Town of Babylon rental board approves multiple permit renewals, grants extension for Amityville property

The Town of Babylon Rental Board approved renewal applications for multiple rental properties and granted a short extension to one Amityville applicant after ordering exterior repairs, the board said at a meeting.

The approvals covered renewals for properties listed on the agenda, including 146 Caboto Avenue (Copay), 95 Shamalik Place (Copay), 39 South 25th Street (Wyandanch), 146 North 27th Street, 122 Washington Avenue (Wheely Heights) and others. The board voted to extend the renewal deadline for the Amityville property on Great Neck Road to Jan. 29 and gave the applicant a list of exterior corrections to complete before an occupancy permit is issued.

Board members said the renewals enforce code compliance and tenant safety in the town. The presiding officer noted the board uses a third-party screening tool to check for short-term rentals: "We do use, a program called Rentalscape, which, goes and looks at all the addresses to see if any, any of these address or any short term, like Airbnb or VRBO, which is against the town code," the presiding officer said. That statement came during…