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Friday, november 21, 2014
vol. 2, no. 47
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Apartments proposed at Mt. olive site Developer requests zoning change for senior residences BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO A developer seeking to convert more than three acres of the shuttered Mt. Olive Baptist Church property in Manhasset into a 72unit housing complex has requested a change in the site’s zoning to market the proposed apartments strictly to senior tenants. Representatives with G&G Acquisitions Group, LLC, which has an office in Jericho, presented plans before the North Hempstead Town Council on Tuesday that would rid the 3.19-acre property along Community Drive of various contaminants that have deemed it a “brownfield” site by state environmental agencies to allow for the construction of the apartments. The town council tabled a vote on the proposed zoning change until after a future public hearing that it did not schedule on Tuesday.
Public comments submitted in writing will be accepted through the end of the month, officials said. Linda Shaw, a partner with the environmental law firm Knauf Shaw LLP, said the property’s condition – contaminated with metals lead and arsenic, among other undisclosed toxins – exceed the requirements needed to qualify for the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program. The program provides conditional tax incentives in exchange for the remediation and subsequent redevelopment of brownfield sites. The site, she said, has become contaminated with metals like lead and arsenic as well as other undisclosed toxins due in part to occasional illegal dumping there. An Environmental Impact Statement has been drafted for the project. The church, which currently owns the site, has a tax exemption Continued on Page 48
PHOTO BY BILL SAN ANTONIO
Aerial nurses and other personnel remove a stretcher from the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s new SkyHealth helicopter, which was unveiled during a press event on Thursday.
Health system unveils new ambulatory helicopter, pad BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO The North Shore-LIJ Health System introduced its new ambulatory helicopter service on Thursday, an initiative that officials said would provide for
a quicker transport of patients to hospitals throughout the Downstate area. During a press conference at North Shore University Hospital, officials said the helicopter would be equipped similarly to an intensive care unit
and travel an average of 130 miles per hour, allowing travel from Southside Hospital in Bay Shore to the health system’s helipad atop the Manhasset medical center in less than 10 minutes. Continued on Page 48
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