Town Board meeting wrap-up

COSTCO gets its gas pumps

Destination Retail Center zoning now allows for the construction of warehouse or wholesale clubs with gas pumps as an accessory use. The Town Board Tuesday night adopted a change to the zoning code to permit the new primary and accessory uses, which will allow for the construction of a COSTCO on Route 58. The provision for fueling facilities requires that they be no closer than 500 feet from an adjacent residential use.

Assisted living coming to Mill Road?

Riverhead is moving forward with an sewage treatment engineering study in connection with Genrac Associates’ plan to build an assisted living residential complex on Mill Road, just north of Home Depot. The $22,500 study has been funded by the developer, which seeks to build 105 homes, 50 apartments and 12 assisted living units, plus a clubhouse, on the 22-acre site. The project will require hook up to the town’s sewage treatment plant in order to gain approval.

Before the project can be approved, however, the Town Board will have to finalize a special “floating zone” it’s been working on.

Community center will be fit for kids by July 6

The George Young Community Center will be reopened in time for first day of the summer camp July 6. Mold remediation is running ahead of schedule, according to the supervisor’s assistant David Cullen. The company doing the mold remediation has offered to add two more rooms to its job spec for an additional $5,000. 

Councilwoman Giglio cast the lone dissenting vote on the resolution authorizing a change order to the contract with the Middle Island-based DuraClean. Giglio had complained about the way in which the original $25,000 contract with DuraClean, as well as a similar $22,000 contract with Serv-Pro of Northeast Queens, for mold remediation in Town Hall, were awarded without being put out to bid. The mold conditions resulted from the March nor’easters that caused flooding in both buildings. Giglio said the town failed to act quickly enough to allow time follow a proper bidding process. She suggested that the family relationship between one of the contractors, Serv-Pro, and ZBA member Charles Sclafani, whose wife is the supervisor’s secretary, played a role in the contract award. Both Sclafani and the supervisor denied the allegations. 

Feeding the birds will cost you

A proposed local law that would ban feeding waterfowl and impose mandatory fines for the unlawful act was set for a June 24 public hearing by the board. Adopting such a plan is a condition of the town’s stormwater management plan required by the state DEC.