the Village,
through the Community Development Agency, undertook complete
rehabilitation. By next month a total of 11 houses will be Homesteaded
with others in various stages of preparation.
LIBRARY
-^PORT,
AUGUST 1977
A PUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT
46 NORTH OCEAN AVENUE TELEPHONE FReeport 8-4000 WILLIAM H. WHITE. MAYOR.
Public Meetings On The 1st and 3rd Mondays Of The Month, At 8:00 P.M.
Freeport Housing Authority
Executive Director John Williams
has announced that Mrs. Marjor-ie
Williams was recently reelect-ed
to her seat as Tenant Commis-sioner
for a two-year period. She
regained her seat on the Housing
Authority Board by 166 votes.
Mrs. Williams (who is not re-lated
to the Authority's Executive
Director) is a resident of the Mox-ey
A. Rigby Apartments and was
first appointed to the Board by
Mayor William White in January,
1975. Her appointment was
voided, without prejudice, by
the appointing Authority, be-cause
of an opinion of the State's
Attorney General that her ap-pointment,
at the time made, may
not have been lawful.
A report received by Mayor
William White indicates that
there were 316 more Discount
Plans sold to the Freeport Recre-ation
Center through June of this
year than through July of last
year. There were 1,619 sold as of
June 30 as compared with 1,303
at the end of July, 1976. (The
comparison is made June to July
since Plans and Activity Cards
were available for sale earlier this
year, in mid-May.)
The sale of Activity Cards,
indicative of the numbers using
the Center and/or participating
in Recreation Department pro-
It is the responsibility of all
waterfront homeowners, business
establishments, boaters, fisher-men
and visitors to protect the
quality of our waterways. Village
ordinances allow for heavy penal-
, ties for any person or firm found
guilty of littering or polluting. It
is recommended that businesses
and residents provide adequate
garbage receptacles for the use of
their customers and guests.
gramming, stood at 7,403 as on
July 11 this year as compared
with 7,305 at the end of July,
1976! An additional 169 Discount
Plans were also sold between July
1 and July 11 of this year.
Revenue breakdowns also show
an increase of $38,868 with
monies taken in during fiscal year
1976-77 as of June 30 standing at
$124,791 compared with this
year's position at the same date of
$163,657.
Mayor White said that it has
also been reported to him that
measures taken to reduce costs
are meeting with success. "There
The Freeport Police Depart-ment
is joining with the Nassau
County force in an effort to attract
recruits with a particular empha-sis
on members.of minorities so
that the membership of the forces
will more truly reflect the popula-tion
makeup of Nassau County.
An open competitive examina-tion
will be held by the County on
October. 29. Preliminary applica-tions,
which must be filed by Sep-tember
2, are available at: the
Freeport .Police Department, 40
North Ocean Avenue. Further
information may be obtained by
calling Detective Julius Pearse
at 378-0700.
The beginning annual salary of
a Police Officer varies from
$12,534 to $16,874.
has been a substantial reduction
in overtime costs, due to changes
in personnel scheduling," the
Mayor noted, "and we are saving
$9,000 in one activity alone this
summer, the swimming pools, by
more effective utilization of per-sonnel.
"We will continue to work
towards a better financial picture
at the Recreation Center, without
curtailment of the excellent pro-grams
and facilities we are offer-ing,
which more and more fam-ilies
are taking advantage of as
the figures show.*'
Trustees: Thomas J. Lovelidge, Dorothy Storm, Wayne Jordan, Alfred Sirlin
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo - Treasurer: James J. Lyons - Counsel: Oakley Gentry Jr.
The Freeport Board of Trustees
has selected Monday, August 29
8 pm, as the time during which
the Board will consider a rezoning
of North Main Street as proposed
by the consulting firm of Ray-mond,
Parish, Pine and Weiner
after a study financed through
the Village's federal Community
Development grant. The majority
of the Village's northern corri-dor,
stretching from the railroad
to the Roosevelt line, has been
zoned Planned Unit Develop-ment
(PUD) since _19?2.
The session was originally
scheduled for August 8 but due
to the preparation- of required
materials, the rescheduling to the
later date became necessary.
* The public hearing, which wih
be held at Village Hall, was pre-cipated
by communications from
Director of Planning and Com-munity
Development Director
James Dunne in which he stated
that while he had received num-erous
inquiries by potential de-velopers
and businesses "who
are indicating strong interest in
this area," the present zoning is
not in line with the interest ex-pressed
by the investors.
Under the consultants' pro-posal
the lower half of North
Main Street, which recently saw
the introduction of Gouz Farms
and the Reverend Mallette Senior
Citizens Apartments, would re-main
a PUD zone from Lena to
Washburn Avenues south to the
railroad station. Under the modi-fied
PUD regulations, all new
residential uses except multiple
housing units for the elderly
would be prohibited in.the..area..
