The Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Trustees approved a conditional-use permit last Wednesday for a family physician seeking to open offices at 12 Bond St.
Dr. Roya J. Hassad, the founder of Advanced Medical Health Services, said the offices would serve as her primary practice.
I want to be able to grow and do my best here,” Hassad said.
The board approved Hassad’s office plan, which calls for five examination rooms, but restricted the size of her staff to six people.
Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said she didn’t want to curb Hassad’s room for growth but there was no reason to set her staff limit higher than six before her practice opened.
Hassad, Celendar said, could always come back before the board to ask for adjustments to her permit.
“More doctors translates into having more patients and more demand on the parking facilities,” said Celender. “It has impacts on how that particular space translates into density concerns and traffic concerns.
In seeking approval for a potentially larger staff, Hassad said her No. 1 goal was quality patient care.
“My goal is to provide the best care for the people within the community, and I don’t want to have any limitations to do the best I can do,” Hassad said.
The office building at 12 Bond St. is currently home to three dentists’ offices.
In other developments, Wychwood apartment residents said men were congregating in an alley next to the apartment building and drinking alcohol late into the night.
“When you have a bunch of men drinking in an alley it’s only a matter of time before something bad happens, whether it’s by accident or by design,” Claudia Kirshner said.
Kirshner said the men congregating there posed a health hazard since the alley, which located just south of the Wychwood apartments at 8 Barstow Road, is a fire lane.
“If a fire truck comes through that alley they’ll either kill five men or they won’t be able to get through,” she said.
Kirshner also said that the convenience store at the corner sells alcohol until 11 p.m. and creates a “confluence of bad events.”
“I’ve been living here for eight years and it’s really worsened in the last three,” she said.
Celender suggested putting sensor lights in the alley but Kirshner said there were already small lights back there.
Kirshner asked the board to put up signage warning against trespassing in a fire lane, which must be unobstructed by law.
Trustee Lawrence Katz said these men would not care about a sign.
Celender said that the board would send a letter to the owner of the convenience store informing the owner know that the village had gotten complaints about people congregating and drinking alcohol behind his store.
“This is Great Neck, not the Bowery,” Kirshner said.
