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PARKS,r RECREATIONs. AND OPEN SPACE SURVEY
TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK
Prepared for:
TOWN BOARD
TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
NEW YORK
February, 1982
Prepared by:
WARD ASSOCIATES, P,C,
Landscape Architects, Architects, Engineers
PLANN IN G ASSOCIATES
Planning and Management Consultants
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ARD ASSOCIATE , FI. C.
Landscape Architects, Architects, Engineers
February 19, 1982
Town Board
Town of Southold
Main Road
Southold, New York ! 1971
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Park, Recreation and Open Space Survey
Town of Southold, New York
Gentlemen:
Enclosed is a report and mapping regarding the park, recreation and open space
amenities of the Town of Southold. This report is presented as an overview of the
various park districts, parks, and recreational opportunities of public and private
nature, and open-space preservation to date in the Town of Southold.
The report was complied through discussions with park district officials and by site
investigations of the various town and district-owned facilities. This report is
concerned with the overall planning and policy decisions regarding park, recreation
and open space and a summary of recommendations has been provided.
This report should be correlated with the socio-economlc update of the comprehensive
Master Plan for the Town, and Ward Associates, P.C. is available to coordinate this
effort. Ward Associates, P.C. wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Mrs. Judith
Terry, Town Clerk, for coordinating information requested; and the assistance of
Mr. Jack Sherwood, of the Assessor's Office, for researching park and school districts
and various public park properties in the Town.
We thank you for the opportunity to present this report, and we look forward to
assisting the Town with its' planning efforts.
Very truly yours,
Richard G. Ward
Board Chairman
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER LETTER
RECOMMENDATIONS
PARK AND RECREATION SERVICES
PARK DISTRICTS
Mattltuck Park District
Breakwater Park
Bailey's Beach Park
Wolf Pit Lake
Mattituck Creek Boat Launching Park
Aldrich Lane Park
Mattituck Park District Beach "Yacht Club"
Property
Veterans Memorial Park
Westphalia Avenue Park
Marratooka Lake Park
Bay Avenue Park ·
Cutchogue - New Sufl:olk Park District
Fleet Neck Beach
The Nassau Point Community Beach
Southold Park District
The Founders Landing Beach and Pavilion
Peconlc Lane Park
The Horton Point Lighthouse
South Harbor
Memorial Park
Sofskey Memorial Park
The Village of Greenport
Orient-East Marion Park District
Park District Overview
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Table of Contents (continued)
GENERAL TOWN PARKS
Laurel Lake, Mattituck
Mattituck Creek, Mattituck
Jackson Street, New Suffolk
Goldsmith Inlet, Peconic
Minnehaha Boulevard, Southold
Kenney's Road Beach, Southold
Horton's Lane Beach, Southold
Hashamomuck Beach, Southold
Main Road and Old Main Read, Greenport
Clark Beach, Greenport
Sound Road, Greenport
Beach Road, Greenport
Manhasset Avenue, Greenport
COUNTY PARKS
Goldsmith's Inlet, Southold
Peconlc Dunes Youth Camp, Southold
Cedar Beach Point, Southold
Inlet Pond, Greenport
STATE PARKS
Orient Beach State Park
Laurel Lake, Mattituck
SCHOOLS
PRIVATE RECREATION
PUBLIC RECREATION SERVICES
OPEN SPACE PRESERVATION
Suffolk County Farm Preservation Program
The Nature Conservancy
Department of Environmental Conservation
Zoning
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RECOMMENDATIONS
The following planning and management recommendations have been made as consider-
ations for the Town of Southold in developing the park, recreation and open space needs
for the Town. These recommendations are presented at this time as Ward Associatest P.C.,
has investigated~ compiled mappingt and visited existing park facilities. These guide-
lines should be correlated with the soclo-economic and land use planning of the Town
Master Plan updating. Therefore, quantification of facilities and future requirements
have not been addressed at this time.
Acquisition of park lands and significant open spaces: present public park land
is limited and additional population growth will overcrowd and over-use facilities
if not expanded and additional land purchased. Town should look to all alter-
native acquisition toolst including gifts~ purchase of land through tax abatement,
density zoning, and the stimulation of other agencies to acquire property~ i.e.,
Department of Environmental Conservation~ the County and State. This item should
be a major concern of the Town Master Plan update.
