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Friday, September 9, 2022
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Hearing for Shore Road plan
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Study accepted at Sept. 1 Town meeting BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R The proposed $130 million West Shore Road rental project has had its draft environmental impact statement accepted by North Hempstead and a public hearing will be held Sept. 28. The public hearing will be at 7 p.m. in the Town Board Room at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset. The hearing will consider the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for West Shore Residences with a petition for a zoning change from “ResidenceAAA” to “Multiple Residence.” Zoning refers to the specifications that permit and prohibit the use of real estate in certain areas. Under the present Residence-AAA zoning regulations, which govern the size and scope of developments, the project could not proceed as planned. Development under ResidenceAAA zoning would cause the subdivision of the property into four single-family residential lots and the construction of single-family residences on those lots. In its Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Southern Land Company, a Tennessee-based developer, said this is not a reasonable alternative. However, the developer could build its planned seven-story, 176unit multiple residences with a 29-slip public marina if the Town rezoned the area to Multiple Residence. Council Member Mariann DaliContinued on Page 43
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Elementary School students celebrate the first day of the new school year.
Town repeals abortion sites law 50-year-old section of code limited where pregnancies could be terminated BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y After two hours of heated debate, the North Hempstead Town Board voted unanimously Thursday to repeal a 50-year-old section of the town code that limited where pregnancies could be terminated to hospitals, facilities administered by a hospital or facilities affiliated with
a hospital. The public hearing, which drew 25 comments, was a continuation of a two-hour hearing in which Town Board Democrats voted 4-2 along party lines to push the vote to Thursday night. Republican Supervisor Jennifer DeSena did not attend the August meeting, saying she had a “long-
standing prior family commitment”, leaving Deputy Supervisor Joe Scalero to lead the meeting, but without any voting power. On Thursday, DeSena revised her explanation, saying she was in Delaware with her family on vacation. State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills), who spoke in favor of repealing the law, criticized DeSena for her
absence in August and the change in the reason she gave. “Supervisor, I was disappointed that you weren’t able to be here last time because I know that so many of our residents are eager to hear whether or not you support a woman’s right to access an abortion in the Town of North Hempstead,” Kaplan Continued on Page 42
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