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Home My WebLink About09/18/2023 Southold Transportation Commission Improved safety, Environmental Improvements, Quality of Life, Efficient delivery, Coordination Education AGENDA September 18, 2023 - 10:30 AM Co-Chairs Charlie Gueli & Randy Wade; Sarah Nappa (on zoom), Town Board Liaison; Mary Bess Phillips, Greenport Village Liaison; James Kalin; Charles Peck; Margaret Newman; Chris Shashkin, Police Chief Martin Flatley; Heather Lanza, Town Planning Director; Dan Goodwin, Highway Superintendent. Michael Collins, Town Engineer. 1. Minutes 2. Issue of parking near Little Fish (near Kenny's Rd) 3. No Parking request along rhododendrons on Oak St, Cutchogue 4. Youngs Avenue- Request to have No Parking on the road. See letter below 5. Event procedures: Mattituck Park concerns and New Suffolk Weds sailboat races- Can cones block one side of Marlene Ln. in Mattituck and King St., New Suffolk or should King be one-way temporarily? 6. Speed limit town-wide-Attorney's progress? 7. Transportation Funding needs: A. Bike racks- we need more; need a list of Town owned locations. B. Sidewalks - increase the funding for them in the 2024 budget C. Raising roads for sea level rise(CR 48&SR 25) DOT&SCDPW- • Interactive map of flooding over future years: https://services.nyserda.ny.gov/SLR_Viewer/ default • Guidance for a local resiliency plan: https:Hclimatesmart.ny.gov/fileadmin/csc/documents/ Climate_Smart_Resiliency_Planning_V_2.0.pdf • Randy sent emails to identify who from State and County is working on this. D. Seaview Trails Brochure. Instead of a brochure. Heather will follow up with Sep and see if we can get this in GIS so it can be found in Google Maps, and then have a OR code posted on the website under Trails area and posted at Town Clerk's. 8. County traffic task force. Sarah to consider sending letter or figure out next step. 9. Shelter Island ferry update- Mary Bess 10.DOT letters E. Love Lane stop sign. Sarah corrected stop sign location and asked them to come out and meet us at the site. F. Sharrows. DOT said that they would look at marking Old Sound Ave. And will look into extending the sharrows and we need to ask them to add one to East Marion. 11.New Business 12.Next Meeting: Monday, October 23, at 10:30AM (c)° Long I ii.annd Region m 1!^ of � qin&es,'�� .� i��' li '� � �...�11� spy �.. .�m�� . � I � �� , J„.� �20206 inches 4 inch a 6 i aches 8 inche 1 P050S 8 Inches 11 linches, 116 Inches 1 inches 30 Inches 2DSOs 13 Inches 1S hnehes inures 39, lnuches 58 In lh s, ------------------------- 2,100 15 inches 21 i neh as 34 inches 4711 inns hes , inrn h&s, RECEIVED Patricia R Coyle Michael A.Coyle AUG 2 5 20 1975 Youngs Avenue Southold,NY 11971 631-896-1556 Southold Town Clerk Transportation Committee August 23,2023 c/o Town Clerk Southold Town Hall P.O.Box 1179 Southold,NY 11971 Dear Transportation Committee: We are writing to you on behalf of ourselves and our fellow residents on Youngs Avenue to request that Youngs Avenue from Main Street to Route 48 be classified as a"No Parking”road (A portion of Youngs Ave starting at Main St.is already designated as a No Parking road). Many of us have noticed that since the opening of the new gas station and convenience store(on the comer of Route 48 and Youngs Ave)the volume of traffic has increased dramatically up and down this section of roadway. Additionally,the cars often speed and do not obey the speed limit. This has created a dangerous situation for residents backing out of their driveways. Adding to this problem is a recently adopted bylaw of Founders'Village requiring residents who have pickup trucks to not park inside of the complex but on the street. Nearly everyday there are a couple of large vehicles parked day and night on Youngs Avenue.We have reported this unsafe condition to the Southold Police Dept.who has come out on two occasions and have agreed with us that this situation on Youngs Avenue(increased speeding traffic and parked large vehicles)has created a safety concern. The last officer to respond said he would bring up the issue at a town hall meeting and while we don't know if it is already being addressed,we wanted to add our concerns and call upon the Transportation