Consideration should be given to change park district boundaries and/or consolidate
park districts to be coterminous with school district boundaries. This would offer
common service areas to residents, better identity and understanding of districts,
and better coordination of school-park services.
Town should consider "Southold" Park and Beach Pass to encompass a coordinated
Park District effort to allow all Town residents to participate in Park District fac-
ilities at their choice rather than being limited to home districts. The fee for the
pass would be divided among all districts to compensate for the additional services
to be rendered.
Town should consider negotiations with local park districts to administrate and operate
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properties of Town-wide significance, in lleu of remaining as local park
district properties, i.e. ~ Horton Point Lighthouse ~4useum; parks at k4attltuck
Inlet; Nassau Point Causeway Park~ etc. These properties are of similar impact
as Hashamomuck Town Beacht Southold. These facilities are of significance to
all the residents of Southold Town. An interim solution to open these facilities
to the entire Town would be the Southold Pass concept.
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Town should consider a Department of Recreation and Parks with professional
leadership. This department would coordinate park district operational functions,
as well as Town-wide facilities, and would be the coordinator of other agency
cooperation. Local park district board members would be unsalaried and would
be advisory to the Department of Recreation and Parks. Savings could be estab-
lished in providing a central mobile maintenance crew to service all districts and
Town facilities under the Department of Highways, or the proposed Department of
Recreation and Parks.
Town should consider a central year-round recreation complex to serve the broad
based needs of the residents. Complex should include outdoor activities such as
a swimming pool, court gamest playground, plcnicking~ and a complement of in-
door activities. Possible long-range goal would be to expand Peconic Senior Youth
Center by merging with Peconic School when~ and if, school becomes surplus and
adding above outdoor complement of facilities. Outdoor swimming pool facility
could be self-supporting through user fees. Limited opportunity exists ~n the Town
for swimming pool use through private club-type facilities. Alternative is to have
combined public/private facility offering "Y" type use on public property through
lease arrangement.
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PARK AND RECREATION SERVICES
The Town of Southold is presently serviced by four park districts: Mattituckt Cutchoguet
Southold, Orient, and the Incorporated Village of Greenport. These districts encompass
the overall Town with the exception of the areas of Peconic and Bayview. Generally,
these park districts have developed to serve local areas and have been oriented to beach
and waterfront activities. The exception is Mattituck where a more diverse park land use
and facilities have been developed, and the Incorporated Village of Greenport. Another
layer of jurisdiction of park properties is the local area Home Owners Assoclations~ i.e.,
Fleet Neckt Nassau Point, and others~ who own and maintain mostly waterfront properties.
In addition to Park District facilities, the Town maintains general town parks open to all
residents of the Town. The attached map entitled "Park and School Districts, Town of
Southold" is at a scale of 1" = 2t000' and illustrates the public park and school district
boundaries.
PARK DISTRICTS
Mattituck Park District
The western most park d[strict~ Mattltuck~ has over the years been the most diversified.
Park properties include Breakwater, Bailey's Beach~ Wolf Pit Lake, Mattltuck Creek
Boat Launching~ Aldrich Lane~ Yacht Club Property, Veterans Memorlal~ Westphalia
Avenue, Marratooka Lake~ and Bay Avenue. The budget For the 1982 fiscal year
is approximately $80~000. The Park District is not coterminous with the Mattituck
School District No. 9. School District No. 9 encompasses the Mattituck Park District
and the Cutchogue- New Suffolk Park District. Besides the Mattltuck Park District~ the
Town is coordinating with the Mattituck Inlet Advisory Committee, whose recommenda-
tions for planning have an impact upon park and recreation land uses~ as well as open
space.
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Breakwater Park ~ located on the west side of Mattituck Inlet· is a
Long Island Sound Beach with parking area and rest room building.
Bailey's Beach Park is located on the east side of Mattituck Inlet.
There exists a Boy Scout cabin in the upland area.
Wolf Pit Lake is a small~ elongated .intermittent pond which accum-
ulates storm water run-off from the surrounding area. The pond has
been used for ice skating when weather permits.
Mattituck Creek Boat Launching Park is located along the North Road
at the head of Mattituck Creek. Parking is limited and expansion could
be considered for property parallel to the North Road and west of the
landing site. Access is by permit only and is limited to Park District
residents. Control is a problemt since its present parking capacity is
not economical to police.
