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Riverhead Town will not be selling one-day or seasonal beach passes to nonresidents this year, a practice it discontinued last year when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, according to Supervisor Yvette Aguiar. But the Town Board still must decide if it plans to issue beach passes to hotels and lodgings for use by their guests.  A one-day nonresident pass  had cost $35, according to parks and recreation superintendent Ray Coyne, while the annual nonresident permit was $200.  The board discussed hotel/motel permits at its work session last Thursday.  “This is something that in the past has be...

This month, in  Gershow Recycling of Riverhead v Town of Riverhead, 2021 NY Slip Op 02156 [2d Dept 2021], the Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed the motion court’s decision granting an Article 78 petition to annul the denial of a site plan amendment application. The motion court and the appeals court held the denial exceeded the scope of delegable power under the then-applicable Town Code and In November 20211, the petitioners-plaintiffs (“Petitioners”) purchased property upon which the prior owner operated an auto salvage facility. The auto salvage use constituted a pre-...

The beach at Bootleggers Alley on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 2020. (Credit: Don Bindler) What’s a beach? Most would answer the question simply as a place where you swim. But as the Shoreline Access Task Force is discovering, it’s not that easy. For an Island surrounded by water with multiple access areas to shorelines where families have been swimming for generations, the Town Code defines beach as a site where lifeguards are assigned and bathrooms are provided. That means only Crescent and Wades are considered beaches. Before discussing specific water access po...

Occoquan mulls delaying public hearing for 7-story housing development A rendering of the "Mill at Occoquan" presented in 2019. Occoquan aims to postpone a public hearing on a project to bring a seven-story housing development to the riverside. The hearing at been planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, at Town Hall, 314 Mill Street. The town did not say when the public hearing would be rescheduled. It did note that the developer, Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Investments would like  the public hearing delayed as it works to respond to multiple questions about the project it received from t...

Brookhaven Town Councilman Michael Loguercio at 1465 Montauk Highway in North Bellport for the demolition of two abandoned and boarded up buildings. Photo: Brookhaven Town. Zombie buildings are a dangerous nuisance on Long Island. Properties essentially abandoned by their owners become eyesores in their communities after years of neglect - racking up building code violations and sometimes attracting vagrants who set up camp sometimes with damaging results.   On Tuesday, February 9, the Town of Brookhaven demolished two abandoned and boarded up buildings that were in violation of numerous ...