On East 5th Street, Huntington Station
A large swarth of roadside land on East 5th Street in Huntington Station–site of the highly controversial Avalon Bay Community–is in the early stages of being cleared. Bulldozers and other heavy equipment is on the site. Several mature trees have already been knocked down.
Town of Huntington (TOH) spokesperson A.J. Carter, says that the original site development plan filed with the Town Planning Board allows the contractor to clear the land in preparation for construction.
Some of the work, he says, includes a soil management plan that removes pesticides that were “dumped on the property” during the time that it might have been used as farmland. The remediation involves the removal of “from one to four feet of top soil.” The permits allow the elimination of as much as 165,000 cubic yards of dirt for future burial beneath a pond that is slated to be constructed on the site.
Even though the Town has not approved Avalon Bay’s site plan, the developer’s agreement with the Planning Board allows them to clear the property at their own risk. If the site plan is ultimately disapproved, the developer will have incurred the costs without recompense.
Carter provided Village Tattler with an electronic copy of the Town’s Resolution authorizing the land clearing but it was received as a corrupted file. We will upload it and attach it to this story as soon as a cleaner copy is received.
Ironic that the file was corrupted!!
If not approved, will the developer make the land whole again and replant the trees?
Now the people who live next to this are breathing in arsenic.
You can’t get more stupid than this.
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I can’t wait to see some development in this area.
The wacko shill Kim DAmberiso from Highview.
Where ya been?
Lockdown?
aka HS Resident.
Props to da Station! I was wishing for a 3rd rail.
Will anybody really want to live there???? I think not
If any indication of how well the ‘revitalization’ of HS is going, look at the spankin new Pawn Shop were the beautiful park area is supposed to be along with the new $60,000 statue on order. I’m going to love to see the photo of the Town board members cutting the ribbon with the Pawn Shop sign in the background!
HAs anyone seen the proposed site plan?