The Town of North Hempstead has made avaialbe the “Main Street Visioning” public meeting hosted by North Hempstead's Supervisor Jon Kaiman and Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio at Schreiber High School on Sept. 20.
To see the video, visit the town's Portal 2 Port site, where 97 minutes of the meeting is posted online.
Update: A North Hempstead spokesman explained the length of the video, saying, that there was technical issue and it allowed for roughly 97 minutes of the public meeting to be recorded.
Thanks, "Rs" for blocking the incinerator, now don't mind if we block the re-zoning.
it was very sad, and unprofessional of the town to put this side show on. its not the Community thats scared its the building owners, and the Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington.
Correct I watsed my time coming to a poorly run meeting which did not present anything worth while. Much of the neded information which I had hoped would have been covered was neglected. Jon Kaiman has a great ability to try to avoid major issues which residents need to knowm from the start of the proposal. This should have no bearing on whether this is the first step or after numerous meetings. If you viewed the video of the meeting it will come as no surprise that the ToNH can not even get a decent video put together. Someone else should design and run another more informaqtive meeting with a great presentation with the proper individuals from every concerned agency in attendance
Only good thing is he might be out of ToNH politics.
It really does not make a difference the portion on the internet is almost inaudible and the picture quality orlack of it makes me eyes hurt. I really did not expect any better especially after the dissapointing no presentation meeting
Also, I agree that a good start would be tearing down the Shield's building. Seems so simple to do... and you don't need approvals to do it. What are they waiting for? Rat infestation?
Rezone Main Street seems to sound very odd to me because we already have commercial/residential buildings as acknowledged at the rezoning meeting. If there presently a height restriction for buildings then how did the four floor "Standards" building and the building which houses the Dolphin Book Store get approval and permits? What are we rezoning? Could this mean we can leave things rhwe way they are? It's too bad I did not realize this prior to addressing the ToNH panel at the rezoning meeting.
Main Street has the 4 story "Standards" building, The residential/Commercial use building housing the Dolphin Book Store and an apartment building across from the town dock (near Louies) and countless commercial residential buildings. From what I can see only the apartment building across from the dock supplies parking for tenants. So how did this all come about?
If I am correct the commercial/residential building housing the Dolphin Book Store has an underground parking entering from the rear. I thought underground parking was not going to be an option in the rezoning proposal?
The question was asked of Mr. Kaiman, what is the status of the Shield's building? He went through the process that included the agreement the ToNH has with the current Owner and the environmental studies that have been performed. But he never actually answered the question, "what is the status of the Shield's Building"? The question I have is why did the ToNH agree the purchase the building in the first place? Why not take the $850k and use those funds to "beautify Main Street". Why is the current owner of the Shield's Property not being held responsible for the condition of the property. No one can look at that building and say it is a safe structure. It seems that the majority in Port Washington feel that this property in an eyesore and that the ToNH should do (or force the owner to do) something about it. For some reason, the ToNH is taking a very weak position with regards to this property, and has done so for many years. Instead, they try to force the unpopular rezoning of Main Street onto the community while leaving the worst eyesore in Port still standing.
There were very pointed comments at the beginning and the ending of the meeting that are not included in the video. The video that has been posted makes it appear that the meeting started with the ToNH actually describing in detail what Main Street Visioning was about. It also appears that the meeting ended on a somewhat positive note. Both are not accurate. This furthers the mistrust the local community has for its local government when it comes to Main Street.
I tried to explain this when I stood and spoke out at the rezoning meeting. The point I made was that we the residents are not getting the full picture. Missing were the possible(key word) intentions of not building renters or store owners, but rather the building owners. Of course we would not get a very accurate number but at least we might have some idea what could happen. The results might speak very loudly. Should several owners think rebuilding and expanding the height of their building was a possibility then we would have to look at everything associated with those intentions. My concern was can the basic services now in place handle or be expanded to handle an increase in buisiness and residential numbers. The panel did not feel that it was the time to discuss this as this was a proposal in the infancy. My thought is that is the best tiome to place as many facts, possibilities and every type of associated issue on the table. This has to do with transparency. Once the proposal is a go it would take a lot to correct faults which should have been considered long ago. Heres a clincher, Governor Cuomo has three candiates in mind to take charge of LIPA and one is Jon Kaiman!