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Home My WebLink AboutLP-03/06/2007 LAND PRESERVATION COMMITTEE MEETING Minutes of Regular Meeting held Thursday, March 6, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. Members Present: John Sepenoski, Chairman Chris Baiz Lillian Ball Monica Harbes Michelle Zaloom Eric Keil (8:19 p.m.) Members Absent: Ray Huntington Also present: Melissa Spiro, Land Preservation Coordinator Melanie Doroski, Land Preservation Committee Secretary Al Krupski, Town Board Liaison Randy Parsons, The Nature Conservancy (7:28 p.m.) Commencement: ?? The meeting began at 7:10 p.m. with five LPC members present. ?? LPC welcomed Monica Harbes as their newest Land Preservation Committee member. Adoption of Meeting Minutes: ?? HOLD Adoption of LPC meeting minutes from February 20, 2007. Applications: ?? MOFFAT/WOLFE PROPERTY SCTM #: 1000-55-2-10.1 Zoned: A-C Location: 47775 CR 48, Southold CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 26.20 acres (GIS 25.66 acres) Subdividable: Yes SCTM #: 1000-55-3-6.1 Zoned: R-80 Location: 50100 CR 48, Southold Subdividable: Yes CPF: Yes Schedule Field Inspection. Tina Koslosky, who resides on the property, has requested that no one enter upon the property for an inspection without her knowledge. Any LPC member is to make their presence known to her at the house, or contact Melissa to arrange for an inspection. EXECUTIVE SESSION. The members entered into Started appraisal review [executive session]. Melissa Spiro reviewed appraisals prepared on the “farmed” property and the “waterfront” property. Both properties are for sale. LPC members find farm parcel, purchase of development rights, of more interest. Need further information from landowners as to their intentions regarding the property. ?? MARCO PROPERTIES SCTM #: 1000-97-9-10.4 Zoned: A-C Location: 3123 Skunk Lane, Cutchogue CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 10 acres (GIS 10 acres) Subdividable: Yes SCTM #: 1000-97-9-12 Zoned: A-C Location: 3595 Skunk Lane, Cutchogue CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 34.68 acres (GIS 34.23 acres) Subdividable: Yes SCTM #: 1000-98-1-1.3 Zoned: R-80 Location: 3375 Indian Neck Lane, Cutchogue CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 14.90 acres (GIS 14.2 acres) Subdividable: Yes SCTM #: 1000-98-1-2.1 Zoned: A-C Location: 1985 Leslie Road, Cutchogue CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 10.72 acres (GIS 10.8 acres) Subdividable: Yes SCTM #: 1000-98-1-27.1 Zoned: A-C Location: 4170 Indian Neck Lane, Cutchogue CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 78.34 acres (GIS 77.11 acres) Subdividable: Yes Tim Caufield to give update [executive session if potential offer discussed]. HOLD Tim Caufield unable to attend to give report. Presentation will be re-scheduled. ?? BITTNER PROPERTY SCTM #: 1000-58-1-1 Zoned: R-80 Location: 5415 Soundview Ave CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 23.41 acres (GIS 23.48 acres) Subdividable: Yes SCTM #: 1000-68-1-17.2 Zoned: R-80 Location: 4305 Soundview Ave CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 8.7 acres (GIS 8.7 acres) Subdividable: Yes SCTM #: 1000-68-1-17.3 Zoned: R-80 Location: 4305 Soundview Ave CPF: Yes Total Acreage: (GIS 25.7 acres) Subdividable: Yes Appraisal reviewed/offer reviewed [executive session]. Melissa Spiro gave overview of entire project bringing all LPC members up-to-state of status of project. Both County and Town have had appraisals prepared. Project proposed as 50/50 partnership with Town/County. Randy Parsons of The Nature Conservancy gave presentation of this significant, intact environmentally sensitive area, remaining on Long Island Sound and County’s position on partnering with Town for its purchase. There is the potential for federal grant money available providing an extension of an existing grant award is extended. Randy and Melissa are working on this extension. Melissa has requested an executive session appointment with the Town Board at their next work th session on March 13 and requested that all available members attend to promote this project in her absence. MOTION made by Lillian Ball, seconded by John Sepenoski, to make a presentation of this project to the Town Board at their work session on Tuesday, March 13, 2007, to