Want to weigh in on 25A development?
Corridor study community forum scheduled for next Saturday
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The first of a series of community forums on Brookhaven's Route 25A Corridor Study will be held Saturday, Jan. 30 at the Rose Caracappa Senior Center in Mount Sinai. The study aims to examine development and traffic safety along the 10-mile corridor between Wading River and Mount Sinai.
The community planning forum will run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. inside the main room of the senior center.
The study will cover the 10-mile-long stretch of Route 25A between Crystal Brook Hollow Road in Mount Sinai and the Riverhead Town border near Wading River Manor Road in Wading River. As part of the study, members of the community will be engaged during public planning forums about the issues that concern them related to building, traffic flow and safety.
"They are going to roll out from one community to the next," said 2nd District Councilwoman Jane Bonner, who secured $180,000 in funding for the study, to be commenced by Buckhurst Fish and Jacquemart, a planning firm with offices in Manhattan and New Jersey. Four other community planning forums will follow the one in Mount Sinai, with the next one to be held in February in Miller Place. Forums will be held in Rocky Point in mid-March and in Shoreham-Wading River in April. The dates and times will be posted on the town's Web site and postcards will be mailed to residents of each hamlet.
Ms. Bonner said the community planning forums will include stakeholders from different community groups, such as schools, fire departments and small-business owners. From there, participants will be able to go back to their perspective groups for feedback.
"It's very exciting in that this brings me back to my civic roots," Ms. Bonner said. "It's all driven by the stakeholders, not what typically happens in the Town of Brookhaven."
News that the first steps of the corridor study have been taken was welcomed by Sid Bail, first vice president of the Wading River Civic Association. Mr. Bail, who is a member of the working group for Shoreham-Wading River, said there are realistic expectations over what the study can achieve in both the long and the short term, but that there are some concerns about getting people excited about it. However, Mr. Bail said the end results will make it worthwhile and he is optimistic.
"It will be more comprehensive than the hamlet studies," he said. "Some of these hamlet studies were done many years ago."
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