The New Hyde Park village board will have a public hearing on Jan. 16 to discuss a proposed Harley-Davidson dealership.
The board meeting regularly scheduled for that night has been moved to Jan. 18 to give the board’s sole attention to the Harley-Davidson scoping hearing, Mayor Montreuil said during Tuesday’s board meeting.
The applicant’s Scoping Document is available for residents to view on the village website.
“If you have some concerns that you say, ‘Hey I think the scope needs to be broader I think they’re not including everything that’s a concern to me,’ [Jan. 16] is your opportunity to enter your concerns onto the record,” Montreuil said.
New Hyde Park hired a Hauppague-based engineering firm, Cashin Spinelli & Ferretti, at the end of 2016 to evaluate the findings of a study supporting a proposal for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership.
The hiring came almost three months after applicant Amir Jarrah submitted his study of noise, traffic, safety and other concerns near the site of the proposed dealership at 1324 Jericho Turnpike, which met strong community opposition last year.
Jarrah wants to move his Harley-Davidson dealership from Northern Boulevard in Great Neck to a new 16,000-square-foot facility proposed at the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Herkomer Street, the current home of Miller Brothers Plumbing & Heating.
Village residents raised concerns about noise, traffic, safety and other quality of life issues at an October 2015 public hearing on the plan. The board required Jarrah to commission a study of how his dealership would affect the community.
During the meeting Deputy Mayor Donna Squicciarino also announced that the new village website will hopefully be up by Jan. 10.
Squicciarino said the data from the old website is currently being transferred onto the new site.
Montreuil thanked former Mayor Robert Lafaro for his work “bringing New Hyde Park into the virtual space.”
“Bob took the initiative a long time ago when it became evident the everyone’s going to need a web address,” Montreuil said. “And it’s a great form for getting out information.”
The new website, Montreuil said, is going to build on the foundation Lafaro provided.
