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Residents urge Town of Babylon to reject proposed Wyandanch industrial park, citing traffic and environmental risks
Summary
Dozens of Wheatley Heights and Wyandanch residents told the Town of Babylon Board they oppose rezoning for a proposed industrial park near Little East Neck Road, warning of heavy truck traffic, air and water contamination risks, and harm to neighborhood quality of life.
Dozens of residents told the Town of Babylon Board on Nov. 6 that a proposed industrial park — variously called the Bristol/Pinelawn or Wyandanch project — should not be built on forested land behind Wheatley Heights and Wyandanch.
At the open portion of the meeting, residents described a range of public-health, traffic and environmental concerns, saying the site would bring heavy truck traffic and irreversible damage to water recharge areas. "Turn it into blocks of cement with, potentially, you know, hundreds of trucks at one time idling and poisoning our air," said Ruthie Scheck of 57 Circle Drive, who…
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