MOHEGAN LAKE-- Seven Oaks, the run-down 56-unit apartment complex in Mohegan Lake that was once used as a homeless facility, will remain unchanged until the Town of Cortlandt Planning Board sees plans from the developer of a proposed condominium project that include two alternate entrances to the Cortlandt Town Center, and a second look at protecting nearby wetlands.
This development, said John Bernard, vice chairman of the Planning Board, will be a good change for that area.
Nevertheless, heavy traffic on Route 6 has caused Planning Board members to express concerns over increased traffic and vehicles forced to make illegal lefts out of the development. A study has been commissioned by the Town of Cortlandt to look into whether traffic will increase as a result of the Pondview Commons project and other redevelopment in the area.
Alternative entrances to the Cortlandt Town Center would allow residents at Pondview to use the traffic light in the Cortlandt Town Center as an entrance and exit, rather than illegally turning left onto Route 6.
Theyre looking at us like were a new subdivision, said an exasperated Demetri Vourliotis, owner of the property, Those things have been there 50, 60 years.
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