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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZazecki-Kowalski (Custer Preserve)Custer Preserve 1000-70-8-1 Baseline Documentation Premises: 100 Pine Neck Road Southold, New York 6.3181 acres Open Space Acquisition IRENE KOWALSKI, as Executrix of the ESTATE OF STEFANIA ZAZECKI to TOWN OF SOUTHOLD Deed dated August 30, 2000 Recorded September 14, 2000 Suffolk County Clerk - Liber 12070, Page 685 SCTM #: Premises: Hamlet: Purchase Price: Funding: CPF Project Plan: Total Parcel Acreage: Zoned: Existing Improvements: 1000-70-8-1 100 Pine Neck Road Southold $199,900.00 (per contract) Community Preservation Funds (2% land bank) Yes 6.3181 acres R-40 In August 2000 - farmland, no improvements DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY LAND The subject property is located at the southeast corner of Maiu Bayview Road and Pine Neck Road, being situated at Southold, Town of Southold, County of Suffolk, State of Next' York. The property is irregular in shape generally on grade and slopes downward to the easterly' property line. Main Bayview Road is a two lane, macadam surfaced roadway, as is Pine Neck Road. The land is vacant, cleared and possesses approximately 684 feet of frontage on Main Bayview Road and 315 feet on Pine Neck Road. The property contains an area of 6.00 acres. The plot size was ascertained Ir'om property card and tax map information. No survey was provided to the appraiser. Utilities available to the land include electric and telephone. Water and sewage disposal are achieved by means of on-site systems. Police protection is provided by the Town of Southold Police Department. Fire protection is available by means of an all volunteer force. LAND IMPROVEMENTS Nolle BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS None -'17- P R 0 P E R T Y V I S U A L S TAX MAP VIE W AVE. SOUTHOLD SCHOOL OISTR~CT NO 5 AVE. ? ¢ -42- · InielPoln fHOG NECK BAY ~ Jessuo ;~a,bor L I T T L E New Suffolk C PEC Robins Island ONI A Y GREAT State ,uth P E C 0 N I .~sport B A Y NO · Refug PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUBJECT PROPERTY View o£ subject looking south taken fi'om Pine Neck Road. View of subject looking southwest taken from Pine Neck Road. PttOTOGRAI'HS OF SUBJECT PROPEP, TY (Continued/ ] ] Viexx of snbject and Main Bayview Road looking southeast. View of subject looking east taken from Main Bayview Road. -5- PHOTOGRAPttS OF SUBJECT PROPERTY (Continued View of southerly portion of property looking east. View of Nlain Bayview Road looking north. E N V I R O N M E N T A L S U M M A R Y Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Pine Neck Road Property 1.O SUMMARY The subject property has been inspected and reviewed independently by Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, LLC in order determine if potential environmental or public health concerns are present. This report is intended to identify Recognized Environmental Conditions (as defined in ASTM Standards on Environmental Site Assessments for Commercial Real Estate and the Target Protocol) on the subject property based on the four (4) basic components of a Full Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA): records review, site reconnaissance, interviews and evaluation and reporting. The subject property lies in the Town of Southold, County of Suffolk, New York. The subject property is a 5.5 acre parcel of farmland which does not contain any structures. The property is located on the southeast corner of Pine Neck Road and Main Bayview Road. The property is more particularly deschbed as Suffolk County Tax Map # 1000-070-08-1. The subject property consists of 5.5 acres of land that is utilized as active farmland and fallow field. The northern half of the property is currently active farmland and the southern half the property is fallow field. A small farm stand is located in the northwest corner of property. No permanent structure is associated with this farm stand. An abandoned truck and a 55 gallon drum filled with water were located on the east property boundary. No staining was observed in the vicinity of the truck or dram. An 9ut parcel which contains the Custer Institute is located in the southwest quadrant of the property. This out parcel is not included as part of this report. No irrigation wells or associated well pump engines were observed on the subject property. An inspection of the property did not identify or observe any staining, residue, odors or stressed vegetation. An extensive government records search found no potential sources of environmental degradation on the subject property. Several Federal, State and County documented regulated sites were noted in the vicinity of the subject property. Specifically, an active LUST incident, several closed LUST and Spill incidents, as well as, two (2) PBS and one (1) RCRA Generator were identified in close proximity to the subject property. The active LUST incident which was identified to have impacted groundwater, is located upgradient of the subject property The remaining LUST and Spill incidents, and the PBS and RCRA Generators facilities are not expected