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Friday, August 16, 2019
Vol. 94, No. 33
FALL HOME & GARDEN
THOMASTON HIKES PARKING FINES
HUNDREDS SUE FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE
PAGES 29-36
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Lake Success, ExteNet head to mediation
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Must be completed Sept. 27; village denied 9 cell nodes in May BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN A federal judge ordered ExteNet Systems and the Village of Lake Success to enter mediation last week in hopes of resolving whether the local government acted unlawfully in denying the wireless company’s proposal to install cell nodes across the village. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein issued the order Aug. 6. The parties must select a mediator by Aug. 27 and complete mediation, a process where a third party assists in reaching a settlement, by Sept. 27. Edward Ross, the village’s attorney on the ExteNet case, was not immediately available for comment on Wednesday morning, but told Newsday that the village is “confident that its decision to approve some, but not all, of ExteNet’s proposed nodes will ultimately be upheld by the Court.”
Brendan Goodhouse and Christopher Fisher, attorneys representing ExteNet, could not be reached for comment on Wednesday morning. In May, Lake Success trustees had rejected nine cell nodes pitched by ExteNet Systems Inc., a company that designs, builds and manages distributed networks to boost data capacity and cell phone coverage. ExteNet then sued on June 12. ExteNet argued that the village exceeded its authority and violated provisions in the Telecommunications Act by placing a “substantially higher procedural and substantive burden” on the company in court papers. The company also contended it extensively modified its applications to be responsive to concerns from residents, only to be denied with “after the fact findings.” Attorneys for the village counContinued on Page 61
PHOTO COURTESY OF NASSAU COUNTY
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran lauched a summer book club. See story on page 61.
Permits delayed by too few county fire marshals BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
across Nassau County, causing a major delay in openings, according to union representaJust 17 fire marshals are tives. Staffing counts obtained assigned to review the plans and conduct inspections of from the county identified 57 hundreds of new businesses uniformed marshals and 37
support staff members for a total of 94 full-time employees in the fire marshal’s office. However, union representatives contend that the office only has 56 uniformed marshals and six Continued on Page 51
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