The Town of Huntington Planning Board held its regular meeting on December 3, 2025, at 11:15 AM (evening session). The meeting covered two public hearings, a pre-application presentation, routine approvals, site plan discussions, zone change recommendations, and a waiver request. No speakers were signed up for the public hearings, but one member of the public spoke during the first hearing.
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Town of Huntington's planning board meeting for December 3rd, 2025. I would like to ask you all to please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, everyone. We're going to start the uh meeting off. We have two public hearings, though we don't have any speakers signed up for these two public hearings. So I'm simply going to ask for a motion to accept the public notice. Second, Mr. Tantillo, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. The first hearing is eight Ruth Platt. And I'd like to ask if there's a representative from the applicant that would like to come up and address the planning board. Chairman Ehrlich, members of the board. For the applicant Tamabati, ABBATE. I'm an attorney with offices at 88 Sunnyside Boulevard in Plainview. And this is a proposed four-lot subdivision on Ruth Street in Huntington. This is a neighborhood south of Jericho and west of Deer Park Road. It's brought the name TJ TG landholdings. That's my client Tom Goldsmith, who's here with me this evening. I've been before you on Tom's behalf before Simes, in fact. He's a very reputable and fine builder who resides right here in Greenlawn. The subject premises is located in the R 10 zone, and in fact, on its west side abuts the R5 zone. And it contains nearly 1.8 acres of lot area. So it's dramatically oversized for the R 10 zone, which, as we know, allows single family dwellings on not less than 10,000 square feet of lot area. It presently contains an existing single family dwelling. And part of Tom's plan is to retain that and then create three lots from the balance of the property. We will access those three lots, which will be in the rear of the house via a new cul de sac. And that will be on the west side of the lot. That's at a point where it will abut the long driveway for a flag lot that exists on our on that side of our property. And that cul-de-sac meets all Town of Huntington Highway Department specifications. So should this be approved, that roadway will be dedicated to the Town of Huntington. We do not need that cul-de-sac to access the existing house. The house that's on 8 Ruth has its own driveway, and that's going to remain. So the streetscape of Ruth will look identical to what it is now, but for the addition of the short cul-de-sac on the west side. On January 25th of last year, Tom and I went to the Zoning Board of Appeals because we needed relief in order to create the three lots. And the sole form of relief was lot width at setback. If you look at our plan, you can see that the three lots that we're proposing are triangulated. At the setback line, you have to have a hundred feet across. And we were ranging anywhere from 48 to nearly 60 across. That was the sole form of relief, and the zoning board granted those appeals in all respect. However, what's to be noted is that where the footprint of the houses are, we meet or exceed the 100-foot lot width otherwise required by the R 10 zone. Moreover, when I said it was the only form of relief, these lots meet the front yard setbacks, the rear yard setbacks, side yard setback, aggregate side yard setbacks, and most notably, they exceed the minimum lot area required by the R 10 zone. They're going to run from 11,300 square feet to 27,400 square feet in lot area. And Tom could have at any time developed this property for five lots, and he could have done that as of right without any variances. Tom elected not to do that for two reasons. One, he wanted to keep the existing family dwelling. And then two, if you look at the yield map, which is on the screen now, he found it deficient. He thought the houses would be too close to one another.