to adversely impact the subject property, since they are either closed and/or located cross or down gradient. In conclusion, this assessment has revealed no evidence recognized environmental conditions in connection with the subject property, subject to the methodology and limitations of this report. The following recommendation is issued: 1. The abandoned truck and drum should be removed and properly disposed of. The area beneath the truck and drum should be inspected in order to determine of that no staining has occurred. MELISSA A. SPIRO kND PRESERVATION COORDINATOR Town Hall, 53095 State Route 25 P.O. Box 1179 Southold, New York 11971-0959 Telephone (631) 765-5711 Fax (631) 765-1366 DEPARTMENT OF LAND PRESERVATION TOWN OF SOUTHOLD TO: FROM: DATE: R~: Gregory F. Yakaboski, Esq. Town Attorney Melissa Spiro Land Preservation Coordinator February 14, 2001 Zazecki Estate to Town of Southold I made mt inspection of the above mentioned site on February 8, 2001. Please find the following: · Thc old vehicle has been removed. · The majority of the debris has been removed. · There is one small, old piece of non-powered farm equipment existing on the rear of the site. · There are a few pieces of farm equipment on the site. I'm assuming these arc to be used by thc fam~er in the coming season. Please let me know if you require any additional information. TOWN ATTORNEY's OFFICE TOWN OF SOU"I'HOID Pine Neck Road Property, Southold Phase I ESA FIGURE 1 LOCATION MAP / Precision Mapping, Copyright 1995,96 Just Sohworks 1nc, Por[ion$ Copyright 1992-1996 TRIUS,Inc Source: Precision Mapping, 1995-96 41 02' 17" FIGURE 2 Pine Neck Road Property, Southold Phase I ESA SITE MAP Pine Neck Road Active Farmland Fallow Field Source: NP&V NORTH + Page 9 of 25 Pine Neck Road Property, Southold Phase I ESA FIGURE 3 WATER TABLE MAP / 234 '53331 Source: SCDHS, 1999 Scale: 1" = 2 miles Toxics Targeting 1 Mile Radius Map Pine Neck Rd Property Southold, NY 11971 Suffolk C0unly E~ N PL/CERCLISIN YSDEC Inactive Hazan~ous Waste Disposal Site Storer. Disposer Solid Waste Hazardous Substance [~ Facili[y Major Oil ~ Storage Facility Site Major -- -- County / / line Neck \ ~roperty Toxics Targeting 1/2 Mile Radius Map Pine Neck Rd Property Southold, NY 11971 w+, Suffolk County (~ MTBE Gasoline Additive Spill Site Lccation Minor Roads Major Roads 1 Mile Radius 1/4 Mile Radius Waterbody County 1/2 0 1/16 1/8 1/4 1/2 Distance in Miles 1/4 f \,~\ Toxics Targeting 1/4 Mile Radius Map Pine Neck Rd Property Southold, NY 11971 N Suffolk County Pine Neck Rd Property Chemical Storage Faci~i[y Site Locab~ Minor Roads Roads I Mile Radius --= = 1/4 Mile Radius ~ Waterbody County Pine Neck Rd Property Toxics Targeting 1/4 Mile Closeup Map Pine Neck Rd Property Southold, NY 11971 Suffolk County E~r] N PL/C E RCL[S~N YSD EC Inactive Hazandous Waste DisposaJ Site * [] HazardousWesteTceater, (~ UTBEGasoline Storer, Disposer ' Addi~ve Spill ~ Storage Facilily ' ,~ Hazardous Facility*** ~ Generatofl Transp. 1/2 Mle Sear~ Radius P U B L I C H E A R I N G 4/25/00 21 29. -Moved by Councilman Murphy, seconded by Justice Evans, WHEREAS, tbe Land preservation Comnfittee has reviewed and reconu'nended the parcel of properly known as SCTM #1000-70-8-1 for acquisition under the 2% Commurfity Preservation Program; now, therefore be it RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby sets 5:07 P.M., Tuesday, May 9, 2000 as the time and place fore a public hearing on the purchase of the parcel knows as SCTM #1000-70-8-1, which consists of approximately 6.0 acres, located at the intersection Pine Neck Road and Main Bayview (adjacent to the Custer Institute) in the hamlet of Southold. The purchase price of $199,990.000. The purchase funds to come from the 2% Commm~ity Preservation Fund; and be it FURTItER RESOLVED that the Town Board hereby authorizes Supervisor Jean W. Cochran to enter into a conditional purchase a~:eement for the parcel known as SCTM #1000-70-8-1 prior to the public hearing as authorized by Southold Town Code Chapter 6 Section 6-28 (A). 29.-Vote of the Town Board: Ayes: Councilman Richter, Councilman Murphy, Councilman Moore, Justice Evans, Supervisor Cochi'an. This resolution was ADOPTED. LEGAL NOTICE C' NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS, HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 6 Section 6-28 (A), Community Preservation Fund of the Southold Town Code, the Town Board of the Town of Southold will hold a public hearing on the 9th day of May 2000, at 5:07 P.M., at the Southold Town, Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, on the question of the t. purchase of the parcel known as the Es~at~ of Stephania ZaZecki, identified as SCTM # 1000-70-8-1, which consists of ~ppro×imately 6L0 acres, located at the inters~:tion of Pine Neck Read and Main Bayview Road (adjacent to tb'e Custer Institute) ~n the Hamlet 6f Southold. The total purchase price is $199,990.00. FURTHER NOTICE I$ HERE~Y GIVEN that the file containing a more detailed description of the aforementioned parcel is available in the Southold Town Clerk's Office, Southo[d Town Hail, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, and