HomeMy WebLinkAboutSoja, Martin and Ann 7.2025
Palmeri, Allison
From:mps3491@gmail.com
Sent:Monday, July 28, 2025 3:49 PM
To:Krupski, Al; Lanza, Heather; Noncarrow, Denis
Subject:CUTCHOGUE'S LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE
RE: PLEASE DO NOT CLASSIFY CUTCHOGUE’S LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE TO INDUSTRIAL
The draft zoning code proposes reclassifying Cutchogue’s Light Industrial zone to Industrial, allowing
developments like car washes, tanning salons, self-storage, utility plants, and cannabis dispensaries in
areas currently open farmland. This shift threatens the rural character of Oregon Road and contradicts
the town’s Comprehensive Plan. Industrial zoning would favor inappropriate commercial development—
like Riverhead’s Route 58—and all its traffic and congestion.
Will it create more jobs? Perhaps. However, Stonewall Storage replaced open land here with a facility
that created just no more than 2 jobs, highlighting the limited local benefit.
In addition, there is already a significant amount of previously built vacant commercial/industrial space
in this zone. Building more only compounds problems.
The town and county have spent millions of our tax dollars purchasing development rights along Oregon
Road. Allowing a business development on Oregon Road is completely at odds with that preservation
effort and expense that was designed to preserve this land.
The town may also argue that the draft code lists many permitted uses, not that they must or will be built.
However, once a business is defined as a permitted use, the town loses the right to successfully
challenge that use. Moreover, without controls to limit uses that would be destructive to the area, there
will be no legal recourse to protect Oregon Road. The time to prevent harm is now. Let's not waste the
funds and effort so many have contributed to preserving the buccolic environment. The remaining
farmland in the proposed industrial zoning district in Cutchogue should be rezoned to agricultural, to
preserve it as it is.
Let’s “Save What’s Left”!
PLEASE DO NOT CLASSIFY CUTCHOGUE’S LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE TO INDUSTRIAL!
Thank you,
Martin and Ann Soja
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