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Petition against gas station in Baldwin Over 80 signatures signal community members opposition to plan “There are grave concerns, and we respectfully urge you to reconsider granting the variAn application to construct a ances for this gas station and 7-Eleven with a gas station in kindly request a private meetBaldwin was approved in May ing at your earliest conveby the Hempstead Town Board, nience,” the petition stated. to replace what was once a “Please understand that our Bank of America at 792 Atlan- community values its peaceful, tic Ave., which closed five years safe and attractive living enviago. ronments, and we Juliette Dixon believe this developlives adjacent to the m e n t wo u l d n o t site, at the Barclays align with those Condominium. values.” When she learned In November about the applica2021, the property’s tion late last year, owner, Keith Pelwhich was filed in legrino, of Baldwin November 2021, she 792 LLC, a developexpressed concerns ment company at a hearing that if sought a change in the project got the JulIETTE DIxoN zoning to include it green light from the in the town’s Gasoboard, it would neg- Baldwin line Service Station atively affect her District, as well as and her neighbors’ several variances health and quality of life. that included a waiver of the Late this summer, Dixon and Town’s prohibition of the conher neighbors wrote a letter struction of a gas station withand drew up a petition that has in 1,000 feet of another station. garnered more than 80 signaCommunity members tures from those who disap- expressed their concerns about prove of the proposed gas sta- t h e p ro j e c t at a h e a r i n g , tion, which they sent to Town prompting Pellegrino to make Supervisor Donald Clavin and adjustments from the board to Councilwoman Laura Ryder, his application. They included Dixon said. They are asking the planting 14-foot-tall arborvitae board to reconsider. Continued on page 5
By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ
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Mount Sinai visits Hangout one Happy Place Members of Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital visited Hangout One Happy Place on Oct. 15 to teach healthy eating habits. Story, additional photos, Page 3.
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