may be examined by any interested persons during' normal business hours. DATED: April 25, 2000 BY ORDER OF THE SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD ELIZABETH A. NEVILLE SOUTHOLD TOWN CLERK PLEASE PUBLISH ON MAY It, 2000, AND FORWARD ONE (1) AFFIDAVIT OF PUI~LICATION TO ELIZABETH A. NEVILLE, TOWN CLERK, TOWN HALL, PO BOX 1179, SOUTHOLD, NY 11971. Copies to the following: Town Attorney Tow~, Clerk's Bulletin Board Estate of Stephania Zazecki Land Preservation Committee PUBLIC HEARING MAY 9, 2000 5:07 P.M. ON THE ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE ESTATE OF STEPHANIA ZAZECKI, SCTM #1000-70-8-1, PINE NECK AND MAIN BAYVIEW ROAD, SOUTHOLD. Present: Supervisor Jean W. Cochran Justice Louisa P. Evans Councilman William D. Moore Councilman John M. Romanelli Councilman Brian G. Murphy Councilman Craig A. Richer Town Clerk Elizabeth A. Neville Town Attorney Gregory F. Yakaboski SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: The next hearing is on the acquisition of property knows as the Estate of Stephanie Zazecki on Pine Neck and Main Bayview, and the public notice will be read by Councilman Richter. COUNCILMAN RICHTER: "Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 6 Section 6-28 (A). Community Preservation Fund of the Southold Town Code, the Town Board of the Town of Southold will hold a public hearing on the 9th day of May, 2000, at 5:07 P.M., at the Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, on the question of the pumhase of the parcel known as the Estate of Stephanie Zazecki, identified as SCTM #1000-70-8-1, which consists of approximately 6.0 acres, located at the intersection of Pine Neck Road and Main Bayview Road (adjacent to the Custer Institute) in the Hamlet of Southold. The total purchase is $199,990.00. Further Notice is hereby given that the file containing a more detailed description of the aforementioned parcel is available in thc Southold Town Clerk's Office, Southold Town Hail, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, and may be examined by any interested persons during normal business hours. Dated: April 25, 2000. Elizabeth A. Neville, Southold Town Clerk." There is a legal notice in the paper that I have, and correspondence from Mr. Ryan, John and Dorothy Rooney, another correspondence from Mary Ann Durkin, and it is posted on the Bulletin Board. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you, Councilman. You have heard the reading in relation to the acquisition of property on Bayview Avenue, Pine Neck, estate of Zazecki. Would anyone like to make comments to the Board? You have to come to the mike, and state your name. PH Zazecki 2 BAXTER TOWNSEND: My name is Baxter Townsend, and I would like to save Custer because every Saturday night we go to Custer, and so far I have seen Jupiter, Saturn, and I have a petition here that some of my friends and parents signed. We want to save Custer. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: It sounds like you enjoy yourself over there. Would you like to give it to us? Do you have anything else you want to add? This is Joe Townsend's daughter. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to address the Town Board? COLIN VAN TUYL: My name is Colin Van Tuyl, a resident of Greenport. I have been a member of Custer Institute for about twenty years, serving on the Board for several of those. We have hosted concerts, workshops, and public lectures on a variety of subjects. But, consistently throughout the years what really bring people out are astronomy, the opportunity to see for themselves the stars, and the lunar planets, the Milky Way. You have all seen the beautiful close-up photos of the planets sent back by the Voyager Spacecraft, as I have, but my most incredible view of Saturn is the first time I saw it with my own eye through a telescope at Custer. I enjoy photographing the night sky, constellations, comets, planets, and lunar eclipses. Taking pictures of the skies requires the camera shutter to remain open several seconds or even minutes. During that time the film is also recording any light pollution that happens to be present. This light illuminates air molecules, dust and moisture, and besides mining a picture it also diminishes the view through a telescope, binoculars or even the naked eye. My favorite observance sessions of night sky photos have been taken at Custer, because it offers a relatively dark site, and this past weekend's Astronomy Jamboree, our 21st annual, there xvere many telescopes from all parts of Long Island set up on the lawn, including one of the largest reflectors on the Island. It was brought out from Huntington by a regular at our events, who makes the trip out to take advantage of our dark skies, and share the view with lines of excited observers. Apparently our dark skies, and our window on the universe are now threatened by the potential development of land surrounding Custer. However, I was encouraged in reading some recent zoning legislation, which states, that the Town Board both hereby identify and adopt the following overall theme of one, preservation of farmland and