Moratorium

Kansas City developer NorthPoint has abandoned its logistics center plan on Middle Road and sold out to NYC-based partner who says he’ll cut development by 150,000 sq. ft. and build a traditional warehouse space to serve the regional market.

A halt on all industrial development activities in the hamlet of Calverton has been extended for three more months.

The Riverhead Town Board scheduled a public hearing this week on a local law to extend its moratorium on industrial development in Calverton another three months.

The Riverhead Town Board is poised to set a public hearing on a local law to extend the town’s moratorium on industrial development in Calverton another three months.

A resolution setting a hearing on a three-month extension of the Calverton industrial moratorium was tabled by the Town Board at its meeting this afternoon. The current six-month moratorium expires next month, long before any zoning changes will be in place.

The Riverhead Planning Board on Thursday night accepted a draft environmental impact statement for circulation and review. Internal review of the document will be suspended once the moratorium takes effect upon filing with the N.Y. Secretary of State.

The proposed three-month moratorium on commercial battery energy storage system facilities in Riverhead is no longer necessary, Supervisor Tim Hubbard said yesterday, with the state about to issue new safety regulations that will apply to any BESS facilities built in Riverhead.

The Riverhead Town Board at its first meeting of the new year is poised to adopt a six-month moratorium on new development of industrially zoned land in Calverton.

With the absence of one of the two board members willing to vote for an industrial moratorium, and the holidays coming up, Council Member Tim Hubbard said Wednesday he will wait till after the new year to put the moratorium proposals on the board's agenda, "when I have guaranteed support for them."

A much-anticipated vote on two moratorium measures sought by residents and introduced by Council Member Tim Hubbard but resisted by a reluctant board majority was did not take place last week.