Aldrich Lane Park is currently being developed for a night-lighted soft-
ball field. The property is adjoining and north of Laurel School.
Mattituck Park District Beach "Yacht Club Property" is located along
Peconic Bay Boulevard. The site is developed for a softball field with
night lighting, a parking area~ and beach. The small support building
and wood jetty are in need of repair. Adjacent to the property· on its
west side· is a Yacht Club building which gives the park its name.
Veterans Memorial Park · a Peconic Bay front park at the terminous of Bay
Avenuet Mattituck~ has a firemen's training facility~ storage and pavilion
buildlngs~ parking area~ picnic area~ play apparatus area~ a boccie court
and shuffleboard courts. The parking area needs paving and the wood jetty
needs repairs.
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Westphalia Avenue Park ~ in the central business district of Mattituck,
has potential for a sitting area and landscaped hamlet park.
Marratooka Lake Park is a parcel of land and pond along Main Road in
Mattltuck which has been preserved for open space and scenic use.
Winter ice skating, weather permitting, accounts For its most active use.
Bay Avenue Park is the site of an existing Little League fleld~ parking,
two tennis courts~ and a small wetlands area along James Creek.
Cutchogue - New Suffolk Park District
The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Park District is bounded on the west side by the Mat-
tituck Park District and on the east side by the Unincorporated Hamlet of Peconlc,
which is not within a park district. The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Park District main-
tains two bay front parks~ Fleet Neck Beach and Nassau Point Community Beach.
The budget for 1982 is approximately $24,000.
Fleet Neck Beach faces Cutchogue Harbor and is limited in size and parking.
The Nassau Point Community Beach is a parcel of considerable acreage and
beach front on Little Peconic Bay and wetlands areas on the west into Broad-
water Cove. The causeway, Nassau Point Road, divides the park and pro-
vides easy access. Parallel to the beach and off the causeway is a large
parking area. Future improvements would include court games~ formalized
picnic areat beach pavilion, and on the Broadwater Cove sldet nature area~
and possible boat launching and marina faciliHes.
Southold Park District
The Southold Park District is not coterminous with the Southold School District. The
areas of Bayview and Peconic are not covered by the Park District. This has caused
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some confusion with parking at Founders Landing Beach.
The Founders Landing Beach and Pavilion is the most used park facility
within the district providing bay swimming· plcnlcking~ refreshment stand·
basketball~ and pavilion for district use.
Peconic Lane Park - The district maintains several Little League base-
ball fields on private property· just north of the Peconic School, known
as Peconic Lane Park. Consideration should be given for acquisition.
The Horton Point Lighthouse property has been converted to a museum which
is administered by the Southold Historical Society. A resident watchman/
caretaker has reduced vandalism, rampant in the past. This museum is signif-
icant to the entire Town and is located on most tourism maps of Long Island.
South Harbor Park · located at the terminus of South Harbor Road with front-
age on Hog Neck Bay. The South Harbor Park has an unusable beach at Iow
tide· when shallow water exposes much of the bay bottom.
Memorial Park is the western entrance to the Hamlet of Southold. Here a
flag pole~ war memorial· and picnic area is provided. During the summer
season it is known for its floral display.
Sofskey Memorial Park provides another war memorial. This small parcel is
located in front of the Legion Hall on Main Road.
The budget for the district is approximately $37,500 for 1982, and most of the work
is performed under contracted services.
Village of Greenport
The Village of Greenport is an Incorporated Village iust to the east of the Southold
Park District. The Village park and recreation functions are parallel to the Town's
park district responsibilities. Within the Village, several small neighborhood
type park facilities are being planned and developed by the Village. The most
significant local public open space property in the Town is owned by the Village
of Greenport as watershed property, including Moores Woods, Silver Lake, and
the Boy Scout Camp. This property defines the westerly developed portion of
the Village. At the terminus of Manhasset Avenue is a Town waterfront park
and bay beach adjacent to Gull Pondt and a small Town-owned parcel on Beach
Road fronting on Stifling Basin.
