Readers Write: Raise your hand if you read all 237 pages of VGN mayor’s revitalization plan

The Island Now

The devil is in the details.  Buried deep within 237 pages in Tables that are often too small to read and critical Footnotes that many ignore is the stuff you need to see for yourself.

If you haven’t read it — all of it — please do not criticize the 1 percent of residents who have and therefore can make a sound evaluation and critical assessment. 

What the mayor and board do not want you to know is as follows: The current version of the mayor’s revitalization plan gives the mayor and his silent board virtually unlimited, unprecedented power to bring any type of business activity he wants as long as it is characterized as an incentive. That’s what Great Neck residents, mayors and community leaders need to know.

In one example, it was discovered that construction of Millbrook Court is slated for April 2019.  One hundred new apartments will be added — though oddly enough — the mayor and his deputy mayor argued against this fact at the recent public hearing on March 5. 

Amy Glass jumped to her feet when she heard what she recognized as false information coming from the dais. Every resident is entitled to know what is taking place, for fact, in their own community.  The Millbrook Court information is posted in Table 19 of the Draft Generic Environmental Study, line 15, plus Footnote 6 (page 105 of PDF document).  

Keep in mind, the above is but one example.  Like I said, the devil is in the details.  And this mayor and this board are counting on residents not taking the time or possessing the skill set to read — and read thoroughly — what they have envisioned for our future.

A Thomaston resident and engineer shared these remarks when I requested that he read the 200+ pages of Environmental Impact Study plus 107 pages of the actual VHB plan, he said, “It will take several attorneys, multiple architects and multiple engineers to decipher this information.”  

I ask you, does the average Great Neck resident stand a chance in deciphering what the heck is going on in his own community?  You be the judge.

Judy Rosenthal

Great Neck

 

 

 

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