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Home My WebLink AboutLP-04/08/2025 LAND PRESERVATION COMMITTEE MEETING Minutes & Discussion Notes from Meeting held Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. This Regular Meeting was held in the Annex Executive Board Room, located on the 2nd floor at Southold Town Hall Annex, 54375 Route 25(Main Road), Southold, New York. The public had access to view and listen to the meeting as it was happening via Zoom. If an attendee did not have access to a computer or smartphone, there was an option to listen in via telephone. Comments from the public may not be solicited nor received without an appointment. It is expected that the Committee will enter into Executive Session*at some point after opening the Regular Meeting for the purpose of discussing applications regarding proposed acquisitions of real property where publicity would substantially affect the value thereof. The public is not allowed to attend, view, or listen to Executive Session. 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Committee Minutes and Administration • Acceptance of LPC meeting minutes from August 6, 2024 Tabled until a quorum of Committee members eligible to approve these minutes is achieved. • Acceptance of LPC meeting minutes from February 11, 2025 MOTION made by Anne Murray, seconded by Sam McCullough, to accept the February 11, 2025 LPC meeting minutes. Motion carried: 4/0 • Acceptance of LPC meeting minutes from March 25, 2025 Tabled until a quorum of Committee members eligible to approve these minutes is achieved. • Next LPC Meeting Date: April 22, 2025 General Preservation • None Inquiries/Applications for Uses or Structures on Preserved Property • NFVS Holdings LLC SCTM# 1000-102.4-6.1 Request to Construct an Agricultural Storage Barn Lilly reviewed the structure permit application for a barn to be used for storage of farm equipment and cattle feed. The Committee reviewed the proposed structure, which is substantially similar to a structure the Committee previously reviewed, and determined it is consistent with the applicable easement's terms, provided the uses remain as indicated. MOTION made by Eric Keil, seconded by Sam McCullough that the Committee has reviewed and discussed NFVS Holdings LLC's request to construct a barn for storage of equipment and feed related to the onsite vineyard and cattle pasture. The Committee finds that the proposed structure is consistent with the applicable easement's terms, provided that all uses remain related to agricultural production as defined in Chapter 70.The Committee did not review the size or location of the building. Motion carried: 4/0 Stewardship and Management • None Land Preservation Applications & Potential Applications: • Tuthill Oysterponds Holding Company SCTM# 1000-17.4-14.2, 16; 1000-18.-3-30.3; 1000-18-6-17.3 Request from Planning Board re: Review of Conservation Subdivision lot design The Committee reviewed draft comments on the landowners' final plat submission. The Committee had no further comments on the North Dyer or South Dyer lot designs, though the Committee reiterated its preference that access to the residential lots on South Dyer is located on Racketts Court to maximize preservation of active farmland. The Committee determined that attaching only 20,679 of development area to the proposed easement area on North Brown is insufficient, and the Committee will not recommend purchase of development rights under this current design. Where the Town has, as a matter of policy, required at least 80,000 square feet remain attached to easement area for many years, anything below 80,000 square feet is a significant compromise. Committee members noted that agricultural retail and processing operations located on 40,000 square feet struggle to constrain their operations to that space, so half that area is not functional. Because the Committee last suggest 30,500 square feet would be acceptable when it reviewed in 2021, they proposed that the reserve area be no smaller than that. Additionally, the Committee reiterated their preference that the reserve be located on the Main Road. The Committee determined that South Brown's lot size was acceptable, but that the location on the southern half of the parcel with access only from Narrow River Road was not. The Committee discussed the design's lack of utility, which divides the reserve area from the area in production, and would require traveling the Main Road and Narrow River Road to move equipment, produce, etc. from one part of the farm to the other. The Committee also discussed how coastal flooding is likely to impede access to the lot and could create and future obligation for the Town to raise a significant section of Narrow River Road. The Committee also discussed the need to distinguish between buildable and unbuildable land in the proposed preservation areas, which the current "Development Rights to Be Sold" labeling on the South Dyer and South Brown final plats do not account for. The Committee agreed that area tables for the proposed preservation areas should account for the amount of unbuildable land but defers to the Planning Department on specific wording. The Committee planned to review a draft incorporating this discussion at the next meeting. • EXECUTIVE SESSION- Legal Advice Regarding Stewardship and Management Proposed Acquisitions of Real Property Where Publicity Would Substantially Affect the Value Thereof MOTION made by Anne Murray, seconded by Sam McCullough, to enter into EXECUTIVE SESSION. Motion carried: 4/0 The LPC members entered into EXECUTIVE SESSION at 8:02 p.m. Meeting locked. o Lillian McCullough, Land Preservation Executive Assistant— Inquiries, new applications, appraisals and current applications MOTION made by Sam McCullough, seconded by Anne Murray, to exit Executive Session. Motion carried: 4/0 EXECUTIVE SESSION ENDED at 8:24 p.m. Land Preservation Applications & Potential Applications -OPEN SESSION • None Adjournment: MOTION made by Sam McCullough, seconded by Eric Keil, to adjourn this meeting. Motion carried: 4/0 The meeting ended at 8:25 p.m. Respectfully submitted by Cathy Kreshon, Land Preservation Committee Secretary