Score Another For “The Little Guy”
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- December
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Tonight’s Westchester County Board of Legislators meeting is all about the bloated budget, but there’s a number of little items they were hoping to slip by….and it looks like we stopped the Spanoistas on one of them.
The Democratic administration had hoped to push through a resolution to put a half-acre of county-owned property up for auction sale. Located in the New Rochelle, the property was supposed to be used in a parkway project 80 or so years ago and was all but forgotten and virtually abandoned.
The only thing is that over the years the New Rochelle homeowners on Flandreau Avenue had turned the little parcel into a kind of park, on their own and at their own expense.
The county wanted to dispose of the property, but by law had to offer it to the city for a $1, which the city council embraced in a 7-0 vote. But it turned out the county really wanted to sell the land, worth at least $250,000, so that a developer could squeeze some houses on it. They pressured the council into rescinding the vote.County Legislator Jim Maisano, a New Rochelle Republican, seized the issue and has vigorously lobbied his fellow legislators to block the Spano gang from getting their way on this highly suspicious deal. It’s been a park….and it should stay a park.
The early word is that Maisano will succeed tonight.
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