Orient- East Marion Park District
East of the Village of Greenport is the Orient-East Marion Park District. The
district budget for 1982 is approximately $12,000. Truman Beach, Orient,
is presently leased by the Park District. Park is significant to overall Town. The
District also owns a parcel of property on the south side of Main Road, most of
which is wetlands. Consideration should be given to working with D.E.C. for
overall management of this and adjacent wetlands along Orient Harbor.
Park District Overview
Park districts have played an important role in the Town in being stewards of prop-
erty and economically administrating limited budgets to perform maintenance and
improvement functions. Consideration should be given to encompass the Bayview
and Peconic areas into the Southold Park District. This would provide park district
services to all residents of the Town, and would eliminate the need to administrate
separately to these general Town areas. Also, consideration should be given to
allowing non-district residents to use park facilities by paying a fee. For example,
this would allow a Cutchogue-New Suffolk Park District resident to also participate
in the Mattltuck Park District, if they so desired, by paying a fee. There will be
throughout the Town, since park district and school district boundaries are not coter-
minous, residents who would prefer to participate in activities in adjacent districts.
On an interim basis, until the areas of Bayview and Peconlc are included in a park
district, these areas could be allowed to choose an adjacent park district if they
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paid a fee comparable to the tax of the park district residents.
GENERAL TOWN PARKS
The Town of Southold operates and maintains general Town parks for useby all its
residents beyond the local park district or incorporated village parks. The following
listing of park properties indicates the location of the various Town-wide facilities,
see map attached "Park and School Districts, Town of Southold" for exact locations,
and recommendations for the continuance as Town-wide facilities, if the property is
significant for Town-wide use; or the disposition of said properties to local district
or village use where Town-wide significance does not exist.
Laurel Laker Mattituck
Access from Main Road and frontage on Laurel Lake. Property should be main-
rained for Town-wide use.
Mattituck Creek, Mattituck
Property fronting on Mattituck Creek, west of Park District boat launching along
North Road. If boat launching is feasible to expandt consideration should be given
to providing a Town-wide park.
Jackson Street, New Suffolk
Bay front park overlooking Robins Island is not significant as a general Town park.
Consideration should be given to transfer to a local park district facility.
Goldsmith Inlet, Peconic
Sound front property along west side of Goldsmlth~s Inlet opposite County Park and
should be maintained for Town-wide use.
Minnehaha Boulevard~ Southold
Hog Neck Bay and Corey Creek frontage~ mostly wetlands. Access poor for
Town park use. Consideration should be given to the Nature Conservency for
dedication, or local park district.
Kenneyls Road Beach, Southold
Site of winter storm damage of 1981, destroying most of beach area and under-
mining parking area. Stabilization efforts are underway.
Horton~s Lane Beach~ Southold
Property fronts on Sound and North Sea Drive an~l should be maintained as Town-
wide facility.
Hashamomuck Beach, Southold
Access along North Road provides for this most used Town-owned Sound front
bathing beach, and should be maintained for Town-wide use.
Main Road and Old Main Road, Greenport
Site of Chamber of Commerce information center for tourism in the area; property
should be maintained for Town-wide use.
Clark Beach, Greenport
Small parcel of Town-owned beach front on Sound~ surrounded by County Inlet
Pond Park. Consideration should be given to County or Village ownership; not
significant to Town-wide park use.
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Sound Road, Greenport
The terminus of Sound Road is a small Sound front beach area. Consideration
should be given to Village ownership; not significant for Town-wide park use.
Beach Road, Greenport
Small waterfront parcel on Stirling Harbor. Consideration should be given to
Village ownership; not significant for Town-wide use.
Manhasset Avenue, Greenport
Significant bay beach fronting on Gull Pond and Bay overlooking Shelter Island.
Park contains large parking area, pavilion and bathing beach.
COUNTY PARKS
Suffolk County has several park properties fronting on the Long Island Sound, and one
beach front on Peconic Bay. These properties are nature areas and preserves with the
exception of the Peconic Dunes Youth Camp.
Goldsmlth's Inlet, Southold
Located along Soundview Avenue, the inlet pond, and sound front beach is the
Goldsmith's Inlet Park, 34 acres of nature walks.
Peconic Dunes Youth Camp, Southold
Camp property on Sound with beach; 37 acres providing public youth camp facilities
to County residents. The 1982 camping season has been eliminated in the County
budget. Future use of camp is being studied.
