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July 15, 2016 | Vol. 4, Number 29 | www.mamaroneckreview.com
Despite gaps, commission submits LWRP update
THE SWEET SCIENCE
By JAMES PERO Staff Writer
Irish featherweight Carl Frampton poses with Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino at Champs Boxing Club in New Rochelle on July 12. Frampton is training at Champs in preparation of his July 30 WBA title fight against Leo Santa Cruz at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. For story, see page 15. Photo/Bobby Begun
Killian campaign secures Independence line By JAMES PERO Staff Writer Rye City Councilwoman Julie Killian’s campaign for the New York state Senate has received the backing of both the Independence and Conservative parties. Bill O’Reilly, Killian’s cam-
paign manager, said the endorsements will be crucial to the success of her campaign going forward. “It’s always helpful to have the extra party lines,” he said. Killian, who announced her Senate run in early March, has already been nominated by the Republican Party and will
also run on the Reform line, a minor party. While incumbent Sen. George Latimer, a Rye Democrat, has yet to announce his campaign for re-election, it is expected that both he and Killian—who announced her bid for a Senate seat in New York’s 37th District in March—will battle it out
in the fall. Latimer has served two consecutive terms as a New York state senator. According to Latimer, while the Independence endorsement carries weight in Westchester County—it is the county’s thirdlargest political party—it is far KILLIAN continued on page 8
A lengthy update process for the village of Mamaroneck’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, LWRP, may move forward, despite what some Harbor & Coastal Zone Management Commission members view as loose ends. While an updated LWRP, which was submitted by the harbor commission to the village Board of Trustees on June 29, will be reviewed by board members and sent to the New York State Department of State, DOS, for approval according to Cindy Goldstein, chairwoman of the village harbor coastal commission, there are still “open items” that the commission wishes to clear up. Among the open items is what Goldstein described as field work that would evaluate natural resources in the village. “It would be helpful for [the commission] to identify what’s actually out there in resources and natural habitat,” she said, adding that since the original draft of the LWRP from 1984, the village’s landscapes and geography have probably changed. While the draft may be completed, updating the LWRP has not been an expedient process. The move to update the LWRP was mandated by New York state in 2014, but was stalled
after a debate erupted over which village entity would review the document. Both the harbor coastal commission and the village Board of Trustees battled over responsibility for updating the document. Commission members— who felt that proposed changes from a village consultant would usurp much of the harbor coastal commission’s authority—fought to regain control of the process, however. Eventually, the harbor commission won the right to oversee the document’s revision with a team of volunteers. The process of updating the village’s LWRP, according to a memo from the harbor coastal commission, was designed to address “significant new challenges which impact the management of the coastal zone.” “We’re continuing to suffer from development upstream,” Goldstein said, “because water doesn’t respect our borders.” Specifically, she explained, development in municipalities upstream from the Mamaroneck and Sheldrake rivers—like White Plains—have contributed to poor water quality issues as well as increased flooding in Mamaroneck. Additions to the most recently drafted LWRP—which lists a series of stipulations for LWRP continued on page 7