Yaphank Taxpayer & Civic Association

STOP LEVY’S
“LUNACY VILLAGE”
URGENT ACTION REQUIRED

Please sign our on-line petition to the Suffolk County Legislature. It is critical that the voice of all Suffolk County citizens is heard by our Legislator’s. They must IMMEDIATELY and PERMANENTLY, with urgency, HALT the sale of the currently designated “Legacy Village” taxpayer-owned County property, as surplus. The Legislature must vote against IR #: 1922-2009. We must not allow Steve Levy to sell our land.

http://www.petitiononline.com/Lunacy/

County Executive Steve Levy has requested that the County Legislature approve a resolution that would declare 250 acres of county-owned land in Yaphank within the Carmans River Watershed as surplus and transfer that land to private developers for the proposed Legacy Village project. We, the residents of Yaphank refer to this large-scale destination center with an affordable housing component, “LUNACY VILLAGE”!

This proposed mixed-use project will encompass up to 250 acres to be built along both sides of Yaphank Road between the Long Island Expressway and Sunrise Highway:

  • Land on the east side of Yaphank Avenue, just north of the Board of Elections and continuing to the Long Island Expressway is a proposal to construct a 5,500-seat indoor arena, a 5,000 seat outdoor arena and track, a 90-room hotel, four restaurants, 25,000 square feet of retail space, 50,000 square feet of office space and a 95-acre high-technology, light industry business incubator, and a 4-megawatt solar power generation plant.
  • Land on the west side of Yaphank Avenue, behind Suffolk County Police Headquarters, County Farmland and the Mastic Soccer Club is a proposal that includes 1,000 one and two-bedroom housing units; 785 “workforce” housing units and 215 market-rate units with accessory apartments. 

 

This will double the population of Yaphank overnight!

This proposal ignores that fact that there are thousands of homes for sale throughout the area.

This proposal ignores the fact that there are countless acres of movie theaters, car dealerships, Home Depot, Kmart, strip malls, offices, stores and other infrastructure lying vacant everywhere.


All of this would be built on the CARMANS RIVER WATERSHED, a critical ecosystem that must be protected. Steve Levy has proposed a “death sentence” to the Carmans River and it is inconceivable that a government-based effort is underway to give away our “PUBLIC WATERSHED LAND”.  Levy’s “Lunacy Village” will turn our non-destination Historic Hamlet into a mega-city on the Carmans River. This will irreversibly damage the quality of the Carmans River Watershed and negatively impact the quality of life for surrounding communities. It is ill-conceived and threatens to undo all that has been done to protect and preserve the Carmans River and surrounding Watershed. Now is the time for the citizens of Suffolk County to STOP LEVY’S “LUNACY VILLAGE.”


THE RESIDENTS OF SUFFOLK COUNTY HAVE INVESTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO PROTECT THE CARMANS RIVER AND THE SURROUNDING WATERSHED.

Please get involved and let your voice be heard! What you can do:

 

  • Sign our on-line petition

  • Call, Write, or Email ALL 18 Suffolk County Legislators and tell them to oppose this project.

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for a list of ALL 18 Suffolk County Legislators