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All’s well that ends well and Builds Back Smarter: GEDNEY ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

Posted on December 1, 2021 by John Bailey

WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. December 1, 2021:

December 1, 2021

Dear Neighbors,

The long FASNY saga is finally over. We received news yesterday that FASNY has sold the entire property to Farrell Building Company, a residential developer from Long Island.

It has been over 10 years since FASNY purchased the former country club and announced plans for a regional school complex. Locating such a facility in the middle of a residential neighborhood with limited accessibility to regional roads was always a bad idea. The effort to defend our neighborhood against this plan required significant financial costs and time-consuming hours. Numerous committees of neighborhood residents were formed to evaluate all aspects of the FASNY proposal. Countless public hearings were attended by vast numbers of the community as well as numerous e-mails and letters sent to our elected officials.

I would like to thank the Gedney Association Board members during this period who gave their time so generously to this effort and the majority of White Plains neighborhood associations who supported our position, as well as the over 2,000 residents of the City who signed the petition rejecting the FASNY proposal. Lastly, I want to thank former Common Council Members Milagros Lecuona and Dennis Krolian who, despite enormous outside pressure, maintained their independence and supported preserving the integrity of the Gedney Farms neighborhood.

We look forward to hearing from the Farrell Building Company. We expect that the property will be developed pursuant to the existing zoning which permits detached single-family homes on 30,000 square foot lots. Further, any development should be compatible with the existing historic character of the neighborhood while preserving as much open space and natural features for this designated environmentally sensitive site.

Best Wishes for the Holiday Season.

John E. Sheehan
President

WHITE PLAINS SAVES! SAVES $29 MILLION in 3 Years Relining Sewers with Vinyl Instead of Replacing Pipes

Posted on December 1, 2021 by John Bailey

Relining Saves Time, Saves Money Fixes Sewers Efficiently. Green Mountain cooking and installing vinyl liners on Havilands Lane, White Plains New York USA

WPCNR FOLLOWUPPER. December 1, 2021.

When Green Mountain completed relining Havilands Lane with expanding vinyl lining, (the white material shown in the above photo), with absoultely minimal time (1 DAY) and ABSOLUTELY no inconvenience to the neighborhood, I figured it had to be saving millions of dollars.

I called the Mayor’s Office asking Karen Pasquali, Senior Advisor to Mayor Roach, to find out, in addition to consideration of residents and minimal inconvenience to neighborhoods and time saving, how much relining with vinyl saves the city.

Ms. Pasquali issued this statement:

“This info is from DPW in response to your message:Sewer lining costs about $75 per linear foot vs. about $665 per linear foot to replace the pipe.Over the last 3 years we’ve done about 50,000 linear feet.So since we lined instead of replacing, we saved approximately $29,500,000.”

Demonstration at Abortion Clinic in White Plains Saturday the 27th. Three arrested Police Report Who They Are. “Investigation ongoing,” Polce Chief says.

Posted on December 1, 2021 by John Bailey

WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. From White Plains Police. December 1, 2021 UPDATED 4:23 P.M. E.S.T.:

An abortion clinic in White Plains was the subject of a demonstration Saturday afternoon.

Commissioner of Public Safety David Chong in a statement described what happened.

” It was not an “attack” but a demonstration of around 20-25 people. Most of the demonstrators stayed on the sidewalk.

Three people made entry into the medical facilities and after 3 warnings were arrested for criminal trespass, they were issued Desk Appearance tickets because that’s what the law allows for trespass.

No injuries reported by police or demonstrators.This happened between 130 pm-330 pm.”

White Plains Police Chief Joseph Castelli identified those arrested in this statement this afternoon:

“Willaim Goodman and Christopher Moscinski charged with NYS Penal Code Section 140.10 Criminal Trespass 3rd- Subsection, a Matthew Connolly charged with NYS Penal Code Section 140.05 Trespass.
All other press inquiries are being deferred as this is an ongoing investigation.”

Demonstrations like this have occurred regularly at the clinic for sometime.

WPCNR was advised of this incident through a Choice Matters e-mail describing the incident.

RIDGEWAY COUNTRY CLUB PROPERTY SOLD TO BRIDGEHAMPTION UPSCALE DEVELOPER. LUXURY HOUSING PLANNED. COULD BUILD 40 HOMES UNDER PRESENT ZONING. Reported price: $16.5 Million.

Posted on November 30, 2021 by John Bailey

WPCNR SOUTHEND TIMES. November 30, 2021 UPDATED December 1, 2021:

The Westchester Business Journal reported Tuesday afternoon the French American School of New York owners of the former Ridgeway Country Club property on Ridgeway Avenue in White Plains have sold the property to Farrell Building Company of Bridgehampton, New York for a sum not disclosed . The entire property was sold. The new owner of the property is quoted by Business Journal reporter Peter Katz confirming the sale, saying:

“Given the limited inventory of new construction homes in Westchester County and the resurgence of demand for suburban housing following the pandemic, Ridgeway is the perfect opportunity for the Farrell brand to enter the market. We look forward to working with the City of White Plains on the project which will generate substantial tax revenue for the community.”

WPCNR has since learned from a reliable source with knowledge of the deal, that it was sold for $16.5 Million.

Pictured below from the Farrell Building Company website are typical custom home styles the company builds in the Hamptons, Florida and New York. Their website is www.FarrellBuilding.com

The sale was announced the very last day either party, the French American School or the City of White Plains to notify the Appellate Court in Brooklyn that either party was no longer interested in fighting the Gedney Association appeal of the Common Council decision to approve the development of a new French American School campus on the property.

The property could under the present 30,000 square lot zoning, could result in 40 homes being built on the property, if a zoning change is not sought by the new owner.

The dispute over the legal use of the property as an “institution” has lasted 11 years. Now a ruling by the Appellate Court will not be made on whether a condition issued decades in the past would continue to be enforceble will not be either upheld or denied at least in this classic case.

The FASNY-Gedney battle is a saga of summoning the expert legal strategist, Dan Seidel and his colleague Claudia Jaffe providing their services pro bouno to deliver an argument that induced the Appellate Court to agree to hear arguments in the case, growing out of Judge Joan Lefokowitz’s decision to throw out the Gedney Association original challenge.

An elated Seidel told WPCNR this morning a new proposal by the owner would most likely require a new environmental review of any new site plan. The alleged lack of a “thorough” environmental review was the second grounds on which the Gedney Association based its appeal.

After 11 years of neighborhood resistance, FASNY, (depending on what Farrell Realty pays them, said to be $16.5 Million), may be recouping their losses. The school paid $11 Million for the property in 2009 and a decade of legal fees.

Patch reports “A spokesperson for the school said, over the course of the last couple of years, the space requirements and planning needs of the school evolved, leading to the conclusion that selling the entire property was in the school’s best future interests.”

The Westchester Business Journal story can be read at https://westfaironline.com/143137/breaking-news-french-american-school-sells-white-plains-property/