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Woodmere Club is the focus of 5TCA By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
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THe FIVe TowNS Civic Association urged community members to voice their opinions on the future of the Woodmere Club property.
With the possibility that there could be an agreement among the Town of Hempstead, the villages of Lawrence and Woodsburgh and the owners of the Woodmere Club to build 80 homes on the property, the Five Tow n s C iv i c A s s o c i a t i o n emailed a letter on Aug. 3 urging the community to voice their opinions to elected officials. The municipalities and Woodmere Club owners Efrem Gerszberg and Robert Weiss are embroiled in a $200 million federal lawsuit over the 2020 creContinued on page 7
Five Towners battling overdevelopment will meet Aug. 16 By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
Five Towners will meet at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club on Aug. 16 to make local elected officials aware of their opposition to major developments — such as proposed projects at the Woodmere Club and the approved Pearsall Project — and to voice the need for improving the Nassau Expressway. The meeting was organized after the July 21 Lawrence village board meeting. Several residents expressed their anger that Cedarhurst had passed a
zoning change for the Pearsall Project — a development of three residential building with a total of 98 units — and requested that Lawrence halt or mitigate the proposed development, and more stringently oppose other transit-oriented development proposed for the area. Transit-oriented development promotes the redevelopment of light industrial and manufacturing zones to encourage a mix of housing and commercial use, closely integrated with mass transit. Lawrence mayor Alex Edelman told residents that if they
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nfortunately, the only way this issue gets solved is civic duty. JeFF lANdY
Lawrence deouty mayor organized a meeting, he would invite other elected officials to listen. “I was talking about this years ago,” village Trustee Paris Popack said at the July meeting, refer ring to her involvement in the Lawrence
Association, the village’s civic association. Popack added that very few people heeded her words at the time. “Unfortunately, the only way this issue gets solved is civic duty,” Deputy Mayor Jeff Landy told the residents at the board meeting, adding that development was discussed at previous
meetings when, more often than not, few residents were in attendance. That’s not expected not to be a problem next Tuesday, according to longtime Lawrence resident Judi Bernstein, who sat in on the meeting last month. Bernstein said she expected at least Continued on page 11