Huntington Town Notebook: Traffic Calming Study for Woodbury Road, Pilot Parking Program at Woodbine Marina

It’s been a busy month for the Town of Huntington, which passed a number of measures at its Aug. 19 town council meeting.

Among those measures, the town:

• approved retaining Gibbons, Esposito & Boyce of Uniondale to conduct a traffic calming study and to develop recommendations for Woodbury Road. The $24,818.52 study had been planned for next year, but the timetable was accelerated in light of community concern about some recent accidents on the road.
• authorized a $25,900 contract with H2M Architects + Engineers for professional engineering services to determine the remaining unused capacity in the Huntington Sewer district and to evaluate potential methods to allow an increase in flow beyond the current permit capacity.
• authorized as a pilot program a change in the parking regulations at the Woodbine Marina from May 25 to September 7, 2015 to set aside a limited number of spaces at the marina for public parking while still providing sufficient spaces required for marina slip holders.
• authorized the Town Attorney to begin a civil action against a company, Crown Castle NG East LLC, that has installed and maintained cellular telephone-related equipment along utility poles in the town’s rights-of-way without Town Board approval.
• appropriated up to $35,000 from the EOSPA Green Project Fund to install 248 energy efficient induction lighting fixtures at the North Parking Garage at the Huntington Long Island Rail Road station.
• approved appropriating $150,000 from the Parks & Recreation Capital Improvement Reserve for resurfacing athletic courts in various Town parks.
• scheduled Sept. 16 a public hearing on a proposal to streamline the process for considering applications to alter properties that are historic or in historic districts. Under the proposed changes, in limited, defined situations where no significant impact on the historic district or site is expected to occur, the Historic Preservation Commission could issue the certificate of approval without the Town Board holding a public hearing. A second change would apply to historic properties deemed blighted.