Now that another city Board of Standards and Appeals hearing is nearing, opposition is mounting again against plans by the Indian Cultural and Community Center to break ground in Bellerose to construct a four-story building on the site of the Creedmoor Psychiatric facility campus.
The group originally convinced lawmakers to sell the parcel to build a community center.
It soon changed plans, proposing to build two nine-story buildings instead of the original one-story community center and athletic field.
The new development plans irked the community, and the ICCC again changed its mind and argued in favor of building the two structures, but keeping them to only six stories..
The fourth and latest idea shrank to the one-building with a recreational center on the roof.
“We are not against the ICCC if they build what they said they would,” said Jerry Wind, president of the Bellerose Hillside Civic Association. “The latest incarnation of the plan is this one building.”
Community leaders, in collaboration with state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), are asking the city Board of Standards and Appeals to deny the variance needed for the ICCC to develop the site at 82nd Avenue and 242ns Street.The BSA was scheduled to hold a hearing on the fourth revised proposal Nov. 25.
“I hope the board reviews the latest proposal and looks at how they got here,” Avella said. The ICCC “didn’t get here with unclean hands.”
1 comment:
Even at 9 stories it would have been shorter than the creedmoor tower.
Nothing that big should be so far from transit though. Wait for the city to extend the F further east before building anything like that.
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