agriculture, two, preservation of open recreational space, three, preservation of the rural, cultural, commercial, and historic character of the hamlets, and surrounding areas, four, preservation of natural environment, which derived from the shared vision held by the residents, and local public official residents of the town, and which are intended to encourage and preserve the existing high quality of life. These things go on to speak about relying on our scenic beauty and vistas, and clean air in promoting tourism and recreation, about residential hamlets that offer cultural activities set in an open or rural atmosphere accommodating growth and ch~ge without destroying the natural environment and the unique character and the way of life that defines Southold Town. IfI ask each of you to imagine an area for scenic vista that has been preserved I would guess that most have in your mind's eye a horizontal picture, a farm, a stretch of woods, a vineyard. (tape change) I ask you to keep this in mind as you decide how best to maintain the visual character and quality of the town. Your decision on the future of this property carries with it a significant impact on the future of Custer Institute by heading off its potential development you will be preserving more than farmland, more the legacy PH Zazecki 3 of Charles Elmer, Henry Fisk, and Alfred Dart. You will be preserving Southold's ability to offer to the public a unique and un-diminishing educational resource, a place where our local youth have an opportunity to learn and wonder, and where people of all ages can come to be inspired by the axvesome brilliance of a clear, dark, night's sky. Thank you. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you. Anyone else like to address the Town Board? DOUG HARDY: I don't have a prepared statement. I am Doug Hardy from Southold. I have been a member of Custer Institute since 1962, which personally qualified me as maybe the oldest continuous member. I am not past President. Custer and the Indian Museum are both rather remarkable institutions. They grew out of potato fields, and they have flourished since the 1930s, and they have drawn attention to this community for many years, at times nationwide, and there isn't a year that goes by that Southold Town isn't mentioned. So, my concern in speaking to you is to appeal to you, this is an investment in the future of this town. The fact that this land could be compromised by housing development not only would create light pollution, but create for homes that are built there a parking problem, because both institutions, the Indian Museum and Custer's great events that attract a great number of people particularly in the summer time, and there is a parking problem at times, and this ~vould then create the new homeowners, it would create constant complaints and so forth to the town over use, the public use, and there ~vould be constant combating between homeowners and the institution., The investment in this land now is a long vie~v. You are investing in the culture of this community, and I think money shouldn't be a concern. You have a unique package here, two institutions that have created a great deal of respect and honor to this community, and I hope that you would protect it. Thank you. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Anyone else like to address the Town Board? BOB VANSEN: Good evening, my name is Bob Vansen. I am a resident of Bohemia in Islip, and I have been a member of Custer for something over ten years, and an officer at Custer for about the last five. Just an unprepared kind of quick statement, as a child in the forties my first view of the sky was the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, the old Ziess machine. That was after a ridiculously long walk with a bunch of second grade kids took the east side of Manhattan over to the Hayden. It introduced to the world of astronomy something which I maintain an interest for the rest of my life, and only wish that in the 1960's, early 60's when I was actively working and building telescopes for myself at that time in Bethpage that I had a Custer Institute. I would have been here and joined it way back then. At the time that I was introduced to astronomy you could still go up to the Empire State Building on the observation..My mother happened to work in the building, so I used to get free fides on the elevator. You see fifty miles out to the horizon, and make things out. That happened years ago because of the urban air pollution that exists. Just recently about a week ago one of the TV shows, the PBS, there was a little mention of how sad it is that in many communities that literally the sky can no longer be seen, that the children growing up there don't know truly what a tree is in many communities. They don't have parks, etc., and as far as it was mentioned the emphasis PH Zazecki 4 that the Town Board is making towards saving farmland certainly helps guarantee that there will be trees, there will be nice growing things for future generations. I kind of think about the next millennium, a hundred years from now. What will be left then for anybody to use? The Custer