City Island Civic Association

Community Board 10 will hold a public hearing for the City Island community at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2, in the City Island library auditorium, 320 City Island Avenue, to discuss a proposed zoning change for the 5.4-acre property that was formerly the site of International Underwater Contractors. The site is now zoning light manufacturing (M1-1) but the developer City Island Estates LLC wishes to build 22 detached houses consisting of 43 dwelling units, and this requires a zoning change to R3A. The property faces Fordham Street, the shoreline of Long Island Sound, part of Carroll Street and Fordham Place.

Melanie Meyers and Stanley Schlein, attorneys representing City Island Estates LLC, presented plans at the May 2009 meeting of the City Island Civic Association and explained their plans for the development of the property and took questions in preparation for the hearing on June 2. For more information about the project, read the June issue of The Island Current, which will be on sale Thursday afternoon, May 27.