Patchogue Hearing On Apartment Plan Conflicts With Alive After 5

PATCHOGUE, NY — Patchogue is poised for quite an important night — the popular Alive After Five festival is planned Thursday evening as well as a village planning board meeting on approving the construction of a luxury apartment complex at Mulford Street and West Avenue.

The planning board meeting will take place in the cafeteria at South Ocean Middle School instead of its usual Village Hall meeting room due to concerns that more space is needed for a large turnout, according to Carol Giglio, the Planning and Zoning Coordinator.

The application for the construction of the luxury apartment complex is the only issue on the agenda. Cornerstone developers will present on what the proposed site will look like.

The site is between the Watch Hill Ferry Terminal and The Oar Steak & Seafood Grille; with plans calling for majority of the units as 1-bedroom, with then six-2 bedroom and eight studio apartments," according to GreaterPatchouge.

Every unit will have a balcony and other proposed amenities include a rooftop club with fireplace and a fitness area.

After the developers present their proposal comments will then be taken from members of the public who have not yet spoken on the subject or on new subjects that were not covered last meeting.

The planning board warned that parking spaces will be extremely limited, due to the Alive After Five festival that will be going on at the same time, with the festival expecting its biggest turnout of the year. To boot, there is no air conditioning at the school.

The timing of the meeting taking place during the most popular festival of the year might seem like an odd one, but Giglio explained it was more the product of necessity than anything else.

"I scheduled the meeting six weeks ago. We also had a planning board meeting on Tuesday, and I had asked everyone to be here for the week. So I knew everybody would here this Thursday...it's hard to coordinate people during the summer time with vacations."

In the days after the meeting the planning board will at long last try to decide what recommendation it will make to the full Village Trustee Board over whether to grant a special permit allowing the project to move forward. The board will then hold a final vote on the matter.