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Friday, September 21, 2018
Vol. 3, No. 38
Port WashingtonTimes MINEOLA FAIR
PORT FOOTBALL MOVES UP
CUOMO TROUNCES NIXON IN NASSAU
PAGES 41-56
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No decision on Manhasset Isle apartment
REMEMBRANCE POT
Project seeks 8 variances for 4-story structure on former Dejana site BY LU K E TOR R A N C E A public hearing on a four-story mixed-use building on Manhasset Isle drew a capacity crowd to Manorhaven Village Hall on Monday, but no decision. The village’s Planning Board decided to adjourn the hearing until November. The 26,000-square-foot property is bordered by Yennicock Avenue to the north, Sagamore Hill Drive to the west and Secatoag Avenue to the south. The property would have two four-story! structures: Sagamore Manor West and Sagamore Manor North, each containing nine residential apartments and two commercial units. Each apartment would contain two bedrooms. Attorney Howard Avrutine assured the board that the project would not block views of the waterfront or cast shadows and would revitalize a stagnant waterfront district. “The architectural! design
seeks to create what we’d call an old Port Washington vibe, one which complements and enhances the area,” he said. Avrutine added that the twobedroom apartments would not attract families with school-age children, so the development would have a negligible effect on the number of students in the Port Washington school district. The! application submitted to the board requested 10 variances for the project; Avrutine withdrew two of them. Of the remaining variances being sought, the first was to obtain a special permit for the project, which is required for mixed-use developments in the E1 zoning area. The second was a variance to allow residential and nonresidential access through the same entrance. The third was to exceed the village’s building height of 26 feet and two stories from street level, Continued on Page 81
PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE
A friend of Ed Balcourt tends to an eggplant in a painted pot dedicated in his memory. Balcourt’s friends and family gathered outside the Landmark on Main last week to remember the Port Washington-based painter. See story on page 13.
Waterfront moratorium hearing on Sept. 27 BY LU K E TORRANCE
um on waterfront development in Port Washington. Should the local law The Town of North Hemp- be passed, it would extend stead will hold a public hear- the moratorium on develing on Thursday to determine opment! along a stretch of whether! to extend a moratori- Manhasset Bay in the unincor-
porated area of Port. The moratorium is set to expire on Nov. 1, but the extension! would take it through the end of the year. The hearing will be held during North Hempstead’s Continued on Page 80
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