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Friday, October 18, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 42
GUIDE TO ROSLYN
BUSINESSES CHOOSE TO GO WITH COURAGE
ASSESSMENT BILL OVERRIDE FAILS
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Warner Avenue petition meets with disapproval
RIDING HIGH
Community, schools decry rezoning request from Roslyn-based developer BY R O S E W E L D ON Residents and school officials joined at the Village of Roslyn’s Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday to protest proposed rezoning at 301 Warner Ave. that could lead to a four-story mixed-use development on the property. The meeting began with Mayor John Durkin reminding the nearly 60 people gathered that the public hearing was meant to hear a petition for rezoning, not a project application. “We have not, in quite a while, had an applicant come before us to request a change of zone,” Durkin said. “We want to listen to what the petitioner has to say and what the public has to say.” The petitioners, who include Roslyn resident and real estate developer Jerry Karlik, were requesting a change from the current zoning, which is for commercial purposes. Karlik presented a short video indicating an intention to
build a mixed-use transit-oriented building with four floors, one retail and three residential. Lawyer Michael Sahn of the Uniondale-based law firm Sahn Ward Coschignano PLLC, who represents Karlik, said that the petitioners had met with representatives of the Roslyn school district to hear their concerns. “We spent over two hours having a very frank and honest exchange of ideas, and certainly the school district has concerns about the ultimate zoning, and/or project,” Sahn said. After representatives from Greenvale-based architectural firm Mojo Stumer presented the aesthetics of the possible building that could result from rezoning, representatives from the Hauppauge office of civil engineering firm Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc. (VHB) spoke about the effects on traffic in the area, on which the firm had conducted a study. Continued on Page 61
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Andrew Antenberg, president of the Office of Class Councils and a senior at Roslyn High School, makes final remarks at the rededication of the Horse Tamer statue. See story on page 2.
Council wasn’t told about park overruns: De Giorgio BY R O S E W E L D ON
cording to Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio. The New Hyde Park public No change orders for the problem-fraught Clinton park and pool is the subject of G. Martin Park project were a hotly contested legal case bebrought before the North tween the town and WantaghHempstead Town Board, ac- based contractor Gramercy
Group. The town originally granted a contract to Gramercy in 2017 for a $19.4 million bid to renovate the then-50-yearold park, which increased to $23 million once additional Continued on Page 50
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