Cedar Beach Point, Southold
This bay front property on Peconic Bay and Cedar Beach Creek contains signif-
icant wetlands and bay shore front.
Inlet Pond, Greenport
Property with read frontage on North Road and beach frontage on the Sound,
Clark Beach. The Inlet Pond County Park is mostly a nature area.
STATE PARKS
Orient Point contains the most significant State Park on the North Fork, Orient Beach
State Park. This site is the terminus of many summer tourist day trips and group bus out-
ings. The other State-owned property is Laurel Park, Mattituck.
Orient Beach State Park
This 357 acre peninsula fronts on Gardiner's Bay overlooking Shelter Island and
Plum Island. The park contains a food stand, bathing beach, picnic areas, play
field, nature walks, preserve, fishing and swimming areas.
Laurel Lake, Mattituck
State-owned property with access from Main Road and Frontage on Laurel Lake.
State should consider transfer of property to the Nature Conservancy along with
Town-owned parcel transfer to preserve these two contiguous parcels under proper
preservation management.
SCHOOLS
School Districts in the Town of Southold account for most field sports and are the prime
programmers of inter-scholastic, intra.-muralf and organized team sports. The community
identification is most aligned to the High School~ Mattituck, Southold, and Greenport.
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Earlier grade levels at Oysterponds, New Suffolk and the like are also centers of local
activities. The school plant comprises the most valuable public resource in the community.
Education and its counterpartt recreation services, have been centered at the schools for
most of the school-age children. Music, artt clubs~ and the seasonal sports program have
offered varied youth activities in the community.
Where school and park district boundaries are not coterminous, an effort should be mode to
change park district boundaries. Identification with park districts would then be unmistak-
able. Coordination of program and activities between districts would be automatic, without
exception of any resident.
School district properties should have a major emphasis upon providing team activities field
sports programs, i.e.~ football· soccer, baseball· softba · Little League· and elementary
schools should provide playgrounds and multiple-use field sports areas designed for the age
groups they serve.
PRIVATE RECREATION
The east end of the North Fork of Long Island, specifically, the Town of Southold, has evolved
a tourism industry of second homes and a summer vacation paradise because of its natural resources,
abundance of open space, farms· picturesque villagest and the ever-present waterfront. This
industry is second only to its local farming activitiest and may be actually equal or greater than
all other local industry when equated by the total of restaurants~ motels· second homes, marinas·
horse farms, equestrian centers, historic districts· museums, yacht clubs, golf clubs, fishing
stations, boating supply and sales, swimming pool clubs, tennis clubs~ rod and gun clubs, and
the myriad of other specialized clubs· i.e., chess, cards· and organizations, i.e.~ Audubon
Society· Nature Conservancy, Historical Societies, and countless others listed generally under
the headings of business, charitable, civic~ cultural, environmental, fraternalt religious· servicer
sports and hobbies, youth and senior. These properties and facilities have been identified on the
attached map entitled "Private Open Space and Recreational Facilities, Town of Southold'. This
map is illustrative of the matrix of privately-owned recreational-oriented facilities in the Town.
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The flourishing private sector has provided, through the market place in Southold Town,
a matrix of recreational and leisure time pursuits servicing a large portion of its residents
and seasonal residents. Considering the private market place for activities and services
in Southold Town, the public services are far less comprehensive. This does not necessitate
a need to dramatically expand the public sector, when private enterprise is providing desired
services. The public services should not be in competition with the services provided by
private enterprise.
PUBLIC RECREATION SERVICES
To complement private recreational services, the public park and recreation thrust should
be to identify areas of leisure time services not being provided, stimulate private develop-
ment of such needed services, and provide services to the community not available through
the private sector to residents with economic hardships, i.e., seniors on fix'ed income~ and
lower income families.
An example of the public agency assisting the private sector would be in developing marina
facilities. Often timest in a municipality's desire to satisfy a local need for additional mooring
slips, public marinas have been created. These generally have been at greater initial as well
as long-run costs~ because government is not in the marina business. In most casest it would
have been better for the municipality and local businesses~ if the public property had been
provided on a long-term lease to be developed by private enterprise. The trend today in the
public recreational field is toward "Contracted Services". Southold Town and its park districts
hayer over the years, administrated these responsibilities with a substantial use of Contracted
Services, i.e.~ having a local plumber~ electrician or carpenter on call for repairs and minor
improvements.
