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Friday, July 23, 2021
Vol. 70, No. 30
N E W H Y D E PA R K
SUMMER DINING GUIDE PAGES 19-22
HERRICKS ALUM IN OLYMPICS
NASSAU TO GET UP TO $115M IN OPIOID SETTLEMENT
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NHP opts out of cannabis sales in village
BOILER BOUND
Trustees approve plans for 3-story self-storage unit on 12th Street BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI The New Hyde Park board of trustees voted on two major decisions for the village: approving the special use permit for a selfstorage facility and opting out of licensing retail marijuana dispensaries. In a public meeting last Thursday evening, trustees voted in favor of allowing a three-story, self-storage building to be built at 300 South 12th St. The vote was unanimous, though not after amendments to the building’s façade landscape design. More than half the windows were removed and tinted black, parking lot traffic patterns were readjusted for one-way travel, and grass and evergreen trees were added along the property line. Andrea Tsoukalas Curto, attorney for the applicant, presented her client’s plan to the board of trustees. She pointed to the
amended landscape design as giving a “nice residential feel,” addressing previous concerns. Also identified at Thursday’s meeting, a continuation from a June 17 hearing, was the location of signage. “We’re proposing to put it on Third Avenue and South 12th St., and we will accept a condition not to place signage on the south side of the building,” Curto said. “We understand that’s where all the residences are and we don’t need it there anyway.” Board approval is required for the construction of any new building greater than 2,500 square feet. A previous proposal for the project was deemed in violation of village code and denied by the board in April. “We are the capital of self-storage places,” Mayor Christopher Devane said. “I’m sure there are 10 other different things we may want to see there, but the bottom Continued on Page 26
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAKEVILLE ESTATES CIVIC ASSOCIATION
The Lakeville Estates Civic Association honored Alfred Squicciarino with a $1,000 scholarship to attend Purdue University last week.
NHP man faces same DWI plea deal in Nassau BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
ecutors as he did from a Brooklyn appellate court for a drunk driving incident 3 1/2 years A New Hyde Park man and ago, according to multiple reCoast Guard veteran Keith Dil- ports. Dillon, 32, pleaded guilty lon will receive the same plea deal from Nassau County pros- to aggravated vehicular as-
sault, assault and drunken driving in a plea bargain resulting in a sentence of up to 12 years in prison. Dillon was allegedly intoxicated and impaired by Xanax when he drove his 2014 Continued on Page 27
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