Brookhaven Board of Zoning Appeals handles dozens of variances and permits; major items include Page Development signage, Great Gardens digester and kennel, and

The Town of Brookhaven Board of Zoning Appeals met Jan. 29 in the Town Hall auditorium and considered more than 50 items, including petitions for signage and parking variances, land divisions into 50-foot lots, and special-permit requests for large industrial sites and animal-care facilities.

The board opened with procedural rules and then spent much of the afternoon and evening on a long agenda that mixed routine residential variance requests with larger commercial and environmental questions. Several noteworthy matters: Page Development sought parking and multiple signage variances for a 22,450-square-foot addition and a large freestanding sign at the Sunrise Highway shopping center in Patchogue; Great Gardens returned on height and parking relief tied to its anaerobic digester facility in Yaphank; New York Bully Crew applied for a kennel on a substandard lot within a hydrogeologic sensitivity overlay near Manorville; and a three-building industrial/warehouse proposal on the former Dowling College property in Shirley sought a special permit for overnight parking of registered vehicles and an extensive parking variance.

What happened - Page Development (Patchogue): The board heard a detailed presentation and a traffic/parking study that showed peak observed demand well below code-based requirements; planners and board members pressed the applicant on parking banked areas and prior signage compliance. At the hearing the board voted to close the hearing and hold the matter for decision…