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STOP AVALONBAY II

NOTICE ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS ASSIGNED TO HEAR AVALONBAY ll APPLICATION 177 units where only 38 units are allowed

Here we go again the most pro Mayor in 60 years to multifamily developers of open space and shrinking our residential single family neighborhoods. One of the first act in 2012 was to introduce a custom law to change one property 62 Rockaway from residential to multifamily zone so one developer could build multifamily housing. After 200 people came to the hearing the Mayor with no explanation let the laws die. In a village of 6000 residential houses in a 2.5 square mile space with 25,000 residents and no rezoning since the previous Murray administration, that rezoned to allowed Avalon Bay. The Mayor and the board pick up the same law for the same speculative flipping developer. The Village law comes from the Mayor. He decides if 62 Rockaway needs Village legislative relief, why. Does this speculating developer need help? Anyway the list is long and now every developer in NYS knows our village is open for multifamily develop and speculative house flipping like 31 Davidson, Centennial Park in the Mill River area, Morrissey car dealership, Karp car dealership, the Hess station, parking at Bonehead and the several other pro-business projects in the works. It never stops with this crowd. Now the LI Herald reports the multifamily developer AvalonBay bought the RVC racquet club. The same guy Matt Whelan that worked the other AvalonBay deal with the village, says RVC needs ANOTHER 349 multifamily units. This man gets to tell the residents what we need. This resident says to this administration I expect you to reject this project and the 62 Rockaway project out. It’s enough that the BZA can make the 54 car Bonehead zoning parking requirements disappear by saying the code does not apply during the day. It only works at night. The expert said that the lots are now filled to capacity. Tell me what is going to happen when you throw 187 Bonehead customers cars into the search for one of the 240 spaces where only 190 have more than one hour time limits WHO will you hold responsible We need an administration that is not afraid to stand up to multibillion dollar businesses. There were zoning laws enacted in 2007 to protect the residents from this type of AvalonBay community changing activity of adding another 800 people. Everyone in the Village needs to watch this Mayor, his Planning Board and his Board of Zoning appeal (BZA). The law is the law and all I ask is that this Mayor must defend it and honor the residents who elected him. If the Village follows the code there will be some apartments built BUT NOT 349.

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