Institute is right no~v about the last outpost on Long Island with good star vie~ving and is available on a rather regular basis. It is not as good as it once was, but it is still quite good to the point that a gentleman will go through the effort of building a thirty-two inch mirror for a telescope, so that he can bring it out to Custer, so that he can use and share it with others to do some very serious viewing. If any development occurs immediately around in these six or so acres as well pretension, as it might be, there is going to be light pollution. People are going to have lights on in the evenings. As a matter of fact, at Custer the Board is working on a plan to talk to those existing neighbors on the periphery of this six and a half acres, who occasionally on nights when we have a public affair, we have a lot of cars in the area instantly turn on all their back lights for a little piece of mind, I guess, and they want to kind of bring them into the Institute and show them that it is not something that they need to fear, but we would appreciate if they could keep that down, because it just helps to prove a situation. To have them hundred feet away, fifty feet away on some sides, just end something that started in the early 1920s. It is a club with some very notable scientific people being part of it over the years, and then formally becan~e the Institute, a not for profit organization that it is. It is a place both for locals and visitors, and a place for suburban people to come and view the sky. If we lose this it will all be indoors, and an artificial planetarium. Thank you. FRANK SAHIRALLI: Good evening, Supervisor Cochran and members of the Board. My name is Frank Sahiralli. I am a resident of Northport, and officially as of today also a resident of Mattituck. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Welcome to the town of Southold. FRANK SAHIRALLI: Thank you. I am very pleased to have you as my representatives. I would like to repeat, and reiterate, and remind you of the conversation that took place on May 25th when Doug spoke so eloquently on behalf of the Custer Institute and urged you at that time to consider with great seriousness the value of the land that surrounds Custer, which is at issue tonight. I will be brief, but I would like you to know that I talk this evening by proxy, and by authorization of 128 much more distance, but nevertheless concerned citizens of Long Island. This document, which they have authorized me to present to the Board urging you once again to acquire this land because of it's sensitivity and proximity to the Custer Institute, and the Indian Museum. Other individuals discuss one of the Board's real concerns about preserving land in perpetuity for the purpose of astronomy that is to say the encroachment of light pollution out here in Suffolk County, and I want you know that I along with many others are actively pursuing State level legislation to control light pollution. Of course, there is nothing to prevent Southold from introducing ordinances of it's own that are more strident, and I would urge you to consider doing, but certainly nothing less than what is being promulgated at the State level. Now that the New York State budget has disposed of we are hoping that the legislation, of which I spoke, would come out of the Environmental Conservation Committee, and make it to a vote, and I assure you that there has been a huge outpouring PH Zazecki 5 of letters, E-mail, phone calls to Senators Bruno, Marcellino, and the entire Environmental Conservation Committee of both Houses of the State of New York, and I have every reason to expect that New York State will pass the legislation, which is currently in committee. For that reason alone i think you have to admit that the Board's reservation for preserving the land around Custer has been disposed of. I think that we can reasonable expect that the land around Custer will continue to be of value to Custer in the future, and I urge you, in fact I implore you, I beg you, to salvage this land do it for the people that are assembled here tonight, many of whom I represent who could not be here because of the forum being inconvenience for them at five o'clock, but assure you that they would fill this room to overflowing, and be out into the street, and with your kind permission I will approach the dais and give you this. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Would anyone else like to address the Town Board in relation to the purchase of the land surrounding Custer Institute? DOUG GILLEN: Doug Gillen, and I am Secretary to the Board of the Custer Institute. I want to thank the Board for considering this, and my heart is filled with gladness because I am anticipating positive votes. I have speaking to lots and lots of people, and have referred to many and various media folks back to you guys. There is a lot of enthusiasm about Custer, and interest in Custer, and ;vhat is going to happen, and what will Custer be in the future. Councilman Moore and myself had a nice conversation, and one idea that came out was that to replace a facility like Custer would cost far, far more than the