Riverhead Zoning Board of Appeals

A former Riverhead ZBA member argues against Stony Brook Medicine’s proposed ambulance garage at Staples Plaza: The zoning doesn't work.

ZBA Feb. 12 meeting wrap: 52 Main Rd. warehouse application pulled, PBMC asks ZBA to reopen hearing on Stony Brook Ambulance Center.

The Riverhead Zoning Board on Thursday held public hearings on a proposed warehouse and a proposed ambulance facility in zoning districts where those uses are not permitted.

A ZBA hearing on two variances for a proposed Calverton cannabis greenhouse widened into debate over odors, traffic and code interpretation.

A sand mine off Osborn Avenue, adjacent to Riverhead Town’s defunct landfill, does not have a pre-existing right to mine below the water table, the Riverhead Zoning Board of Appeals ruled last week.

Riverhead Town has rejected a proposal to site a retail cannabis dispensary in a Route 58 commercial building just west of the traffic circle because the location is less than 1,000 feet from the Riverhead High School property.

Riverhead Town Code requires cannabis dispensaries to be located at least 1,000 feet from any school. Since Riverhead High School is only 735 feet south of the proposed site, the applicant needs permission of the ZBA. It met resistance at a hearing last week.

A retail cannabis business Riverhead Town officials have so far prevented from opening in a former bank building on Ostrander Avenue is asking a court to exempt the property from the town’s restrictive marijuana zoning code.

HK Ventures has modified its proposal to reduce the extent of the variances it needs for its 412,659-square-foot industrial complex on a 30-acre site in Calverton.