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Chappaqua Journal Serving the Town of New Castle Volume 1, Number 4 Chappaqua, N.Y., Thursday, September 18,1980 25 Cents A Copy, $10.00 A Year Two new people on Board ConEd reapplies for variance turned down by previous zoning board Opposing residents say ConEd wined, dined the Board; company denies Town and school officials discuss building road behind Bell School it vehemently by Susan McCarthy \If Con Ed thinks they're bringing two lambs to slaughter, they're wrong!\ said New Castle Town Supervisor Charles Banks at a Thursday, September 11 meeting of the Millwood Task Force, a group of town-appointed Millwood and west-end New Castle residents who keep the town informed of their com munity's attitudes on town con cerns. The Supervisor was responding to Con Ed's decision to reapply for a permit for a workout center, which a Task Board member said is Similar to the one already in operation between Route 9A and the Saw Mill River Parkway in Elmsford, on property they own in a Millwood residential section. The Task Force members said that the reapplication came sim ply because the town's zoning ap peals board has appointed two new members-David Durst and Dr. Bruce Gilchrist, since Con Ed was first refused one year ago. The Zoning Board will hear the application on September 24. \They're already veterans,\ Mr. Banks said of Mr. Durst and Mr. Gilchrist, adding that the two have already survived \six mon th's worth of Moonie hearings\ and a \federal court lawsuit.\ Con Ed committed The Task Force said Con Ed seemed to want to build the cen ter in the location very badly. \They did all but throw us a cocktail party,\ commented Task Force Chairman Richard Horton, adding that it tried to sell the town on how good the center would be for the community please turn to page 12 by Rhonda Stearley The possibility of building an access road behind the Bell Mid dle School was discussed by Chappaqua School Board members and New Castle Supervisor Charles G. Banks at the School Board's Sept. 15 meeting. Mr. Banks, along with other Town Board members, strongly supports the road, and said it will decrease traffic congestion at the King Street-Greeley Avenue intersection, and the Woodburn Avenue driveway. \This is an integral element of the down town parking plan and future planning requires interior access among the lots.\ The road would connect the parking area behind the retail stores on South Greeley Ave. with Senter St., by the Commun ity Center, at the northeast edge of the school grounds. The park ing area has only one driveway opposite Woodburn Ave. A referendum is required Supervisor Banks said, for the School Board to grant the neces sary easements. \Get ting people out to vote is a problem. They might feel stronger about voting if the School Board took a posi tive stand.\ But School Board members said subtle differences separate the School Board's interests from ihe town's interests. Board President Robert Matlson said. \We have to consider whether the school will pay a high price'* (in safefy for the students ami drainage which might hurt the athletic fields.) \I have trouble taking a responsibility that is the town's responsibility.\ \If we voted in favor of the project,\ Dr. Joseph Agresta please turn to page 10 Applicant's 'practices*..not in harmony with...community* Unification Church's appeal cf N.C. Zoning Board's denial of Cenacle retreat in Supreme Court next week • Steady trips to Lickety Split... Chappaqua gymnastics program has 200 of them standing in the aisles *- « . _ _ _ T » m _ A. • by Susan McCarthy All it takes to register for Chap- paqua's gymnastics program is a stout heart, comfy shoes, sharp elbows (necessary to steer eager newcomers to the back of the line), endurance and a sense of humor. High-quality teaching, a mod erate price, (in most instances $39 for 13 lessons), and commun ity enthusiasm has created another Chappaqua, tradition - an average two-hour wait in line to register for the programs which began the week of Sept.15. \I thought people were joking when they told me I had to get please turn to page 12 by Barbara Waugh After hearing oyer 2,100 pages of testimony, sitting through 13 separate sessions, listening to 40 witnesses, and examining 179 exhibits, the New Castle Zoning Board of Appeals handed down a ruling. It denied the Holy Spirit Assoication for the Unification of World Christianity (Moonies) a special use permit to run a retreat on the former Cenacle property. That was May 14. On Sept. 26, attorneys for the ZBA will be in White Plains. So will Moonies and their lawyers. At that time the N.Y. State Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Unification Church appeal that ruling, after a post ponement earlier this month. The Unification Church (referred to* as HSA in official documents at Town Hall) bought the 98-acre parcel' between' Route 128 (Armonk Road) and Tripp Road (in Mt. Kisco) in April, 1979, for $650,000. The property, with its 2 1/2-story mansion, had been owned by the Sisters of Cenacle for many years. It was used as a convent and retreat. Though uncon firmed, this paper was told that at one time this estate was owned by Billy Rose. Prior to the Moonies' pur chase, a Transcendental Medi tation group occupied the build- please turn to page 4 More parking places provided for commuters by Town Board Community Day: cheerful tangle of kids, booths, rides, music, bubble gum, politicians and food by Rhonda Stearley Children ciutching balloons and American flags, trying to keep in step~with the parade, found themselves entangled in the long legs of Greeley High School Band members and cheerlead ers. As the Communitv Dav parade wound down from the Community Center to King Street, parents waving to please turn to page 2 by Susan McCarthy The Town of New Castle has ruled that licensed parking will be permitted on the west side of South Greeley Ave. between Woodburn Ave. and the town hall as of Wednesday, Sept. 17. Steps are also being taken to grade off the eastern edge of Old. Pinesbri.dge Rd. for more parking. Since the summer vacation months have ended and the stream of Chappaqua commu ters is back in force, the Town is feeling a parking pinch, with fewer spaces for licensed com muter parking than commuters with parking stickers. Town Clerk JartcttcD. Hunter and Police Chief Frank V. Comito, say that the Chappaqua Flood Control Project construc tion has forced the elimination of ' one of the larger parking lots in the licensed parking lot area surrounding the Chappaqua please turn to page 5 Chappaqua Community Day: A popular activity, listening to the entertainment. More pictures on page 2. Photos hy Steven Bernstein.
