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Friday, February 7, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 6
VALENTINE’S DAY GUIDE
D’URSO WON’T SEEK RE-ELECTION
CURRAN AWARDS TRANSITORIENTED HOUSING GRANTS
PAGES 37-44
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ExteNet sues N. Hempstead on node delay
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Infrastructure provider claims town hasn’t responded to applications BY R O S E W E L D ON ExteNet Systems has filed suit against the Town of North Hempstead for failing to act on its 16 applications for cell nodes in unincorporated areas of Port Washington. The wireless infrastructure provider, which had been contracted by Verizon Wireless to build nodes across the North Shore, alleges in the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, that the town’s council failed to act on the company’s applications within a “reasonable” time frame. ExteNet says in its complaint that its applications were filed with the town on Aug. 23, 2019, and that 14 days after the filings, on Sept. 6, the town paused the 90-day “shot clock” by “requesting additional information, indicating that the Defendants did not consider ExteNet’s application to be complete.”
The company says the town received additional information from it on Oct. 1, and that with the “shot clock” reset by Federal Communications Commission rules, the town had until Dec. 30 to act on the applications. Over the course of the town’s meetings in the ensuing months, the applications were not brought up in public session by the board, “triggering the filing action within 30 days thereafter,” the suit says. The complaint, which also claims that ExteNet began working with the town on the applications in 2017, says that the town had asked the company to hold off on submitting them. “In its almost three years of discussions with various town personnel, ExteNet was repeatedly asked to hold off on filing applications until the town could develop various processes, a Right-of-Way Access Agreement, and a local ordinance.” Continued on Page 79
PHOTO BY CHRIS MARE
A member of Manhasset Crew rows at indoor regatta against Port Washington Crew,on Jan. 26.
Flower Hill’s McNamara won’t seek re-election BY R O S E W E L D ON Flower Hill Mayor Robert McNamara will not seek re-election to his post this year and will instead run for trustee. Deputy Mayor Brian
Herrington and Trustee Kate Hirsch have each announced their campaigns for mayor. Beginning in 2010, McNamara served as a village trustee and later became deputy mayor to then Mayor Elaine Phil-
lips. When Phillips was elected to the state Senate in 2016, McNamara was appointed to take on the role. He won an uncontested election bid in 2018. With Herrington and Continued on Page 79
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