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Act Now!
Call or email the Town of Smithtown Planning Board.
​Public Comments Close Friday, January 24 at 5pm
Why? Your community's future is at stake
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Development of  Gyrodyne's Flowerfield Property Will Permanently Alter Our Community.

Here's how to make SURE Your voice IS heard.

​BACKGROUND:

The Gyrodyne real estate company is seeking Town of Smithtown's approval to subdivide Flowerfield, the 68-acre former horticultural site it owns in St James. The site is on Historic 25A (North Country Road) between Mills Pond Road and Stony Brook Road. The proposed 9-lot subdivision calls for construction of:
  • 150 room hotel
  • 125,00 square feet of medical office space
  • 220-bed assisted living facility
  • 7-acre regional sewage plant

​This commercial development will reverse decades of carefully-researched policy recommendations by planners, officials, environmental advocates & civic leaders and open the door to similar development along historic Route 25A. If Smithtown permits, Gyrodyne will TRANSFORM our community’s look and character:
  • Increase traffic congestion on over-burdened historic 25A & side roads.
  • Send more traffic onto Stony Brook Road, already used by 22,000+ vehicles daily.
  • Open University Heights Drive feeding onto Stony Brook Road.
  • Stick Brookhaven taxpayers with paying for infrastructure upgrades, road maintenance, quality of life and safety concerns (emergency service vehicles, etc).
  • Create expansive 7-acre regional sewage treatment plant designed to service future high-density development along 25A.
  • Subject groundwater flowing into Stony Brook Harbor with nitrogen-laden waste water and toxins such as Methyl Bromide* & Lead Arsenic*, fouling swimming, fishing, boating & other recreational uses. 
  • Destroy our community’s historic rural character (see Jericho Turnpike)
  • Ignore traffic & environmental impact of Stony Brook University growth plans & other envisioned planned projects
  • Lower property values in our area, causing “family flight”
  • Trigger developer demand for light-industrial “Me-Too” projects on remaining farmland, nurseries etc along 25A corridor.

* Use of these toxins at Flowerfield has been documented. Cleanup has not been documented. 

SAY NO TO GYRODYNE! Join your neighbors & civic leaders from Smithtown, St. James, Nesconset, Head of the Harbor, Stony Brook, Nissequogue & East Setauket.
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The time to SPEAK OUT is now!

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