Catching Up
It’s been awhile since my last entry (I was away for a short vacation and life has gotten in the way since) and I wanted to catch up with a few brief updates and community announcements. These lulls in activity on the blog are the reason anyone who wants to keep up with what we are doing should subscribe. If you are going to subscribe, make sure you subscribe to the blog itself rather than to a particular entry. When you subscribe to the blog on the main page, you will get an e-mail notification whenever a new entry is posted. If you subscribe to a particular entry, you will be bombarded with e-mails every time someone posts a comment for that entry.
The Birches covered in The Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot:
There is an article this week in the Enterprise Pilot that covers the sewer meeting in Cold Spring Harbor last week and highlights the Birches. This is exactly the kind of mainstream coverage that we needed to get more people involved and put pressure on our elected officials to resolve their cost sharing differences. The way I see it, it’s all our money anyway.
You can read the article at:
http://www.antonnews.com/oysterbayenterprisepilot/2007/04/13/news/
If anyone would be willing to write an editorial to submit, it would go a long way towards keeping the issue in the spotlight.
The following notice s were sent out by Friends of the Bay, so I am passing them on. Taking part in these events is the best way to meet like minded people and to get involved.
Operation Clean Sweep:
Earth Day 2007
Operation Clean Sweep
Downtown Oyster Bay
Sunday, April 22, 2007
8:00 am Meet at Appliance World
12:30 pm Bandstand Ceremony
presented by
Friends of the Bay
The Oyster Bay Chamber of Commerce
The Oyster Bay Civic Association
Oyster Bay Main Street Association
Spring Flowers, "Adopt-a-Block" Sponsors, Street Sweep, Coastal Clean-Up and more...
A "Clean Oyster Bay" poster design contest is planned for our local children.
These events are made possible through the generous financial support of
The John Specce Agency - State Farm Insurance
Ryan Beck & Co. - The Alex Gallego Group
The State Bank of Long Island - Oyster Bay
Thank you to our Earth Day Volunteers & Supporters
Atlantic Steamer Fire Company, Boys Scouts & Cub Scouts of America
Girls Scouts & Brownies of the USA, Dodds & Eder,
Oyster Bay Fire Company, OBEN District Schools, Whole Foods
Want to volunteer? Bring the whole family!
E-mail us at: muir.deguzman@oysterbaychamber.org
Stop Avalon Meeting:
SAVE-THE-DATE - Coalition to STOP AVALON Informational Meeting
The Coalition to STOP AVALON is holding an Informational Meeting on Saturday, April 28, 5-7 P.M., at the Sagamore Yacht Club in Oyster Bay to provide an update on AvalonBay's proposal for a super-high-density apartment complex in the Hamlet of Oyster Bay.
RECAP:
After stating that a complex much less than 300 units was not economically viable, Avalon withdrew that application in July 2006 in response to Town Supervisor Venditto's public expression that the proposal was ".so widely unacceptable.", but then purchased the former Hallock Chevrolet site in Oyster Bay (across from the existing BMW dealership) in August 2006 for $8.68 million.
Avalon is poised to file another application with the Town of Oyster Bay for a 150-unit super-high-density rental complex at the former Hallock site. While the application has not been formally submitted, Avalon's website for the proposed complex confirmed its intention to construct a 150-UNIT 4-STORY RENTAL COMPLEX ON THE 5-ACRE SITE. Based on the Town's highest permitted density for this form of housing, the maximum number of units for a properly zoned 5-acre site would be 80, with maximum building heights of no more than 2-stories. A report on the website sets monthly rental prices of $1,650 (studio), $2,400 (1-bedroom), and $3,000 (2-bedroom).
Village of Bayville Beach Clean Up:
Bayville will also be having an Earth Day beach clean up. Volunteers are asked to report to Soundside Beach on April 21, 2007 at 9:00 am
More entries to come:
Over the next few weeks I will do my best to post some new entries on various topics, including the erosion at Center Island Beach (and the Ransom Sea Wall) and a MNBM update.
Be patient.
(and subscribe)
Barry E. Lamb
Bayville
The Northender also has coverage of the Birches this week, including some interesting details that I was unaware of.
http://www.northender.com/feature_story_details.jsp?id=933
I don't think that there is any question that the letters and political pressure that we have generated have had a profound effect on moving this forward and focusing attention on it.
My question is this: what has the DEC and the Attorney General's office done to ensure compliance since 2004, and what do they plan to do now?
Barry
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