Readers Write: Don’t vote in Dejana residences

The Island Now

It has been a long fight for residents throughout Port who have shown up by the hundreds at BZA and BOT meetings, written letters, signed petitions and spoken out overwhelmingly against the Manorhaven boards allowing the out-of-code Dejana apartments to be built and to forever open the door to changing the character and quality of life in Port.

The spirit and intent of preserving a historic seaside residential community and maintaining the future viability of Port would provably not be observed by the granting of these variances.

Rather, resident after resident objected that these significant out-of-code variances would do permanent harm to the community and be an injustice to its safety and welfare, it’s quality and way of life, and an affront to all the residents Manorhaven officials should serve. 

As residents chanted in unison at the BZA members, “build to code” and “abide by the code,” this resident fight has come down to one simple premise, the common good of all vs. what’s good for one. 

On Feb. 19, five BZA members will vote. Whose voice will these five people, all appointed by Mayor Avena, listen to — the thousands of residents who live here and call Port their home or the one builder who doesn’t and wants to profit from it?

The decent and honest and right choice is easy… living with the wrong one is not.

Lucretia Steele

Port Washington

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