Eatery agrees to plan to block noise, light

In exchange for constructing the berm, Scotto will be allowed to add about 100 parking spaces at the site, raising the number of stalls to about 220, town planning director Frank DeRubeis said.

Attorney Don King of Kings Park said Scotto approved the deal. "There was a shortfall of parking when it was really busy," he said.

DeRubeis said Scotto must use valets to park cars. "It has to be valet parking in order to get to that number of parking," he said. "We think that this solves it."

The town board on Tuesday approved the new parking as part of a modified site plan for the restaurant. It awaits approval from the town Zoning Board of Appeals, King said.

One neighbor, Anthony Setteducati, said he was optimistic the changes would alleviate residents' concerns. "It sounded like a reasonable plan to me," he said in a telephone interview. "I'm hopeful that it will work."

He and others had complained to town officials that they could not sleep because of late-night noise and music from the restaurant, and they said headlights from cars in the parking lot had been shining into their homes.

"They have DJs there," Setteducati said. "They blast music so that you can hear it three blocks away. That's really the problem."

Scotto and his representatives had disputed some of the residents' complaints at town board meetings, but said they would seek a remedy.

DeRubeis said Scotto had agreed to add building material that would absorb sounds. "They paid attention to a lot of noise issues and they took our suggestions," he said.