Posted on 03 September 2010
Driving down Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton there is a property nestled between The Pizza Place and Sleepy’s that one might not even realize exists.
The long, narrow lot, with less than 90-feet of street frontage, was once home to a telephone substation. Now it is proposed to become a mixed-use development, with a retail space and [...]
Posted on 03 September 2010
A proposal by a Bridgehampton real estate company to place LCD television screens in the windows of their Main Street office has drawn the attention of members of the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee, as well as Southampton Town councilwoman Nancy Graboski, who sees it as setting a dangerous precedent and disrupting what nine-months of the [...]
Posted on 02 September 2010
Vintage Vines, a proposed 37-lot subdivision in Bridgehampton, drew a handful of ecological and environmental concerns from members of the public at a Southampton Town Board Public hearing on Thursday, August 26.
David Emilita, a planning consultant, was on hand at the meeting earlier that day to help assist the board in evaluating the [...]
Posted on 02 September 2010
With Southampton Town adopting last week a resolution to create a map, plan and report for a proposed Sagaponack Beach Erosion Control District —a self-taxing district which would fund a beach erosion district, Sagaponack resident Gary Ireland is one step closer on his mission to protect the shores his family has lived on for centuries.
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Posted on 31 August 2010
Southampton Town Superintendent of Highways Alex Gregor believes the rain storm of March 29, 2010 will go down in the history books as the most catastrophic weather event of the year. The title is no small feat in a 12-month period that experienced blizzards and heatwaves.
“That rain did more damage than all of the [...]
Posted on 27 August 2010
A proposed 37-lot subdivision on 48.6 acres in Bridgehampton will be back in front of the Southampton Town Planning Board this Thursday, with a public hearing slated for 7 p.m. on the preliminary subdivision application and a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed project.
The project – located west of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, south [...]
Tags: Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor
Posted on 27 August 2010
Richard Blumenthal, the Republican and Conservative Party candidate vying for incumbent New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr.’s seat this November charged last week that the Sag Harbor native risks a conflict of interest in serving both as the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees’ village attorney and as a state assemblyman.
Thiele, a former [...]
Tags: Brookhaven, Sag Harbor
Posted on 27 August 2010
On Tuesday night, members of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board said they favored Elizabeth Dow’s proposal to convert the former Sag Harbor United Methodist Church on Madison Street into a center for textile design, retail and education, but asked for permission to tour Dow’s Amagansett studio before sending a formal letter of support to [...]
Tags: Amagansett Applied Arts, Elizabeth Dow, Sag Harbor
Posted on 27 August 2010
Having already assembled a planning reform advisory group, this week Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst promised members of the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee that she will strive towards creating a more public planning process, where residents can weigh in on development plans and even planned development districts before they get too far down the pike, [...]
Tags: Anna Throne-Holst, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, Southampton Town
Posted on 27 August 2010
Sag Harbor Village’s harbors and docks have seen a growth in revenues this season, while enforcement of basic waterfront laws has also increased under the leadership of Harbor Master Bob Bori, hired last year by the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees after the resignation of Ed Swenson last October.
According to village records, revenues for [...]
Tags: Sag Harbor, sag harbor village