The Roslyn Village Site Review Board has laid out several new conditions for WB Partners to meet for its construction of 10 single-family residential units on Remsen Avenue.

WB Partners, a contracting firm based in Forest Hills, has already received SRB approval to begin construction work. However, up to 16 conditions have been placed on WB concerning both the construction and the maintenance of the new housing site.

Tree maintenance has been a major issue for the SRB since negotiations over the housing project began last year. A new condition states that, "trees will be marked, inventoried and identified for preservation and will be adequately protected by haybale or other appropriate enclosure from damages by means determined by the Building Inspector in advance of construction."

Previous tree maintenance conditions included a building covenant setting forth the requirement to maintain the trees for each lot.

In addition, WB will agree to pay the village $10,000 for the "wear and tear to be experienced by Remsen Avenue during the construction period." The sum will be payable upon the issuance of the first certificate of occupancy.

Also on the financial front, WB had previously agreed to submit to the village a written guarantee "of a financially competent individual....having a net worth of at least $3 million which will assure....the completion of each dwelling unit for which a building unit shall have been taken out." WB has also agreed to pay the village $5,000 to clean up any future "wash outs" flowing from the new houses onto public highways.

Finally, mailboxes for the homes to be constructed "shall not be maintained within the front yard setback of each lot." This restriction must appear in the deed of each lot sold and is subject to the authority of the local US Post Office.

The new contract stipulations brings to twelve the total of conditions set down by the SRB.

Other previously agreed-upon maintenance conditions include the upkeep of an "island" that WB plans to build in the middle of the housing development. Specifically, WB has agreed to do any irrigation and landscaping work on the development. WB also agreed to maintain---and not remove---the walls in an area designated as "conservation easement."

The most ambitious condition set down by the SRB concerns an historic structure currently located on one of the lots pinpointed for future construction. The structure is an old residential home that, according to village officials, fits the criteria for an historic building. Village officials have decided to move the home to a dead end street area on Remsen Avenue and WB has agreed to pay for the removal of the home to its new location.

Failure by WB to live up to all maintenance conditions will allow the village to "draw up" against the public improvement bond that was submitted for this particular development.

For many decades, the property on Remsen Avenue where WB will build was home to a public school. Although not in use for a number of years, the Roslyn Public School district has continued to own the building. WB will buy the property from the school district and thus be responsible for its day-to-day maintenance.