allow Randy Parsons of The Nature Conservancy to proceed with purchase negotiations with the landowner based upon the County’s ETRB determination of a purchase price, with a 50/50 partnership with the County of Suffolk and the potential of the Town receiving a $1.5 million federal grant towards this purchase. Motion carried: 6/0 END OF EXECUTIVE SESSION ?? CONKLIN POINT ESTATES STANDARD SUBDIVISION SCTM #: 1000-53-4-44.1 Zoned: R-80 Location: 500 Kerwin Blvd, Greenport CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 7.72 acres (GIS – same) Subdividable: Yes Reviewed inquiry re: Subdivision Open Space parcel in pending subdivision. This standard subdivision is currently under Planning Board review. Landowners have offered to gift the subdivision open space to the Town of Southold. Melissa to keep LPC members apprised of status of subdivision. ?? PERINO PROPERTY SCTM #: 1000-122-7-9 Zoned: R-80 Location: 9300 Rt 25, Mattituck CPF: Yes Total Acreage: 20.82 acres (GIS 20.83 acres) Subdividable: Yes Property for sale – inquiry re: preservation. Melissa met with a potential buyer who is interested in preserving a major portion of this property if the Town will allow for an office along the Main Road and a buildable residential area preferably in the center of the lot. He has offered a potential purchase price for the easement. LPC members consider this project of low priority and would more likely give further consideration to this project if the potential buyer would offer the easement to the Town as a bargain sale. LPC members have directed Melissa Spiro to contact the potential buyer and see if his interest remains if an appraisal of this property does not support his purchase price per acre expectations for the easement area. Inquiries: ?? East Coast Residential Properties – inquiry from potential purchaser of development rights easement Potential purchaser raised several questions in e-mail concerning potential use of the property for nursery tree stock, Christmas trees, and the sale of U-pick trees. In response to questions raised, LPC members agreed that a barn or storage building could be constructed on the property provided it housed only equipment relating to the nursery, not landscaping equipment or such. Deer fencing would be allowed with LPC review and approval. No farmstand for retailing. Would allow for selling nursery tree stock produced on the property but not for selling any imported cut trees. Melissa to contact potential purchaser with LPC’s responses. General: ?? Question from Lisa Kombrink, Esq. re: LPC’s revision re: allowance for subdivision of PDR easement area. LPC had previously requested that Lisa Kombrink, Esq. revise LPC “template” easement to allow for subdivision of PDR land so long as such subdivision did not result in parcels less than 10 acres. Lisa requested additional information as to whether or not such 10 acre parcel must be all preserved land. LPC members made a decision to allow for the subdivision of PDR land provided that the resulting farm parcel would each result in an area of 10 or more acres of preserved land. ?? Year End Report - not completed in time formeeting. EXECUTIVE SESSION. The members re-entered into ?? Melissa Spiro’s confidential status reports [executive session re: status of offers] Confidential status report distributed to, and discussed, by Melissa and LPC members. END OF EXECUTIVE SESSION ?? Board of Ethics Determination re: Sepenoski John Sepenoski reported that the Board of Ethics determination regarding his disclosure of a family relationship to a potential LPC applicant would not create a conflict of interest provided he recuse himself from all discussions and decisions based on the family related applicant. Informational: ?? Land Preservation Seminar – March 8, 2007 – 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. LPC members requested to attend if available. John, Chris and Lillian plan to attend. Next Regular Meeting: ?? Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. The next regular meeting will be held on in the Town Hall Conference Room. Lillian will not be available for the scheduled April 10, 2007 meeting. Adjournment: ?? The meeting was adjourned at 9:50 p.m. by the six attending members. Respectfully submitted by Melanie Doroski, Land Preservation Committee Secretary