Port Washington is one of the few remaining areas with any public waterfront left and a natural beauty that is in and of itself a mandate to preserve.
Importantly, the entire peninsula must be considered as a whole in this preservation. And what happens in one Port Village to its waterfront affects all of Ports waterfront preservation
The current fight for the waterfront and adjacent waterfront in Manorhaven is clear proof of this:
Residents have fought diligently to try to stop a few multimillionaire Builders like Peter Dejana from erecting massive, well beyond code height and density buildings, on over 50 percent of Manhassett Isle – much of it waterfront property and adjacent waterfront and creating massive overcrowding throughout Port.
This massive building will impact all Port, and the fight to stop this should be all of Ports.
Sadly, Manorhaven’s Mayor Avena and his Boards have turned a deaf ear and blind eye to resident’s demands for:
- public hearings,
2. adherence to existing building codes
3. a comprehensive plan for preserving the waterfront and village character 4)a study of how massive development will affect 7000 residents, further overcrowding, infrastructure and surrounding areas.
Not one trustee or BZA member has spoken up to defend residents rights or preservation of the waterfront and villages seaside character. Instead at every public meetings and in the press they only tout “ balancing the rights of big property owners” ..none of whom live here.
That a handful of local politicians – a Builders Board – can forever ruin a waterfront community and its way of life and destroy an areas irreplaceable God-given natural beauty is a despicable crime against our current way of life but also against the future of all of Port peninsula.
The importance of including and considering Port as a whole, joining all villages together in this mandate and the involvement of all Port civic groups as a whole as well as holding all local officials responsible in the fight to preserve Port is the first order of business.
A community divided cannot maintain the whole. The residents of all Port as well as Residents Forward need to take notice of what is happening in Manorhaven – that will be the blueprint for all of Port
Lucretia Steele
Port Washington
