A multi family apartment complex is being proposed for a piece of property that is within the area encompased by , according to a public notice on the corner of Texaco Avenue and Linden Place.
at for people to express their support or concerns about the application by Rail Realty, LLC to build a multi-family apartment complex.
At an April 19 planning board meeting Eric Russo, identified in the meeting minutes as the attorney for Rail Realty, LLC and Eric Nicosia, the company's architect submitted an application for the site.
A PDF of the April 19 planning board meeting is available from the village's official website here.
The project was described at the time as a four-story, 87-unit apartment complex with below ground and first floor parking located on the northeast corner of Linden Place and Texaco Avenue and the south side of Linden Place
"Mr. Russo presented the proposed project for (12) two bedroom and (18) one bedroom apartment complex," the minutes read. "The applicant is anxious to proceed."
The notes also say that the planning board and staff were sending comments to the applicant’s representative.
Residents seem split on the application. An area business owner who contacted Patch about the notice supported the application saying she would be at the hearing and hoped this was the beginning of the planned revitalization of the area.
Another reader emailed Patch to express her concerns.
"Isn't there enough traffic?" said the reader who did not identify herself. "On most afternoons the traffic is backed up a fair distance up Sheep Pasture Road. Must we develop every vacant lot in the village?"
The company submitting the application is located at 414 Main Street in Port Jefferson according to the notice.
The area simply could not support that influx of people....Traffic between the RR tracks and North Country is bad enough, one can only imagine what that would become if a project of this mammoth size was built... What is the target?...Are these apartments to be Section 8 or an equivalent gov subsidized program?.... What will be the parking spot allocation?...eg. how many spaces per apt unit?....there is virtually no parking uptown and adding apt residents or apt resident visitors would absolutely kill the remaining businesses who share the few on street parking spaces available.... This COULD be a great beginning to the revitalization of Upper Port, IF (and that's a BIG "IF") it is scaled to fit in the area without totally overloading it... IF this is to be a low-income/subsidized complex, might as well scrap all the "pretty" plans that have been drawn over the years...It will become a Dodson's Northwest... This should be a very interesting meeting.....
I understand what you are saying, BUT, there's a big difference between the boarded up area (Port Jeff STATION/Brookhaven) and the "gentlemen's" area (north of the tracks...Port Jeff VILLAGE)...SCPD would rather set up motorist traps in that area (reggies/inspect/seatbelts/cel phone) than work to eliminate those guys...(there is NO MONEY in busting those gentlemen, but every ticket fetches a nice fine and surcharge for the town...and MONEY is what it's all about).....Even the MTA police set up their motorist traps, instead of policing the train station, which has had so many problems with crime of late that PJ Code was actually greeting trains to insure drivers got to their cars sans incident...
Time to stop paying for Revitalization Plans and DO SOMETHING POSITIVE uptown
This could actually be the REAL (eg. Not just more paper plans!) beginning to the revitalization of Upper Port!... Keeping my fingers crossed!!!
I think Long Island needs more centralized development like this, with centralized down towns where people can walk from place to place without having to drive through heavy traffic for a half hour.