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Village settles ADA parking lawsuit
HO HO HO ON 7TH STREET
BY MEG MORGAN NORRIS After a year in federal court, the Village of Garden City has entered into a settlement agreement with resident Gerry Kelly that will require the Village to designate three on-street handicapped parking spaces on Seventh Street between Franklin and Hilton Avenues. The agreement, which was approved by federal Judge Joanna Seybert in the Eastern District of New York on July 30th, says that neither side is at fault. However, it grants Kelly virtually everything he had requested when he filed suit. Kelly, who is a former president of the Western Property Owners Association, suffers from multiple sclerosis, and had originally requested that the Village provide on-street handicapped parking spaces on Seventh Street in 2017, when he spoke at a Traffic Commission public hearing. At the hearing, Kelly requested that the Village designate at least three of the approximately sixty spaces on Seventh Street as handicapped accessible. In court papers, Kelly’s attorneys noted that while there are See page 29
Train idling overnight Parking rules change in Field 7N draws residents’ ire
Record crowds showed up on Seventh Street to spread holiday cheer at the “Christmas in July Promenade” on Friday evening, July 26th. This week’s theme is “Back to the 80’s”.
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
After much deliberation over the past two years resulted in a parking permit program which sets aside 35 spaces at a cost of $275 per year, further actions to address the parking congestion and LIRR commuters misuse of the free village parking lot took shape with Board of Trustees’ approvals at their Thursday, July 18, meeting in Village Hall. The Board authorized expansion of the program for an unspecified number of spaces
closer to Hilton Hall, at Parking Field 7N’s western end. Parking Field 7N is the lot on the north side of Seventh Street. The move calls for between 8 and 30 more parking spaces to become permit-based, “as determined by the village administrator.” At the Board meeting, Village Treasurer Irene Woo explained: “Once the Board approved the permit parking program for 7N, Village staff sold all 35 permits and there’s a waiting list. We currently have nine individuals on the waiting list. This
item is asking that the Board authorize to add an additional 8 to 30 spaces to add to the sales of those permits,” she said. Village Attorney Peter Bee commented that technically the resolution for July 18 increases the total number of permit spaces allotted to a minimum of 43 from the original 35, and sets a maximum of 65 spaces, as determined by the village administrator. The Board did not discuss the expansion of the paid parking program in 7N, and no
Residents of the Village of Garden City’s western section were alarmed on July 26th as, according to resident Karen Reiter and others with homes along Greenridge Avenue, a 300-foot-long diesel work train remained idling on the “non-active spur” for nine hours overnight. Residents say no prior notice of the intended activity and the noise created was provided -- not from the Long Island Rail Road, the project contractors for building the Third Rail (3TC, a consortium of companies forming the 3rd Track Constructors) as well as no notification from the Incorporated Village of Garden City. In an email sent to Garden City Mayor Theresa Trouvé, village executive staff, The Garden City News and several of her neighbors in the West section, Reiter said the issue of the idling train was compounded by a lack of response and information
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BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
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