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Manorhaven eyes team up on waterfront
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Village considers plan to work with other communities around the bay BY LU K E TORRANCE After hearing what residents didn’t like about the waterfront analysis earlier this month, the Manorhaven Board of Trustees asked those attending Thursday’s board meeting what the village’s next move should be. “We’re very clear on what you don’t want,” said Deputy Clerk Donald Badaczewski. “What we like to know going forward is what you do want.” The biggest change suggested in the analysis, allowing building in the water overlay district, has been taken off the table. Following a promise from Mayor Jim Avena earlier this month, the board accepted a resolution to ban building on the marinas. “I am introducing a resolution to so there can be no doubt where the Board of Trustees and I stand on the issue,” Avena said. Badaczewski talked about a meeting he had attended the
night before with the Cow Neck Historical Society and" Caroline DuBois, the acting secretary of the Manorhaven Action Committee. During that meeting, he said, an idea came up to have all the villages on the Port Washington peninsula work together to improve the waterfront. “I think it is a great idea and we" in Manorhaven would like to take the lead on that,” Avena said. A portion of Manhasset Bay waterfront near Inspiration Wharf is currently under a moratorium by the Town of North Hempstead. DuBois called Manorhaven conducting its own analysis a “piecemeal” effort and said one big analysis on zoning around the bay, using the state’s" Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, would be preferable. “All I’m saying is, this seems like a hopeful outcome of a somewhat contentious topic,” she said. In order to pull such an effort together, DuBois requested that the Continued on Page 116
PHOTO COURTESY OF RABBI BEREL PALTIEL
Chabad of Port Washington Hebrew school students work together to prepare Passover dishes.
Port Washington schools get additional state aid BY LU K E TORRANCE The Port Washington School District will get a boost of more than $600,000 in additional aid for 2018-19 under
the state budget passed last week. The additional funding will bring state aid to the district to more than $9 million, up from almost $8.5 million last year. That difference —
$636,750 — is a 7.53 percent increase, the fourth-highest increase by percentage in Nassau County. Only the" Hewlett-Woodmere, Lawrence, and UnionContinued on Page 104
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