Calverton

The Planning Board has directed the town's top planning official to draft a resolution calling on the Town Board to impose a short-term moratorium on new industrial development in Calverton while on the comprehensive plan update is being completed.

The Town Board voted unanimously last night, 4-0 with Councilman Frank Beyrodt recused, to extend the moratorium on new solar energy system approvals, initially adopted in October 2021.

Developer North Point will be required to analyze potential cumulative impacts of its proposed massive logistics center on local roads, air quality, water supply and wastewater management, under a final DEIS scoping statement on the Planning Board’s agenda Thursday.

Local residents are demanding closer scrutiny of impacts, especially truck traffic, from the proposed Riverhead Logistics Center on the west end of Middle Road in Calverton. The developer's scope of review is not adequate they told the Planning Board.

Riverhead Fire Department, assisted by more than a dozen area departments, battled a large mulch fire in Calverton all night.

The 412,000-square-foot HK Ventures industrial building on a 30-acre site on Middle Country Road in Calverton cleared a key milestone in the review process Thursday, with the Riverhead Planning Board’s acceptance of the developer’s final environmental impact statement.

The review and approval of a proposal to build a 412,000-square-foot industrial building on a 30-acre site on Middle Country Road in Calverton stalled at the Riverhead Planning Board last week after the board’s former chairperson lodged a forceful complaint about the process being followed.

Riverhead officials hope the July 8 meeting made headway against the Navy's resistance to bearing financial responsibility for public water to homes near the former Grumman plant, but a Navy spokesperson reached after the meeting was noncommittal.

The Suffolk County Department of Health Services is conducting private water well surveys in neighborhoods immediately south of Peconic Lake in Calverton after detecting harmful chemicals above state drinking water standards in 21 properties in the area.

The 641,000-square-foot warehouse facility on Middle Road proposed by NorthPoint Development of Kansas City, Missouri will be reviewed by the Suffolk County Planning Commission Wednesday at 2 p.m. The meeting will take place via Zoom. (See Zoom credentials below.)