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LAND PRESERVATION COMMITTEE MEETING
Minutes & Discussion Notes from Meeting held
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Town Hall Annex Executive Board Room
Members Present: Sam McCullough, Chairman
Anne Murray Will Lee
Doris McGreevy Lillian Ball
Eric Keil
Members Absent: John Simicich
Also present: Melissa Spiro, Land Preservation Coordinator
Melanie Doroski, Land Preservation Secretary
Gregory Doroski, Democratic Candidate for Town Supervisor
Commencement
The meeting began at 7:03 p.m. with six LPC members present.
Committee Minutes and Administration
Acceptance of LPC meeting minutes from January 8, 2019 & February 19, 2019
MOTION made by Sam McCullough, seconded by Lillian Ball, to accept the 1/8/2019 LPC meeting
minutes.
Motion carried: 4/0/2 (LPC members Anne Murray and Doris McGreevy abstained as they had not
attended the 1/8/2019 LPC meeting)
MOTION made by Sam McCullough, seconded by Anne Murray, to accept the 2/19/2019 LPC meeting
minutes.
Motion carried: 4/0/2 (LPC members Lillian Ball and Will Lee abstained as they had not attended
the 2/19/2019 LPC meeting)
Next Regular LPC Meeting Date
The next regular meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, 2019.
Land Preservation Applications & Potential Applications
MOTION made by Eric Keil, seconded by Sam McCullough, to enter into EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Proposed Acquisitions of Real Property Where Publicity Would Substantially Affect the Value
Thereof
Motion carried: 6/0
The LPC members entered in EXECUTIVE SESSION at 7:21 p.m.
Land Preservation Coordinator gave updates on inquiries, new applications, appraisals and current
applications.
MOTION made by Eric Keil, seconded by Anne Murray, to end Executive Session.
Motion carried: 6/0
EXECUTIVE SESSION ENDED at 8:36 p.m.
MOTION made by Lillian Ball, seconded by Sam McCullough, to direct Land Preservation Coordinator
Melissa Spiro to extend an offer to landowner, Fishers Island Utility Company, Inc., for the Town’s
purchase of fee title to 5.2± acres of vacant land on East End Road, Fishers Island (SCTM #1000-3.-7-3)
for the purpose of open space land preservation at a price supported by the appraisal. This offer is
subject to Town Board review.
Motion carried: 6/0
MOTION made by Eric Keil, seconded by Lillian Ball, to direct Land Preservation Coordinator Melissa
Spiro to commission an appraisal on property owned by WW Farms, LLC (SCTM #1000-109.-1-11) for
the purpose of farmland preservation on 64± acres of the 77.8± acre parcel, subject to Town Board
authorization.
Motion carried: 6/0
Inquiries for Uses or Structures on Preserved Property
SCTM #1000-63.-1-25.4 (PLT’s AGRICULTURAL CENTER located at Charnews Farm)
Special Event request for 2019 Peconic Land Trust Peconinic
Property subject to Town Development Rights Easement
Request was reviewed via e-mail; formalize vote for the record.
Due to the cancellation of its March 5, 2019 committee meeting and what was at the time a pending
Special Events Permit application before the Town Board, the LPC members reviewed this request via
email so as not to further delay the Town Board’s issuance of the Special Events Permit for the
Peconinic.
LPC members reiterated their review response previously made via email that the proposed parking
areas shown within the protected farmland area on the Event Parking plan submitted with PLT request
letter are consistent with the terms of the recorded easement.
MOTION made by Sam McCullough, seconded by Anne Murray, that the proposed request for the 2019
Peconinic and event parking upon land on which the Town has a development rights easement (SCTM
#1000-63.-1-25.4) is consistent with the terms of the recorded easement.
Motion carried: 6/0
LPC Secretary Melanie Doroski directed to forward easement consistency letter to Peconic Land Trust.
Stewardship and Management:
None
General Land Preservation Items:
SUPERVISOR’S FARMLAND BOND PROPOSAL
LPC discussed the proposed $5 million Farmland Bond Proposal set forth in the Supervisor’s State of
the Town address. LPC supports the farmland bond initiative as a preservation implement.
MOTION made by Eric Keil, seconded by Sam McCullough, that the Land Preservation Committee
supports the Town Board in pursuing the Supervisor’s proposed $5 million Farmland Bond Proposal and
its inclusion in the November 2019 ballot.
Motion carried: 6/0
LPC Secretary Melanie Doroski directed to send LPC support memo to the Supervisor and Town Board.
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MARCH 13 CODE COMMITTEE WITH AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE - UPDATE
Land Preservation Coordinator Melissa Spiro and Land Preservation Committee members Anne Murray
and Will Lee who attended the February 13, 2019 Code Committee meeting on the subject of changes to
the Town Code Chapter 280 gave an update to LPC as some of the proposed changes may affect the
purchase of development rights program.
Adjournment:
MOTION made by Doris McGreevy, seconded by Anne Murray, to adjourn this meeting.
Motion carried: 6/0
The meeting ended at 8:37 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by Melanie Doroski, Land Preservation Secretary