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HOME & DESIGN
CANDIDATES SET IN NHP, FLORAL PARK
MANGANO CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEGIN
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Belmont project contractor gets review extension
ON THE RECORD
Record number of comments received will take longer to process: Shatz BY J E D HENDRIXSON Empire State Development has approved an extension of a contract with one of their consulting firms for the Belmont redevelopment project in response to a record-setting number of public comments. The state agency voted to approve a year-long extension of their agreement with environmental consultant AKRF at a board of directors’ meeting Thursday, citing a need for additional environmental review of the project and a historic number of comments received relating to the draft environmental impact study. During the comment period of the draft environmental impact study, in which the study was available to the public for review and Empire State Development hosted three public hearings, thousands of comments were received, the most of any project in the state agency’s history, according to vice
president of planning and environmental review Rachel Shatz. Empire State Development said in a statement that they are committed to maintaining the project’s original timeline. “Yesterday, we reiterated the same timeline we’ve had since the beginning of this project, and we still anticipate to release the Final Belmont EIS in the second quarter of 2019,” Empire State Development press secretary Jack Sterne said. “We’ve received a very large number of comments from Long Islanders – proof positive that the process is working – and this routine contract extension shows that we take the environmental review process seriously.” The original consulting period, September 2017 to September 2019, has been extended to September 2020. In addition to the approval of the extension, ESD will ask the developers, New York Arena Partners, to pay AKRF an additional 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 3.
Couple alleges police overreach in NHP BY J E D HENDRIXSON
following an incident in New Hyde Park that left them out in the cold. Kan Tan said he and his A Floral Park family plans to file a complaint of police family were treated unfairly overreach with the Nassau by an officer after being pulled County Police Department over by a police officer on Jeri-
cho Turnpike Feb. 10. Nassau County police said they were currently looking into the matter. “From the moment he pulled me over he was very agContinued on Page 74
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