Zoning Board of Appeals

The zoning board unanimously denied an application to allow Stony Brook Medicine to operate an ambulance center at Staples Plaza on Route 58.

Peconic Bay Medical Center objects to Stony Brook's plan to base a mobile stroke unit at the proposed facility in Staples Plaza, a short distance from the hospital, which is about to open a stroke center.

The Riverhead ZBA last night denied two variance requests from a state-licensed cannabis cultivator needed for an indoor growing operation on Middle Road.

The Riverhead Zoning Board of Appeals last night denied a variance to allow a retail cannabis dispensary at a former bank site on Ostrander Avenue.

A decision on whether to allow a retail cannabis shop to open in a former bank building on Ostrander Avenue was postponed until at least Feb. 13.

An auto repossession business operating without permits at the former Blackman Plumbing site on West Main Street was the center of controversy at the Jan. 9 Zoning Board hearing.

A cannabis shop proposed for a vacant former bank branch on Ostrander Avenue got pushback at town zoning board public hearing Thursday. The use needs variances because the site is outside the Rt. 58 commercial corridor for cannabis and is too close to residential uses.

Thursday's Zoning Board of Appeals meeting will be the last for Chairperson Fred McLaughlin, who is retiring at the end of this month after 28 years of service on the ZBA.

The Riverhead Zoning Board of Appeals granted permission for HK Ventures to construct warehouse buildings s 5 ½ feet taller than allowed by code, adding 2.25 million cubic feet to total building volume.

After several months of settlement negotiations involving two separate lawsuits between the town and the owners of Dimon Estate over catering at the Manor Lane, Jamesport restaurant, the owners have filed a new application to build a 6,000-square foot dining/catering room addition.