[CPEO-IRF] Stratford (CT) and Glen Cove (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developer fighting battles on 2 fronts

RICHARD WEIZEL
Connecticut Post
April 8, 2007

STRATFORD - U.S. Army officials, their patience exhausted after waiting 
11 years for plans to advance, have made it clear: They do not want Team 
Stratford and its new management group, Monti-Posillico of New York, to 
redevelop the sprawling former Army Engine plant on Main Street.

But Donald Monti, the management group's new leader, has more than one 
fight on his hands.

In Glen Cove, N.Y., a small city of 26,000 on Long Island, residents and 
officials are sharply divided over plans for a major waterfront 
development project at a former military munitions site — a debate that 
is reminiscent of what's happening in Stratford.

The Long Island project, however, has advanced further, with a signed 
contract between Monti-Posillico and the city and partial cleanup of the 
contaminated 50-acre site. Controversy on Long Island

The Glen Isle project would be a multi-use development that includes 
more than 1,110 housing units. Opponents, however, contend the 
ever-changing plan, which originally proposed 590 housing units, will 
damage the environment, clog local roads and bring in too many new 
residents, placing a heavy burden on the school system, police and 
volunteer fire department.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5621645

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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