cost of this land, and that seems to be a theme that was resounding whether I am speaking to people from television news media, or people from local media, and up island media, that the cost for the acreage here is a bargain considering the facility and what it does. Once again, I want to thank you for the Town Board that saves Custer Institute, and I want to pledge our support, and in the past we had, and this another thing that Councilman Moore and I had discussed, that Custer had been a little bit of a sleepy place, and within the past year or so we have tried to reach out more to the tourist industry, and we had a wine tasting in conjunction with Macari Vineyards during Astronomy Jamboree last week. I know that Professor Lamaca had gone out to a vineyard with his telescopes. We have gone out with our telescopes. We want more of that, and you know Southold is famous for, in some regards, what it don't have, for example, fast food restaurants, and we should also be famous for what we do have, which is the darkest skies in the Metropolitan area, and I applaud your efforts, and I want to thank you for making this move to save Custer Institute. Thank you. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Anyone else like to address the Board? BARBARA LEBKUECHER: Madame Supervisor and members of the Town Board, my name is Barbara Lebkuecher. I live in Jamesport. I have been the Treasurer of Custer for twenty years. The previous speakers have all given you excellent reasons why Custer Institute should be preserved, so I won't reiterate all of that. I just want to give you my brief reason for pleading with you to save this wonderful place. I have traveled around the world. I have seen many eclipses in different foreign countries. I have traveled to other observatories and planetariums around the country, and in other countries, but PH Zazecki 6 nowhere have I ever come across a Custer Institute, and as far as I know there is no such place in the State o£New York, at least much less other places in our country. This is a very unique institution, as Doug pointed out to you, Doug Hardy, and Doug Gillan, and I think that is my reason for wanting to keep this place here and viable without those dark skies that Colin Van Tuyl talked about. We don't leave Custer Institute. The doors would be closed, and there would be no use for it, so my reason is because it is the most unique place you can find. Look at the history. Look at what we do for the community. Look at the people who come there, and the best reason of all to me, I think, was given by the very first speaker, young Miss. Baxter Townsend. I don't think you can get a better reason for keeping Custer Institute alive. Thank you for your time. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Anyone else like to address the Town Board in relation to the purchase of the land surrounding Custer Institute? BOB BENWARD: My name is Bob Benward, and just to let you know how important this is to me, and for a lot of other people here, I do not like speaking in front of people. I get to death and my knees shake. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: We are nice people. BOB BENWARD: I still get scared. I am a member of ASLI, that is the Astronomical Society of Long Island, and many of my members bring a lot of telescopes out to Custer. Custer and ASLI have been working together as two clubs for many, many years, and if my dues are still paid up I am probably still a member of Custer as well. Many members of ASLI are members of Custer, and many members of Custer are members of ASLI. We bring our scopes out. We are amateur astronomers. We come out to observe. Several years' back we had moved to another site. We are looking for a darker site. We went out to Peconic Dunes, and we found it wasn't so great so we did come back, but in the meantime we believe that we hurt Custer quite a bit, because those telescopes out on that lawn, on that side lawn, do bring quite a bit of the public to come to Custer, and many years ago I was a Board member of Custer, and I happen to be the Treasurer. I could see the numbers. I could see where the money was coming from. A lot of the money, a big share comes from the membership. The membership gave quite a bit, but a lot of the money, a lot of the money came from public, public donations, and the Jamboree that we do have once a year. But, those public donations came fi:om people, a lot of them came to Custer for the first time. They came out, looked at the telescopes, thought it was great, didn't know they could see a meteor in the sky. Many people from my neck of the woods, Huntington Station, never saw a meteor. I feel bad for them, because when I was a kid I grew up with them. I used to lie out on the lawn, and see tons of meteors. Many people now a days don't even know they can see them. Okay? The bottom line is my group, my club, we are amateur observers. We are going to go where dark skies are. I can picture houses around that side lawn. Okay? Maybe a nice beautiful split level, beautiful bay windows, and these lights pouring out of those windows at night. One thing I can guarantee you, if there