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.
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.
Development of Gyrodyne's Flowerfield Property Will Permanently Alter Our Community.
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.
SAY NO TO GYRODYNE! Join your neighbors & civic leaders from Smithtown, St. James, Nesconset, Head of the Harbor, Stony Brook, Nissequogue & East Setauket.
The time to SPEAK OUT is now!
