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Town presents vision for Port waterfront
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New zoning seeks to maintain public access, views of Manhasset Bay BY LU K E TOR R A N C E What should Port Washington’s waterfront look like? The Town of North Hempstead has put a moratorium on construction along Manhasset Bay until that question can be answered. Last Wednesday, town officials gave a presentation at the Port Washington Public Library outlining some goals for the waterfront and received feedback from Port residents. Michael Levine, the town’s commissioner of planning and environmental protection, said North Hempstead wants the waterfront to be a place for recreation, entertainment, education, shopping and dining. The plan called for the Bay Walk to be extended from Port Washington North down into Sunset Park and into the moratorium area. “It is important to keep Port
Washington as a destination,” Town Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio said. The plan is to achieve these goals through zoning along the waterfront. Levine said the town wanted to see an appropriate"mix of land uses and a more efficient use of space while balancing the public interest and the rights of property owners. In the stretch of waterfront — which contains Inspiration Wharf, Louie’s and the Knickerbocker Hotel — the town wants to continue the Bay Walk and maintain view corridors, so the water can still be seen from Main Street. Levine said he wants at least 20 feet of public access along the shoreline and view corridors that are 35 feet from the front property line to the water’s edge. To keep these view corridors, Levine said, the town would enContinued on Page 21
PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE
A volunteer paddles out onto Manhasset Bay to assist with a cleanup sponsored by Kostal Paddle and Residents Foward. See story on page 20.
Judge released suspect weeks before murder BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
two weeks before he is suspected of killing a North Shore University Hospital nurse and kidnapping A Connecticut man who was a woman in Los Angeles. Danueal Drayton, 27, of charged with strangling an exgirlfriend was released without New Haven, Connecticut, was bail by a Nassau County judge arrested in Nassau County on
June 30 for allegedly choking his ex-girlfriend, who survived, and charged with felony second-degree strangulation and third-degree trespassing,"Nassau County court records show. Continued on Page 22
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