Town of Hempstead adopts multiple local parking and traffic laws; administrative calendar approved

At a Town of Hempstead Town Board meeting, the board closed public hearings and adopted a package of local laws addressing parking restrictions, stopping and traffic regulations in multiple villages and hamlets and approved the administrative calendar, including items 8 through 48.

The board voted to adopt local laws that would limit parking near Island Park, Merrick and Oceanside; enact parking and standing prohibitions in Baldwin, Elmont, Franklin Square, Garden City South, Levittown, Merrick, Oceanside and Uniondale; establish arterial-stop changes in Elmont, Hewlett and Seaford; change traffic regulations in the vicinity of schools in Oceanside; and set bus-stop regulations in Levittown. The board also approved a set of handicap-parking locations on public streets in Elmont, Merrick, Roosevelt, near Valley Stream and West Hempstead. Each item was put to a motion to close the public hearing and adopt the local law and was approved by roll call.

Votes at a glance: Supervisor Clavin, Councilman Dunne, Deputy Supervisor Goosby, Councilwoman Miller, Councilman Muscarella, Councilwoman Ryder and Councilman Schneider voted "aye" on each of the local-law items described above; the motions to close public hearings and adopt the measures carried. The administrative calendar (items 8–48) was approved by the same affirmative roll-call votes.

The administrative calendar contained multiple routine resolutions and two items noted during the meeting: a corrected meets-and-bounds description for the Woodmere Club property that town engineers said will be republished with the correct legal description, and an agreement related to the Greenacres Mall site that, according to staff, includes a developer commitment to pay the town a $210,000 community benefit within 60 days of any site-plan approval and a proportionate share of building-department fees to the Village of Valley Stream. Town staff told the board those details will be included in the record and that the corrected legal description has been distributed to board members.

Separately, the board adopted an amendment to the town's criminal-history background check procedures to reflect changes in New York State law; town staff said the town has fingerprinted full-time employees for decades and the local change updates town paperwork to conform with the state's revised language.

The meeting record shows the votes were taken by oral roll call; no recorded "no" votes or abstentions were announced on the items above. No ordinance or resolution numbers were stated on the public record during the motions; where the transcript did not specify ordinance or resolution identifiers, the article lists those identifiers as "not specified."