He pointed out that his village has 2,200 tax parcels, of which about 1,980 had been developed in 1990, but that the 1990 census counted only 1,592 residents.
Many of the officials in attendance had been part of protracted negotiations over the 2,200-acre 2,200-acreelsite which had to be acquired from more than a dozen landowners.
Land that had been in 80 Crown pastoral leases, with an average size of 5,938 ha and where land use was restricted to extensive sheep grazing, has so far been subdivided into at least 865 parcels, of which 550 are smaller than 50 ha.
The property, which Holiday is in contract to purchase from the Town of Oyster Bay for $16 million, is part of a 64.5-acre parcel, of which nine acres at the north corner are to be set aside as a permanent preserve on which development is barred.
For example, if a person owns two parcels, one of which has no access to a public road, sells the landlocked parcel to another person, and gives him permission to build a driveway across the lot the seller has retained, the license becomes irrevocable when the buyer invests in the property, reasonably believing that the permission will not be revoked.
The Belgian part, called Baarle-Hertog, is a collection of 26 separate parcels, four of which are on the Belgian-Dutch border (therefore technically not 'claves) and 22 within Baarle-Nassau, the Dutch part of town [5].
It could carve out as many as 18 house lots on the owners' two adjacent Montauk Highway land parcels, one of which has been a golfing facility since 1957.
By the late 1970's, the owners had divided 100 more acres of the farm into five parcels, four of which have been sold and filled with a hotel and three office buildings along Tice Boulevard.
Starwood execs blame Italian bureaucracy for holding up the sale of the 25 parcels, 17 of which are on the peninsula, five in Spain and three in Austria.
Public lands dominate the western and southern portions of the county, where lands have been cut up into many tiny parcels, most of which are owned by absentee landowners.
The parcel, most of which Sloan-Kettering never paid taxes on, abutted preserves.
