AvalonBayll facts a little......

There are 5 members of the RVC Board of Appeals. I hope they and some of the RVC staff of 100 s do a little research on their own about this application.

I understand that developers and their lawyers and the Nassau County Planning Commissioner are all in favor of this project. To me their answers are general but specific when they say they wanted to be treated like other towns,like Great Neck. They quote stories and specifics out of the air like it’s gospel. These guys have impressive resumes and great qualifications. I am not an expert. I do voice my opinion on BZA issues around town. I’m sure that I have misstated some facts over time. I try to get to the source of the information. I have a natural concern and curiosity for what happens in our Village.

I am for multifamily development in RVC. If AvalonBayll wants to keep our children here on Long Island go at, get a variance from the allowable 18 units density code and build 36 studios.

The density code was passed in October 2007. When this came up on the TV the lawyer acted like this was a past personal attack against him. This is the same lawyer that sued the RVC Planning board to override their decision on the first AvalonBay. In my opinion this code was passed to protect the village from getting sued. The Density code was passed because we did not have a density restriction and the Board wanted to keep our town a village. This is dramatically different from our mayor , who wants to be running ”A Mini Manhattan” a city not a village.

I love to watch the cadre of lawyers and experts who represent AvalonBayll on Channel 18. The whole gist of these hearings are to get the developer to justify why they should be granted a Gargantuan Variance. They present lots of data and the BZA asks questions about the data. I believe when the data is compiled and read from reports by the experts there’s a lot of good data presented . They tried to compare RVC to Great Neck. They should have picked another village.

Great Neck (GN) is more restrictive in the Apartment District than the RVC Multifamily districts

RVC max lot coverage is 40% GN max lot coverage is 35%

RVC Density is 18 per acre. GN density is calculated by dividing the lot area 35% coverage by ratio of 1000 square feet per family. The hieght restriction is 31

So if the AvalonBayll tried to build the project in GN they wold only be allowed be to build 32 units in total.

Both the lawyer and the commissioner said that since RVC is close to transit we should have more multifamily units.

To Board member Kelly’s credit he said we as a village have a lot of multifamily.

Yes, we have one of the highest ratio of single family units/to multifamily.

RVC 1.5 to 1 and GN 3 to 1. Somebody at AvalonBayll better start doing better research comparisons.