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RXR preps for Engineers club development Hopes to present plans to Roslyn Harbor board in Sept.: executive BY T E R I W EST RXR Realty, which owns Roslyn Harbor’s Engineers Country Club and holds about $18.8 billion in gross assets, hopes to have a housing development proposal ready to present to the village board by September, said Joseph Graziose, RXR executive vice president of residential development and construction. The likely scope of that potential development shrank in July when a newly released village land use study concluded that the village’s zoning code should remain as is. The code requires that lots in the country club’s zone be a minimum of two acres, which means the approximately 139-acre property could potentially fit about 70. To preserve the open space, however, the village is considering borrowing from a state provision that allows for the clustering of development in exchange for the
preservation of open space. That would likely look like a multiunit building where the number of units would be equivalent to the number of lots the land could legally be subdivided into. When RXR purchased the country club it was dreaming much bigger, Graziose said. It was thinking of something like its sixbuilding, 230-unit Ritz-Carlton Residences in North Hills, and it went ahead drafting large-scale plans despite a village moratorium on subdivisions that lasted the length of the land use study. RXR created a variety of iterations of what the development could look like, Graziose said, but they’re no longer possibilities because the zoning will maintain the two-acre lot standard. “Given the moratorium went on for so long, which was a bit frustrating for us, we probably spent more time penciling out things that aren’t going to come to Continued on Page 77
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
From left, Timothy Pecoraro, Darin Frank and Justin Elder.
Roslyn Pines lifeguards revive man who lost pulse BY T E R I W EST
of a three-person team that revived the Roslyn Pines Swim Lifeguard Justin Elder said and Tennis Club patron in time after rescuing a man from a for him to head to the hospital pool, Sunday, July 21, is a day and get a pacemaker. “When I first started CPR he’ll never forget. The 20-year-old was part he looked gone,” said lifeguard
Darin Frank. “I had never seen something like that.” Elder was the lifeguard on duty, scanning the pool as usual, when he heard a woman scream for help. Her husband, Continued on Page 93
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