HomeMy WebLinkAboutWilliam Goggins for George Braun Oyster Co 6.2025 Attorney at Law
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June 23, 2025
Ms. Heather M. Lamer, AICP Planning Director
Southold Town Planning Board
P.O. Box 1179, 54375 Main Road
Southold, New York 11971
Re: Zoning Change
George Braun Oyster Co, Inc.
30840 Main Road, Cutchogue,New York 11935
SCTM No. 1000-103.00-01.00-001.000; 1000-103.00-01.00-002.000;
1000-103.00-01.00-003.000
Please be advised that we represent George Braun Oyster Co, Inc. in connection the re-zoning of
the company's property from General Business to Corridor Business (CB).
The company started over 100 years past as a wholesale/retail business buying aquatic good from
local fishermen, then selling the product to residents and restaurants, which it continues to this
day.
There are three (3) separate retail operations at the site: Sale of seafood to residents, sale of
prepared meals for consumption on site, and retail sale of non-seafood.
Retail use should be a permitted use in the proposed Corridor Business Zone, or the Zone should
remain General Business.
The proposed zoning change to CB Section 280-22 Corridor Business states, "The purpose of the
Corridor Business (CB) District is to provide non-retail commercial development outside hamlet
centers . . ." Hence, the George Braun Oyster Co. and other businesses similarly situated in such
a zone would become non-conforming uses.
Presently, there are no commercial operations in the proposed CB zone in Cutchogue, except for
Brauns, which engages in commercial and retail operation.
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Limiting retail establishments to the Hamlet Centers is short sighted because of the lack of public
sewage, code required parking requirements, and Health Department regulations prohibiting
retail operations at the small parcels of land in our Hamlets. The idea works well in theory if
you were to plan the layout of a new Town, but it does not work not in the historic Town of
Southold. For example, where would a retail operation like King Kullen locate in the Hamlet of
Cutchogue? With parking already a major issue in Cutchogue Hamlet, where would people park
vehicles if all retail operations were only located in the Hamlet? Where is the sewage being
treated for the proposed new retail operations in the Hamlet.
As you know, Southold Town is primarily a farming and resort bedroom community, as opposed
to our neighboring Town of Riverhead. I would hope that it is the goal of the Town Board and
the residents of Southold Town not to promote exclusively commercial operations along the
Main Road of Cutchogue. It would undermine the work and effort of our elected officials over
the last 185 years to maintain our rural community by purchasing development rights, restricting
development, cluster zoning,promoting farming and aquaculture, and all the other initiatives
over the years.
Further,the zone change would cause immeasurable financial harm to George Braun Oyster Co,
Inc., and the people it employs.
Please consider the above. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Very truly yt tirs
William C. Goggit
WCG/
CC: Zoning Update Advisory Committee
Albert J. Krupski, Jr., Town Supervisor
Mark Terry, Asst. Planning Director
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