are houses built around Custer my club and many other amateurs that bring telescopes to Custer will disappear. We love Custer, but we love our night skies. We will move on. We will find someplace else to go. Hence, Custer will lose a lot PH Zazecki 7 of their income. They are going to lose a lot of their public attraction. Let's face it, our telescopes are what brings the public in. People come to look through telescopes, and Custer does have one telescope in their dome, but on the outside we are talking sometimes ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five scopes, and with those scopes someone else mentioned is a thirty-two. That belongs to a friend of mine. My friend was in my basement, in my machine shop many, many days building parts for that telescope. I helped him build the grinding tools mid so forth~ He spent three years alone grinding that mirror, and he did that twice, because they broke the first time when he went to get it coated. Custer is a keepsake of Southold. Colin had mentioned several names of famous amateurs. One person he didn't mention was Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein used to come out to Custer, and spend his spare time out here, and in fact if Albert were alive today he would probably be standing where I am standing and making a case for dark skies for Custer. Light pollution may or may not sound like a terrible thing, but when you equate it to other things if we are talking about Shorehan~ and platinum floating overhead, we would jump up in arms. If you were talking about noise pollution we would jump up in arms. How many times have you heard a car driving down the street with bump, bump, bump, bump, we know how difficult it can be. Light pollution is another aspect, maybe not so ominous but it is another aspect, and all I can say is if you lose those amateur observers, all those telescopes in that front yard, kno~ving what I know about Custer's budget and losing that public input in funds I suspect that Custer may have to close it's doors several years down the road if they can't get funds from someplace else. Certainly the public attraction will be gone, and all I can do is ask the Board to really consider this that this is really for Custer's liability for the future, a nexv livelihood. Thank you. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you. You did very well for being scared to death. Thank you for your comments. I think I saw another hand over here. PAT MILFORD: I really hate to speak in public. My name is Pat Milford. My father was one of the founders. I have always known Custer Institute, and the one thing that I can tell you about Custer Institute, I know for a fact, that it is used. It is used all the time. I live across the street. I see cars. It is kept neat. It is kept up. The grounds are kept, and there are lots and lots of people. It is constantly used, and that is the most important thing, I think, that I can say. Thank you. RICHARD RYAN: Thank you, Madam Supervisor, members of the Board. My name is Dick Ryan. I am here as your Chairman of your Southold Town Land Preservation Committee, and the statement that I have is on their behalf, but I must say it pales in comparison to the eloquent expressions that came from the speakers before me. This map that you see over here is again a product of the efforts of our Town staff, and that red marked parcel there is obviously the subject parcel under discussion. The little white intrusion that you see there is the Custer Institute, and almost opposite of that, across the street to the west is the Indian Museum. This parcel currently is in agricultural production, and incidentally I should also mention that it is in ownership of the estate of Stephanie, I believe is how it is pronounced, Zazecki. This parcel currently in agricultural production is approximately six acres in size. It has comer frontage on the east side of PH Zazecki 8 Main Bayvie~v Road, and the south side of Pine Neck Road. The parcel is zoned R-40 residential, which permits single family residential development subject to consideration of other neighborhood open space, agricultural, and environmental conditions. The Haven Loam soil classifications of this parcel reflect it's high agricultural productivity. The parcel is significant for it's representation as an open space buffer between established residential development and the conduct of the activities of the neighboring Custer Institute, a highly regarded Iong established observatory. Similarly the operations of the Southold Indian Museum operated in conjunction with the New York State Archeologicat Society directly across from Bayview Road had been enhanced by the quiet presence of this six-acre open space. Preservation of this parcel for appropriate public community preservation purposes, such as protecting historic places, preserving open space agricultural lands and providing outdoor recreational opportunities, is harmonious with the intent and purpose of Chapter 6 of the Town Code, which established the Community Preservation Fund, enacted in 1998. The Southold Town Planning Board has been consulted and expressed no objection