The debate over a proposed row house development for downtown Roslyn will continue this Tuesday night as the Village of Roslyn Board of Trustees will hold a public meeting on Aug. 16, beginning at 8 p.m. at Village Hall, 1200 Old Northern Blvd.

B.I.T.I., II, LLC hopes to construct 126 row houses, duplexes and flats, plus a recreation building, a waterfront promenade, a public park, open space, pedestrian cafes, a village green, and municipal parking on property that it already owns.

The property is located south of the Roslyn Viaduct, west of Bryant Avenue and north of Old Northern Boulevard.

The village has held several meetings on the plan, the most recent of which was on July 19.

At that meeting, BOT members reiterated that the plan was what the village had in mind when they drafted and adopted a Master Plan for future construction in Roslyn.

Toward that end, village officials are hoping to draft an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), something that is necessary for any significant construction site, but one that will also help the village identify how the row house plan will effect Roslyn in a variety of ways, including traffic and stormwater runoff, and how the village could then deal with any potential problems.

Among the other concerns of BOT members concerning the plan are how to integrate the row house population into the larger Roslyn community.

Kevin Cameron, an engineer for the village, said the village is preparing a scoping document, one that would address many of the issues already mentioned by BOT members: Traffic, stormwater, density, and drainage design. Such a document, he said, would provide direction for the applicant during the EIS process.

Some village residents and, most prominently, both the Roslyn Landmark Society and Roslyn Preservation Corporation have stated their opposition to the plan, at least at how it now stands.

Members of both the Landmark Society and the Preservation Corporation drafted a letter, one that claimed that the "scale and density [of the project] are not at all in keeping with the scale and density of the village." Both organizations are calling for a building moratorium in Roslyn while the plan is studied further, a suggestion that has been rejected by BOT members.

Other residents have expressed concern over stormwater retention, parking, traffic, retaining walls, the height of the buildings, and the fact that the new plan calls for more units than previous proposals.

Meanwhile, Peter Mineo, an attorney for B.I.T.I. has said that his client has become "anxious" to hear more definite responses from the BOT on the entire project.