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Friday, January 24, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 4
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Plandome rejects final two nodes
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Village, already sued by ExteNet, doubles down on applications BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Village of Plandome trustees rejected two cell nodes from ExteNet Systems at a crowded board meeting Tuesday night, with residents and officials again citing concerns about aesthetics and property values. Plandome trustees voted 4-0 to reject the two nodes, meaning the village did not accept any of the Illinois-based distributed network company’s 10 node applications. The village rejected eight in November, leading ExteNet to sue it a month later. If approved, the two nodes would have been installed on 35-foot-tall green decorative poles at 25 The Ridge and on the south side of North Drive, west of the intersection with Brookside Drive and east of the intersection of Woodland Drive.
“I think it is particularly clear that all the reasons that apply for why we did not approve the eight equally apply to these two,” Trustee Andrew Bartels said. “The aesthetic reasons, the impact on property values… Indeed, if anything the case against is stronger with these two nodes than in the case with the other ones.” Plandome’s 10 rejected nodes are part of a larger plan with Verizon, which has contracted ExteNet Systems to get 66 cellular nodes installed throughout North Hempstead. Plandome residents in attendance, who expressed opposition to installing cellular nodes in the village, applauded the board’s decision. Rachel Yemm, a Woodland Drive resident urging rejection of the two nodes, said their installation Continued on Page 52
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MANHASSET SCHOOL DISTRICT
Shelter Rock Elementary School first-grader Zoe was named a national chess champion. The school district did not give her last name.
Buckley is a ‘bad neighbor’: residents BY R O S E W E L D ON The Buckley Country Day School is a “bad neighbor,” according to a group of North Hills residents. The comments were made
at a Jan. 15 public hearing during a North Hills Board of Trustees meeting on an application from the school that would include, among other elements, the addition of 197 parking spots to the existing
120. Attorney Bruce Migatz of the Garden City firm Albanese and Albanese, representing Buckley in the matter, presented the application, the result of Continued on Page 52
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