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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZoning Update Advisory Committee Minutes 2025_3_26 SOUTHOLD TOWN ZONING UPDATE Zoning Update Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes March 26, 2025, 3-4:30pm Attending: Patricia Kirkpatrick, Leslie Weisman, Bruce Nelligan, Erin Argo, Alvin Schein, Heather Lanza; Kevin Stuessi, Albert J. Krupski Jr., Julie McGivney, and members of the public Agenda overview • Refresh our memories as to the charge of this committee. • Plan for how we will operate going forward. • Overview of the organization of the draft code. • Identify topics and assign subcommittees to review those speciflc areas of the new code. A. Official Purpose of the Committee 1. Review and provide constructive feedback to the Town Board on the Draft Zoning Regulations. B. Establish a Plan for Committee Operations 1. Work in subcommittees to cover more material faster • Refresher on how committees work in Southold Town: Elected Officials are considered Liaisons to Town Board and Village Board, and are not technically voting members of the committee. Their role is to stay informed about the work of the committee and report back to their Boards. Therefore, they are excused from, and won’t be participating in, the subcommittee work. • That being said, there is nothing stopping our liaisons, Supervisor Krupski and Mayor Stuessi, from doing their own homework on the new code and bringing back anything they flnd to the group meetings. 2 2. Meet periodically as a group to review the work of the subcommittees Monthly meetings, but we can increase that as needed. Next Meeting: Thursday, April 24th at 3pm C. Overview of the Organization of the New Zoning Code 1. The Town Board Review Draft is not the draft we are going to review. 2. There will be some signiflcant changes from that to the Public Review Draft. 3. The Public review draft will be ready for review soon. Target Date: April 1st. If not then, shortly thereafter. 4. We can still review the organization of the code since that will not change. 5. One major intention of this new code is to make sure all legally existing businesses here now can stay with full rights to do so. The way we propose to do that is by having a new section in the non-conforming uses code that states this and doesn’t have the restrictions on expansion, nor will it the use be eliminated if it becomes dormant for any length of time. 6. Next, we reviewed the draft code posted online to look at its organization. a. Table of contents is great because you can click on an item and it will take you to the section. b. It also is a good place to start to see the organization. c. Ran through all the major sections. D. Identify Sections of the code to be examined in detail by Subcommittees 1. Deflnitions- see table on next page 2. Design standards/development regulations and process a. Residential – house size b. Non-residential (commercial, industrial) c. Lot coverage d. Parking e. Building size 3. Housing – see table on next page a. Accessory dwellings b. Higher density housing i. Community Housing Overlay ii. Other zoning districts 4. Hotels – see table on next page 5. Use Tables & Use-Speciflc Standards (everyone as they review their subsections) 6. Split-zones (reviewing map, data and ground-truthing) (Planning staff) 3 7. Zoning Map (everyone as they review their subsections) 8. Outdoor Lighting - see table on next page 9. Consistency with Southold Town Comprehensive Plan and Local Waterfront Revitalization Program – the consultant has the task to do this, and staff Table of Committee Members & Subcommittee Assignments: Subcommittee Topic Subcommittee Topic Alvin Housing Bruce Design Lighting Pat Housing Erin Deflnitions Hotels Agriculture Leslie Design Jeanette Hotels Megan Deflnitions Jim Design (residential) Mark Overall code, split-zones, LWRP consistency Heather Overall code E. Public input review period April-June – possibly into July 1. The ZUAC’s work will run concurrent with the public input review period. • We are planning May-June for a series of community engagement meetings including residents and business-focused meetings. F. Reviewing and incorporating public input 1. Plan for public input is to make a table with an entry for each comment Comment date & how received (e- mail, public meeting, etc. (date and how received) Response from Town: How we used the input and if not, why not. 4 2. Public input review period will likely run through end of June, maybe into July a. We can begin reviewing the input as it comes in, however we may need to wait until the end to flll in the second column. 3. This work may also be broken up into subcommittee work to review. G. Final recommendations to Town Board: late July target. H. Ideas for the code: 1. State something to the effect that the deflnitions in this chapter apply to this chapter only (?) so that any inadvertent or intentional differences in deflnitions in other chapters don’t cause problems or changes how something else is regulated outside of zoning. • Also need to search for any obvious confiicts in other code sections before this is flnished to see if they can be reconciled. 2. After Code adopted: Add Zoning FAQ’s to the Town website.