ATV Users Continue To Look For Place To Ride

[mikelbeck]

As the weather heats up, more people are taking to the outdoors for recreational activities. One group, however, is searching for a place to enjoy their sport, as all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts still do not have a site in Suffolk that they can call home.

http://www.zwire.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1776&dept_id=6365&newsid=18625684

[Tmac]

It appears Mr.Levy was willing to show his public support to the EPCAL motorsports plan and is sending a letter to Mr.Cardinale.The focus of the article was ATV riders who appear to be organizied with a chain of command,something I think we should do.One man,Tom Riker,speaking for thousands.The S.M.A.R.T. concept of all motorsports under one banner can work and we should reach out to these other organizations to join forces.Strike while the irons hot.Any members or visitors of this site that know or are members of other groups should bring up the idea to your groups.THE STRONGER THE VOICE THE BETTER IT'S HEARD!!The time to act is now.

[Whitetrashhero]

Who cares, those guys are idiots.

http://break.com/index/atv-wipeout-on-concrete-staircase.html

I think we wshould stick to drag racing

[thenative1]

Anything that would benefit Long Island people has to go through a million miles of bullsht redtape. When will the pile of SHT ie N.I.M.B.Y.'S, POLITICIANS WITH NO BACKBONE AND SPECIAL COMMUNITY INTEREST GROUPS STOP WITH ALL THIS REDTAPE LEGAL PING PONG. GIVE US A FUKIN BREAK ALREADY.

Who Will Take Lead For Isl. Water Park?
By:Hank Russell
08/22/2007

The town of Riverhead, the Long Island Pine Barrens Society and The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation could have an answer by early September to the question of who will be designated the lead agency for the proposed Island Water Park project. Officials are awaiting a court decision on the lawsuit over the project, which is slated to be built on a portion of the town-owned Enterprise Park at Calverton.


As previously reported, developer Eric Scott proposed building a 42-acre water ski park on the EPCAL property. Construction began in 2003, but a year later, the project was halted when excavators hit an aquifer at groundwater level. When the LI Pine Barrens Society put a halt to the construction, citing the property's close proximity to the Pine Barrens region, Scott filed a lawsuit over the commission's move.
Scott's lawyer, John Zollo of the Smithtown law firm Vincent Trimarco & Associates, said he spoke to Town Attorney Dawn Thomas and has yet to hear anything. "I'm waiting," Zollo said, adding a decision will not be made "until Labor Day" week.
In a letter dated August 14, Pine Barrens Society Executive Director Richard Amper wrote to NYS DEC Commissioner Alexander Grannis requesting the NYS DEC, not the town, be the lead agency on this matter. Amper stated that the NYS DEC should oversee jurisdiction because the agency "is possessed of the trained professional staff required to responsibly assess the proposal. Riverhead is not."
Declining to comment further on the matter, Amper instead provided Suffolk Life with the letter he sent to the DEC. He wrote that the town "has never demonstrated any evidence of concern about the impacts of the proposed Island Water Park even as the project has evolved from lined to unlined lakes to ATV [all-terrain vehicle] tracks."
As previously reported, Scott also looked into putting an ATV park on the land. The town board has considered that proposal, as well as another project from a rival developer that does not include a motorsports or racing complex.
The town looked into making one part of the property an ATV park, according to Cardinale, but there were some problems. "That [proposal] has to go to the DEC to amend the DEC permit, and they have," he said. "Then the DEC seeks to be the lead agency [for the State Environmental Quality Review process], which we prefer them not to be. We should be the lead agency."
Also, when the idea for the proposed ATV park was brought to the Zoning Board of Appeals, Rick Hanley, the town's planning director, said that, although the area was zoned for raceway use for motorsports and horses, it was not properly zoned for ATVs. "If it's not zoned [for ATV use], we can't give them site plan approval," Cardinale said.
In the meantime, Amper's letter has since been received by the NYS DEC, according to DEC spokesperson Aphrodite Montalvo. "A decision has not been made yet [by the courts]," she said.

[Tmac]

Where was Mr. Hamster when they tore out the trees at West Hampton to make way for housing.Those cwazy wabbits took out a wot of twees there.Oh he was looking over there or was it here.Thats what happens when you hang out wif animuls.Were those wabbits smoking and wearing leather jackets.I thought so.I here there's plans to build another ten Home Depots.There needed to sell all those pine barron qussmas twees.:D