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Vol. 2 No. 23 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, January 27, 1966
Residents Continue
Development Protest
Homeowners near the former " Hardwick Estate", residing
in both the Town of Oyster Bay and in the Village of Farming-dale,
continued this week to protest the size of the plots and
the number of houses on the recently proposed " Quaker
Estates" to be erected by the builder. Protests this week
also centered around drainage problems that might arise and
the increase in traffic that is expected by the opening up
of a dead end street.
A decision on a hearing that was held recently before the
Nassau County Planning Commission on the health, welfare
and safety of the residents affected, will be held up, it was
learned, until the Village of Farmingdale makes a final de­cision
on the builders' plans. The plans have been referred
back to the builder by the Planning Board of the Incorporated
Village of Farmingdale for adjustments. Following village
approval, a public hearing will be set and a date for the hear­ing
will be announced in the OBSERVER.
The 13.763 acres in question was annexed by the Incorpor­ated
Village of Farmingdale in 1960 from the Town of Oyster
Bay. Prior to its annexation the area was one acre zoned.
Under Village control, the zoning was established at 12,500
square feet. The residents in the adjoining area are protest­ing
on the basis that where 13 homes would have originally
been allowed, 33 homes are now permitted to be built on the
13.763 acres.
CD Officials Meet Here To Discuss ' Emergency Welfare Plan'
Joseph N. P. Grennan, Wel­fare
Officer for the Nassau
County Civil Defense Office, told
a meeting of local Civil Defense
directors at Village Hall, Farm­ingdale,
that the state and county
have devised an " Emergency
Welfare Plan" to provide for the
housing and feeding of people who
may be dislocated from their
home areas in the event of an
enemy nuclear attack or natural
disaster. He said that under the
plan, a survey program has been
initiated to determine the lodging
and feeding capacity of res­taurants,
motels, hotels, congre­gate
buildings, institutions, and
private homes in each " welfare
area."
" A Welfare Area, under the
state standard, is a local area
of approximately 10,000 resi­dents,"
Grennan pointed out. He
said the County Civil Defense
Office has subdivided Nassau
County into 146 Welfare Areas.
Those who attended included
Eugene Leyehdecker, Community
CD Director for Farmingdale;
Henry Brodbeck, CommunityCD
Director for Hicksville- Jericho;
Edward Callahan, CommunityCD
Director for Plainview; Kenneth
Beecher, Deputy CD Director
for Plainview; George Collins,
Acting Community Cd Director
for Massapequa; Charles Julig,
Deputy Nassau CD Director for
Zone 3; and Arthur Thompson,
Administrative CD Officer for
Zone 3.
Grennan asked the Community
CD Directors to set up Welfare
Services sections in their local
CD organizations to help work
up their community welfare
plans. He said that volunteers
in local communities will be
needed to survey the rooming
and feeding capacities of the
" Welfare Areas" that will come
under their jurisdiction.
For Office Building
on Merritt Rd and Cort PI
A petition for a change of
zoning from residential to
business for the erection of a two-story
office building on the north­west
corner of Merritt Road
and Cort Place, Farmingdale was
heard by the Town of Oyster Bay
Board on Tuesday at Town Hall.
The petitioner, Fams Homes In­corporated,
contended that there
was need for an office building
in that area. The proposed
building, on a 123 by 122 foot
plot, would be of colonial design
structure with parking in the rear
for 19 cars. The petitioner pre­sented
the names of 20 neighbors
to support his claim.
Members of the West Farming-dale
Civic Association and other
residents in the adjoining area,
sent letters to the Town Board
in opposition to the rezoning.
They contended that there was no
need for an office building in the
area and that the structure would
alter the character of the neigh­borhood
and that downzoning
would prove a hazard to the chil­dren.
The Town Board reserved de­cision.
5,000 To Register For
Spring Evening Classes
DUMPING ALLOWED: These giant melon slices of steel are being assembled to form a 35- foot diameter
sphere - a sophisticated " air dump** - at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Graduate Center in
Farmingdale. The sphere is essential for studying spacecraft reentry problems. Air gushing through
wind tunnels to fill the huge vacuum simulates the environment a space ship must endure reentering
the atmosphere. Communications and structural design problems will be investigated with this
" exhaust" system. The curved steel segments were moved from Polytechnic's now- closed aerospace
facility in Freeport. When operational early this spring, the sphere will connect with hypersonic
and supersonic wind tunnels in the college's new $ 1 million aerospace research laboratory, seen
in the background. Air flows ranging from three to 12 times the speed of sound will be possible.
More than 5,000 persons are
expected to register for spring
evening classes at State Uni­versity's
Agricultural and Tech­nical
College in Farmingdale.
Nearly 300 different courses
will be offered this term cover­ing
the areas of advertising,
agriculture, air conditioning, bi­ology,
business, chemistry, con-,
struction, electronics, and gen­eral
education.
Among 25 new courses to be
given for the first time are
marine invertebrate zoology,
cobol programming, English
for the foreign born, Latin, and
police planning and research.
Registration for evening clas­ses
will be held at the Farm­ingdale
campus on Thursday,
February 4, from 6 to 8: 30 p. m.
each day.