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Friday, July 19, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 29
SCHOOL YEAR
ROSLYN SOCIAL OPENS IN VILLAGE
COUNTY GOP INTRODUCES ASSESSMENT CHANGES
PAGES 31-34, 39-42
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Villages revisit, loosen policies on solicitation
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Seek to avoid lawsuits after one settled with pest control company BY T E R I W EST North Shore villages are changing their solicitation laws, with some creating “do not solicit lists” for residents, after a company that reached a settlement with the Village of Floral Park alerted them about unconstitutional restrictions in their codes. Munsey Park, Roslyn Estates, Old Westbury, Kensington and North Hills have all addressed the issue in the last two weeks. Some of the villages had previously effectively banned commercial solicitation entirely. Old Westbury put a threemonth moratorium on its current solicitation law to allow the village board time to amend it, Kensington, Munsey Park and Roslyn Estates are creating “do not solicit” lists and North Hills is planning to eliminate rules about solicitation from its code altogether. The company alerting them to the issues is Aptive Environmental,
a pest control company that primarily markets through door-todoor solicitation, said its attorney Jeremy Fielding. Summer is Aptive Environmental’s biggest selling season, and with a Long Island branch that opened a couple years ago, it is ready to start soliciting here, Fielding said. But before doing so, it reviews the code of each municipality to see what it must abide by and whether there are outdated restrictions, he said. “Some of them have been in the books for 50 years,” Fielding said of the regulations. “There’s never been a reason to update it because nobody’s ever asked them to.” Floral Park settled a lawsuit with Aptive Environmental early this year. The Utah-based pest control company sued the village in August 2018 after the village did not amend its legislation banning commercial solicitation. It called Continued on Page 58
PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS
Bart Cosolito, a Port Washington resident and former Grumman engineer, recollects his experience on the Apollo program. See story on page 12.
Ed board confronts village about rental complex BY T E R I W EST
complex near the Roslyn Long Island Rail Road Station. “We know from other projThe Roslyn Board of Education spoke before the Village ects that have been developed, of Roslyn Board of Trustees the number of school children Tuesday night, adamant that that can potentially be generit block a proposed apartment ated in multiple dwelling of
that size can be potentially very adversely impactful to our schools,” said Board of Education President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy. This was not the first Continued on Page 59
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