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Planning Board rejects AT&T antenna plan tion. Kenneth Weinstein and James M. Greenberg were absent. AT&T sought to install a A proposal to install an AT&T wireless antenna atop canister-style tri-sector antenthe Glen Cove Shopping Center, na extending roughly 20 feet on Forest Avenue, was denied above the existing roofline, a on Nov. 18, ending six months total height of roughly 41 feet. of contentious public hearings U t i l i t i e s wo u l d h ave r u n through existing and intensifying conduits, with no debate over cell serg round disturvice needs and their potential bance. According to impact on city AT&T, the landlord, neighborhood. B r u c e W a l l e r, The application deemed the North— a request for a west corner of the special-use permit shopping center and site plan roof the only viable approval — drew location. dozens of residents Attor ney Anna to Planning Board M e rc a d o C l a rke, meetings in Seprepresenting AT&T, tember and earlier LIA LEONE said the antenna this month. Many Glen Cove would be the “least urged the board to intrusive means” of reject the project, a d d re s s i n g wh at citing health conshe described as an cer ns, potential declines in “undisputed” gap in the carriproperty value and what they er’s wireless coverage. argued would be a permanent “This facility consists of change to the character of the essentially a 16- by-2-inch trineighborhood behind the shop- s e c t o r c a n i s t e r a n t e n n a , ” ping center. Clarke explained, noting that B o a r d m e m b e r s P h i l i p the visible portion would be Pulaski, Andrew Kaufman, painted to blend in with the Michael Corigliano, Richard building and be minimally Maccarone and Ellen Pantaza- noticeable. “It is the least intrukos voted against the applica-
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Fritz Trinklein, whose brother was nearly killed while driving past the Jericho Cider Mill on Thanksgiving 1984, has a proposal to make parking and exiting there safer, so what happened to his brother doesn’t happen again.
Glen Head man has plan to make cider mill parking safe By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
For decades, Glen Head resident Fritz Trinklein has watched cars line the shoulder of State Route 106 as crowds flock to the historic Jericho Cider Mill each fall. To Trinklein, the scene isn’t simply one of seasonal congestion. It is a dangerous pattern that nearly cost his family dearly. “My brother was almost killed,” Trinklein said. “He was in the hospital a long time.” Fritz’s then 25-year old brother Hans was driving from his home to the family Thanksgiving gathering in Brookville in 1984 when a vehicle leaving the cider mill broadsided him. After recovering from the accident,
Hans left his accounting job to become a Lutheran pastor and professor, and now works at a ministry in Indiana. Fritz, 71, is an entrepreneur. In the decades since the accident, Fritz said, nothing has been done to make parking in the area safer. “We always go by there, especially around Thanksgiving, very nervous, because of all those cars all along the road there, and moms are pushing baby buggies and old people are walking,” he said. “Meanwhile, cars are going 60 miles an hour past them.” The mix of speeding traffic on the route no available off-road parking and crowded pedestrian crossings has made the attraction a longstanding safety concern for the CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
his decision is going to have impacts on our health and safety, our property values...
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