Joann and Armin Olivieri, with son Matthew, want new entrance markers for their development
We are homeowners in the South Setauket Park development in South Setauket. For the past four years, the homeowner’s association has been trying to replace four unkempt, dilapidated brick walls at both entrances. The lack of progress has to do solely with the Town of Brookhaven.
After four years, “lack of progress” is an understatement, but after talking to town officials and the South Setauket Park Homeowners’ Association, we don’t think the blame rests solely with the town. Delays came with changed plans and personnel. A lot of time is still spent waiting for a consensus from the volunteer advisory board which makes decisions involving the 671 homes within the special park district that will pay for the new markers.
Delays and politics aside, here's where the project stands:
Town spokesman Tom Burke said three things need to be done to move the project forward: The board must approve final specifications for the design and the project has to be put out for bid. Most important, owners of four homes where the walls will go must sign easement agreements after a surveyor marks the areas.
Marie Berkoski, the town’s special districts coordinator, said the original walls were erected without the agreements but new ones can't be built without them. The advisory board “assured me there were easement agreements but they do not exist,” Berkoski said. She has been waiting a month for advisory board members Ted Nienburg and Steve Amato to give her the final OK on the plans, she said. The project can begin when everything is in place.
Nienburg, who is also president of the homeowners’ association and has been involved with the project since the beginning, said the new markers should be up by the end of the year. “We know exactly what we have to do,” he said. “We have everything in place to get it done.”
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Comments (6)
I cannot believe that this has any importance in the vast scheme of things. Of course, we are talking about SETAUKET. Would this attention be gotten elsewhere? I guess we are in the climate of needing to be recognized, especially if we live in a gated community, OR a neighborhood with entrance signs, markers, walls or anything obstrusive to others. Get over it!
Make it identical to what you have. And stop the B.S. paperwork.
Get the nieghbors to do it since they are paying for it. It would be a fast community outing.
I guess the Town needs to make money on ridiculous paperwork, Title search Termite inspection Area studies. I say that this 4 years fiasco could have been done in a few weekends.
HAve the wives mix the cement, have the husbans lay the brick. The older folks could cook the burgers. Just like an olf d fashioned Barn Raising. Something the whole community will look on everyday with personal pride and fond memories.
I live in South Setauket Park and its not a gated community, its a Levitt housing development, and I barely know my neighbors. It's just like all the others in that Nicolls Rd. (97), Nesconset Hwy. (347) area. I don't really know why this development got a fancy sounding name.
Those walls are at the ends of the main road that goes through the area. There are other roads that connect the area to surrounding areas, so you could leave the "park" without ever knowing it.
Any upper class aura that we gain from those entrance sign walls is countered by the kids riding their dirt bikes and ATVs around the green spaces. I would be fine if they were just torn down and never replaced.
I moved into this Community at the very beginning 1971.
If you are interested in how we got that fancy name...all you have to do is ask. We are a unique Community...its a Park District...so South Setauket Park District...we live in South Setauket.
It would be nice to finally have the entranceways done. When you enter through Hawkins or Wireless it looks very seedy. The only other way out is through Timbercrest...and if you live here you know just where you are going and where you are. I know we have a problem with dirt bikes and ATV's...but that is no reason for us not having the entrance ways fixed.
I hope that this will be done asap...we have been waiting long enough. And, the longer we wait the worse it gets.
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Get some mortar and paint. Do the job yourselves if it's that important.