The study also suggests the loos-ening
up of PUD zoning to allow
such interests as movies, bowling
and tennis facilities while noting
that the area near the downtown
and railroad station lends itself
primarily to "higher density
office and commercial space."
Building height would be in-creased
to 70 feet or approximate-ly
six stories. Prohibited in the
southerly area would be gasoline .
service stations, motor vehicle
dealers, auto repair shops or
service centers, car washes and
all other uses not specifically
permitted. The clause calling for
mandatory relocation payments
would be eliminated in the PUD*
The report also notes that the
consultants have concluded "that
the PUD zone, without the in-fusion
of public funds beyond
those which appear to be current-ly
available, will not be able to ef-fect
a transformation in the
street's character" and suggests
the establishment of a Service
Business (SB) zone for the re-mainder
of North Main Street
proper and the change in zoning
from PUD Secondary to Resi-dence
A of properties adjoin-ing
Main Street "as these areas
are comprised of homes in basi-cally
sound condition ''
Permittee: in the Service Busi-ness
District of North Main Street
would be all uses allowed in resi-dence
districts elsewhere in the
Village except for actual new
residences. Also allowed would
be retail, service, gasoline sta-tions
with accessory service,
distribution facilities, assembly
and fabricating, office, data pro-cessing,
printing, restaurants
(including fast-food operations),
gardening centers, nurseries,
landscaping businesses and other
similar uses. Specifically prohibi-
. ted. would be .vehicular.body re-.,
pair, wrecking or painting es-tablishments,
all uses prohibited
in industrial manufacturing dis-tricts,
any use which may be ob-noxious
or offensive, open air
parking lots operated as such for
more than five vehicles and live
poultry storage.
All uses in the SB district
would have to be screened from
the view of nearby residence,
zones by suitable landscaping'
and fencing. The Residence A
zone would'be amended~favpermit
accessory off-street parking to
serve the SB uses provided that
the parking area is immediately
adjacent to such usage' and is
suitably screened.
hi some instances the SB Dis-trict
would include properties
fronting on side streets such as
the Columbia Bronze property,
the south side of Evans Avenue
and West Dean Street and the
north side of Lena Avenue.
All buildings in the SB zone
would be restricted to-35 feet in-height.
Each would be required to
have a minimum of 10 feet pj
landscaped frontage. In cases
where a side yard adjoins a Resi-dence
A zone, a mimimum of
15 feet of open space would
separate the two properties.
Rear yards will be required to
have a minimum depth of 25
feet. The buffer zone between
SB and Residence properties
would be required to contain
evergreen shrubs and/or hedges
placed at close intervals or a con-tinuous
wall or fence at least four
feet in height (six feet if abutting
a residential use or if a loading
zone is to be screened).
Under the consultants' recom-mendations
every non-residential
building erected or altered on a
lot in excess of 4,000 feet will
have to have vehicular access to
the rear, side or into the building
_ for • loading; purposes. 'When a.
building.is less than 50 feet wide,
and fronts on North Main Street,
space and facilities for off-street
loading and unloading
would have to be provided.
State law mandates that a dog
not fenced in must be on a leash.
Loose dogs do not only upset gar-bage
cans, but can cause car ac-cidents
and, as is increasingly be-coming
the case, bite. Dog
owners should be aware that a
beloved pet may be killed by an
unwary motorist. Residents are
asked to call the Town of Hemp-stead
Dog Warden at 785-5220
when seeing a loose dog. Owners
reclaiming a pet must pay a $10
fee. Dogs not licensed as required
by law will not be returned until a
license is obtained.
Under the Village's ordinances
the person walking a dog is re-sponsible
for cleaning up after his
pet. The law was passed after
numerous residents complained
about the health hazards and un-sightly
conditions posed by the
growing dog population. Resi-dents
may sign a complaint at
Village Hall if they know the dog
owner and are willing to appear
as a witness. Violators may be
subject to a fine which the or-dinance
permits to be levied by
the Village Court.
Residents bothered by the con-stant
barking of a dog are asked
to submit a complaint in writing
listing the address of the dog's
owner to the Office of the Village
Qerk. The name of the com-plainant
will not be revealed to
the offender in such cases.
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("until Labor Day)
Come in and join your neighbors in keeping fit, having fun or just plain
relaxing at the lowest cost "spa" around — a municipal facility widely
praised as the "finest recreational complex in the Northeast." Beat.the
beach traffic now and find out how you can enjoy summertime fun all
year round.
Adults $2
Youths under 18 $1
Seniors (60 + ) $1
Guests (non-residents accompanied by
Freeporter) $2.50, $1.50
(plus $2 annual Activity Card for residents)
Olympic Outdoor Pool
Outdoor Diving Tank
Outdoor Wading Pool
Showers and Lockers
Indoor Pool
Steam & Sauna
Exercise Room
Chaise Lounges
Gymnasium
Handball Court
Bocci & Horseshoes
Restaurant
