A public hearing will be held next month on a proposal to develop 44.5 acres of land, known to many as the Santilli sand mines, into a sports complex and soccer fields.
The hearing, originally scheduled for March, is now slated for April 19.
The plans, according to an employee at the Town of Smithtown Planning Department, remain unchanged since they were presented at a
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Santilli Commercial Developers, owners of the property, plan to install a 16,000 square foot sports facility, four soccer fields and two dedicated ball fields.
Developers met with some opposition at the February meeting including Read Smith, zoning committee chairperson for the KPCA who called the plan “misconceived and dangerous”.
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Still others think there is a need for the fields. Santilli estimated at the meeting that it would be at least a year before development on the property would begin.
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