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OPEN SPACE PRESERVATION
The "Blue Line" concept of the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves , creating a
State controlled "forever wild" concept and restriction of development, is the most
permanent type of preservation legislation adapted to date in New York State. Less
than this approach is the matrix of State, County and local municipal and private efforts
to control growth patterns that we encounter on the North Fork of Long Island including
the Town of Southold.
The attached map, "Development versus Open Space, Town of Southolcl" illustrates the
present land use development of every type versus the undeveloped open space. This map
has been prepared from a 1981 aerial photograph source.
Suffolk County Farm Preservation Program
The Suffolk County Farm Preservation Program, Phase One, adopted, and Phase Two,
under consideration, is making a contribution to maintaining desirable farm properties
and open space. Ultimately, the question of farming versus development will be
settled by economic considerations, including viability of farming in the area to relate
to regional produce requirements, development pressures, taxes, and demand. The
Suffolk County Farm Preservation Program is a significant contribution to the preserva-
tion of open space and should be supported.
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy has acquired Four properties in the Town of Southoldt Howell
Meadow, Meadow Beach, Husing Pond Preserve, and Marratooka Lake Preserve. Howell
Meadow, Southold, is the last natural salt marsh on Goose Creek and of special interest
to those studying wetlands progression, and salt marsh flora and fauna. Meadown Pre-
serve, Nassau Point, is a beautiful salt meadow peninsula Formed by the lateral drift
along the west shore of Nassau Point in Peconic Bay. A small marsh pond with a stream
to Horseshoe Cove, and a pebbly barrier beach on the western side. An excellent class-
room For marine science and salt marsh study. Husing Pond~ Mattituckt was a gift from
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Miss Martha Husing. Originally a salt marsh~ now a fresh water woods complex~
providing cover for a variety of birds and animals. Marratooka Lake Preserve
along Main Road fronts on Marratooka Lake~ preserving fresh water wetlands en-
vironment and scenic open space within the Hamlet of MattJtuck. The preserve
is 10.64 acres.
These acquisitions and careful management by the Nature Conservancy are vital
pieces of the open space program within the Town of Southold.
Department of Environmental Conservation
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has jurisdiction
and control over development of public and private uses within 300 feet of high-
water in tidal areas and along fresh water ponds, lakes~ rivers and streams. Con-
sidering the waterfront community of the Town of Southold, this agency's overview
is significant. Permits for dredging, bulkheading, and any development within
300 feet of tidal or freshwater wetlands must be approved by D.E.C. The Depart-
ment also has a program of purchasing significant wetlands areas where develop-
ment may destroy and lose forever these valuable resources. Recent investigation
by D.E.C., through the coordination of the Mattituck Inlet Advisory Committee~
has the acquisition of wetlands on the east side of Mattituck Creek and south of
Bailey's Beach under consideration for purchase.
Zoning
Perhaps the most significant impact upon open space survival and the continuance
of the rural and scenic atmosphere of Southold Town is the Town Zoning Ordinance.
Although the existing patterns of commercial and industrial uses to date have not
abused the "Zoning" rights of the landt future development fram outside influences
could legally create greater density impact. This condition is apparent in the strip
commercial of the B-1 Zone~ which allows for construction of retail and business
uses in "strips", that is with no side yard requirements. This Zone, although approp-
riate to each hamlet's downtown commercial area, does not fit the character and
existing development pattern of the North Road, or sections of the Main Road out-
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side of the hamlets. Here one acre business development should reflect the
existing rural nature of individual property developments, not "Jericho Turn-
pike" of Nassau and Western Suffolk County where development is almost
continuous.
Obviously, the continuance of large track residendial, 1-acre and above, will
help maintain a controllable growth pattern. Large acreage tracks should be
encouraged to cluster residential development, leaving natural open spacet
woodland, marsh, and other unique habitats unspoiled. The Town could also
benefit by obtaining property in many areas of poor drainage of roads by en-
couraglng density zoning of adjacent properties with Iow lying areast whereby
the Town, in trade for property required for drainage, could allow clustering
of the remaining acreage to obtain the density of the original parcel.
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MARINAS
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HISTORICAL SITES
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