Commack QuickChek Plan Stalls Before ZBA

By Connor Beach
cbeach@longislandergroup.com

A proposal to build a QuickChek convenience store in Commack stalled before the Huntington Zoning Board of Appeals last Thursday as several issues with the plans were raised, including signage, noise pollution and traffic.

In order for the proposal to move forward, the ZBA must give the go ahead to variances for oversized signage and a canopy above the planned gas station.

Developers want to build the QuickChek at the corner of Jericho Turnpike and Valmont Avenue, the former site of Northport Ford.

The site of the proposed QuickChek was split into two separately-zoned portions in January 2017 by the Huntington Town Board.

A front, 35,000-square-foot parcel is zoned C-11 and planned to house a gas station with eight pumps. A back, 47,000-square-foot parcel is zoned C-6 and eyed for a 6,805-square-foot convenience store.

Melville-based attorney Joseph Buzzell, who is representing Hauppauge-based developer Enrico Scarda, said the proposal is a means to reinvigorate an “old, dilapidated and very unsightly site” on Jericho Turnpike.

Jeffrey Albanese, a senior real estate manager with QuickChek, said that the company plans to control noise levels by working with delivery companies to ensure tractor-trailers only make deliveries during daytime hours.

After an hour-long hearing, ZBA Chairman Christopher Modelewski tabled the matter with unanimous approval from the board.

Further action on the proposal had not been scheduled by the ZBA as of deadline Wednesday.