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Friday, March 1, 2019
Vol. 94, No. 9
HOME & DESIGN
MAN ARRESTED IN ESTATES BURGLARY
MANGANO CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEGIN
PAGES 35-54
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G.N. Estates mulls pot ban, new village hall
ON THE RECORD
Village may act ahead of state marijuana legalization; new building also discussed BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Great Neck Estates set the stage for a prohibition on recreational marijuana Monday night, setting a public hearing date of April 8 for a law that would ban its sale within the village. Attorney A. Thomas Levin said the law is a zoning change that would bar any property within the village from selling or dispensing recreational marijuana or any other substance that is illegal under state or federal law. “Marijuana remains a schedule 1 drug under federal law and it is illegal to possess it, grow it, sell it or dispense it,” Levin said. “So this law would make it illegal to do that in the village regardless.” This proposal comes as other North Shore villages and the Town of North Hempstead have moved to regulate the sale of marijuana in anticipation of New York state legalizing the drug for recreational
use. The Village of Munsey Park, for example, voted to ban marijuana, while the villages of Mineola, Floral Park, New Hyde Park have changed their zoning to limit marijuana dispensaries to certain parts of their villages. The Town of North Hempstead also unanimously voted to ban the sale of recreational marijuana while capping medical marijuana dispensaries at two and limiting them to a handful of industrial areas in the unincorporated parts of town. The Village of Williston Park approved! a law to limit the sale and distribution of marijuana and marijuana-related products in retail and non-medical settings. The Town of Hempstead to the south is also considering a yearlong moratorium on recreational marijuana sales as Nassau County’s marijuana task force mulls how municipalities should move Continued on Page 73
PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran fielded questions from Blank Slate Media publisher Steve Blank and audience members at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset last Thursday. See story on page 4.
VGN approves 6-month subdivision moratorium BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
subdivisions on Tuesday night, saying they needed time to study the issue. Peter Bee, the village atVillage of Great Neck trustees approved a six-month mor- torney, said the law essentially atorium on residential property prohibits the granting of per-
mits for residential properties being subdivided into separate parcels for six months to give the board has time to review the issue and potentially proContinued on Page 74
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