Committee to help us restore safety to our beautiful roadway.One last note is that these parked vehicles are killing the grass and not helping the new trees that the Town planted last year to thrive. We very much appreciate your efforts to help us. Thank you. Cordially, Patricia F.Coyle Michael A.Coyle,'- Town of Southold Traffic Committee September 13,2023 Attn:Ms,Miranda Wade Ms.Sarah Nappa Recently many of us living on Oak Street in Cutchogue were informed of the Town of Southold's decision to out or remove a row of large rhododendrons at the curve near the southern end of our street.These shrubs,which were planted in,1982,have grown into beautiful large specimens and in the spring present our neighborhood with a wall of spectacular blooms- t realize that safety must come first and while some trimming must be done to mitigate the alleged unsafe condition,I hope it will be minimal since these older shrubs will not bloom after severe pruning.I also want you to be aware that across from the southwest corner of 220 Oak Street,the road appears to be on private property. Once the rhododendrons are cut,it will unfortunately become more attractive to park there. Already cars have been parked where someone earlier this year"trimmed"some of the rhododendrons.Parked cars on this curve in the street will just be another safety hazard and these bushes will have been cut for no reason. I therefore request the Traffic Committee consider placing"No Parking"signs along the west side of Oak Street as soon as,or before,the rhododendrons are cut. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Denise Brown 170 Oak St Cutchogue,NY 631-734-5617 Dear Ms. Wade, Pat Poppe asked be to send you copies of my correspondence with Sarah Nappa, which I have now done. Our group of residential neighbors of the Little Fish restaurant is unanimously in favor of the installation of No Parking signs along both sides of North Sea Drive. We have all been advised and accept that will limit our own ability to park there. Our group consists of the following members listed below, many of whom have young grandchildren who play or bicycle or who walk dogs along North Sea Drive. I don't know for sure whether one of the photographs that I forwarded to you from Pat Poppe shows the scene of two pedestrians struggling to climb the shoulder on the northern side of North Sea Drive to bypass parked vehicles. I am very concerned that pedestrians also have to face oncoming traffic in order to get around parked cars, subjecting them to the risk of being hit by speeding or inattentive drivers. In any event, our group consists of the following families: Paul and Deborah Belica; George Demos;Jordan and Wendy Handler; Dominic Marvellia; Chris and Pat Poppe; Brian and Tara Reed; Cynthia and Tom Rosicki; Beverly and Monroe Sonnenborn and Orestes and Evelyn Varvitsiotes. In the past, we have found the new owners of the restaurant to be generally uncooperative and uncaring about their location in the midst of an entirely residential neighborhood. Instead,they have insisted on their"right"to run their restaurant however they pleased. They have not even take the simple step of painting lines in their large parking lot which would create a more orderly situation and reduce or eliminate the overflow created by the absence of clearly delineated parking spaces, which apparently encourages customers to park instead along both sides of North Sea . They are operating their restaurant in a manner that indicates that they are unaware or don't care that its very existence is subject to a 2003 ZBA decision that substantially limited the scope and hours of their operation in an effort to make sure that the restaurant would not be operated as a bar or nightclub that would be inconsistent with its location in an entirely residential neighborhood. Finally, although you will see from my attempts to reach Sarah Nappa that I didn't want to travel to Southold without knowing whether I would be on your agenda tomorrow, I could attend remotely by Zoom. The problem is that when I briefly joined your meeting in August, I was told that the feature that would allow me to participate was not working on your end and that I should try to attend your September meeting instead.