Port Washington 2019_10_11

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Friday, October 11, 2019

Vol. 4, No. 41

Port WashingtonTimes SENIOR LIVING

ORAL HISTORIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORIES

MANGANO LOSES LAW LICENSE

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ExteNet sues Flower Hill for denying nodes

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Board rejected 18 small cell devices BY J E S S I C A PA R K S ExteNet has sued the Village of Flower Hill over its decision to deny all 18 of the wireless infrastructure provider’s cell node applications. The Illinois-based company claims that Flower Hill refused to process ExteNet’s permits, implemented an illegal moratorium on cell node applications, used subjective and undefined aesthetic standards when reviewing ExteNet’s application and denied the application based on ExteNet’s failure to meet “phantom local requirements,” according to the lawsuit. The village board unanimously voted to deny ExteNet’s application to install cell nodes in the village’s right of ways last month primarily for ExteNet’s failure to specify the exact locations of the proposed cell nodes despite village requests for clarification. Verizon Wireless contracted

with ExteNet four years ago to install small cell devices in a number of Long Island communities to improve its 4G network. The Village of Lake Success in Great Neck is also the subject of a lawsuit from ExteNet for denying nine of 13 proposed cell nodes. ExteNet contends that Flower Hill’s determination that ExteNet had provided the board with a special permit application with conflicting plans and options instead of “specific alternate plans” is a “charade.” “Ignoring that ExteNet actually provided the Board with photographs and simulations of the three options for the decorative poles for it to choose from along with photographs and simulations of the PSE&G utility poles and small cell attachments,” the lawsuit said, “the findings erroneously state that ExteNet failed and refuse(d) to identify ‘site-specific infrastructure types’ for each proContinued on Page 69

PHOTO COURTESY OF DEBBIE GRECO

Port Washington’s Aneesha Mirza performing at Port’s Got Talent variety show on Saturday night, an annual event which benefits the Port Washington Adult Activities Center.

Man found with stockpile of ghost guns: police BY J ES S I C A PA R K S

that had their identifying serial numbers defaced. John Dejana, 47, was the A Port Washington man subject of a long-term investiwas arrested last Thursday af- gation by the FBI Long Island ter a police search of his prop- Joint Terrorism Task Force, acerty turned up 11 “ghost” guns cording to police.

Kevin Smith, first deputy commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department, said a total of 27 weapons were found in the Dejana residence, where the defendant lived with Continued on Page 69

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