to the proposed purchase. The purchase price if $199,900 for the 6.0 acre track. The market value of this proposed purchase reflects in part, the development potential and location of the property. The value of the purchase is supported by an April 2000 appraisal, independently prepared by R.J. Matuza & Associates of St. James. A survey of the parcel will be accomplished and other terms should be subject to adoption by the Land Preservation Committee and the Town Attorney, prior to any completion of this proposed purchase. Because of its open space and agricultural value, its location in proximity to other existing historic cultural activities and its potential enhancement of the Towns sense of place, this property has a high eligibility for preservation. The Land Preservation Committee is unanimous in recommending this purchase for Community Preservation purposes. The purchase will serve to continue the integrity of two of the cultural gems, the Custer Observatory and the Indian Museum, special to the Hamlet of Southold, specifically and the Town of Southold, in general. On behalf of the Land Preservation Committee, I urge the Town Board to accept the offer of sale of this 6.0-acre parcel and to resolve to purchase fee title to the same pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 6 of the Town Code, entitled Community Preservation Fund. Thank you. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Would anyone else like to address the To~vn Board? TOM KETTERY: My name is Tom Kettery. I live in Huntington Station. I wasn't quite sure out oftowners were allowed to speak. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I just got finished telling you how nice we are. We just welcomed this gentleman to Mattituck. It is wonderful to have you out here. TOM KETTERY: My mom was here in 1937, and worked as a domestic, so I say this for her memory, too. Just recently some of the things that were said, but this environment you are blessed with is very unique. For which every reason, the reason is the stars above. Prior to the Civil War Henry Fitz was building telescopes here in Peconic. If you go down to Washington on the north side opposite the Air and Space Museum there is an PH Zazecki 9 exhibit on the ground floor. His shop is out there in Washington. His instrumentation is in Washington. You spoke about Einstein. Einstein sat in the east side of that room there many a night. Dave Rothman used to play music with him. The tradition just runs through. Last summer Bob Capalardo was here. I can count on my hands at least ten doctorates that grew out of Long Island in astronomy, all came through Custer. To me to deprive the young lady, Baxter, is her name? Last Saturday there was a little boy, a second grader, Barbara? You know Colin better than I do. He is from Greenport. They are unique in that the have an interest in the heavens, and one should deprive the essences, the magnificence of the sky out here, and what the gentleman said, when you lose that, and in deed you lose it without any consciousness. You will lose the essence of what Custer is. I come from Huntington, there is a line from Walt Whitman, and Saturday night I felt it with the moisture. One of his poems is what I heard a learned astronomer, and the last of it says, to ~valk out in mystical, moist night air to look up in perfect silence at the stars. You are really blessed to have stars out here. You should preserve as you preserve yourself from the fast food things that permeate in Huntington Station. Thank you for the time. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: I xvould like you to know, sir, that Walt Whitman taught school here before he went to Huntington. TOM KETTERY: Did he really? I did not knoxv that. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Prior to going up to Huntington. TOM KETTERY: Thank you very much. SUPERVISOR COCHRAN: Anyone else like to address the Town Board. (No response.) If not, we will continue on with our resolutions. Southold Town Clerk S E P U R C H A S E R E S O L U T I O N ELIZABETH A. NEVILLE TOWN CLERK REGISTI~AR OF VITAL STATISTICS MARRIAGE OFFICER RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER FREEDOM OF INFOI~VLATION OFFICER Town Hall, 53095 Main Road P.O. Box 1179 Southold, Ne~v York 11971 Fax (631) 765-6145 Telephone (631) 765-1800 OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK TOWN OF SOUTHOLD THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD HELD ON MAY 9, 2000: RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby issues a Negative Declaration pursuant to the SEQRA Rules and Regulations with respect to purchase the property known as the Estate of Stephania Zazecki, SCTM # 1000-70-8-1; and be it further RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby authorizes and directs Supervisor Jean W. Cochran to execute any and all necessary documents to purchase the property known as the Estate of Stephania Zazecki, SCTM # 1000-70-8-1 with funds from the 2% Community Preservation Fund at the purchase price of $199,900. Elizabeth A. Nevdle Southold Town Clerk May 9, 2000 Appendix C State Environmental Quality Review SHORT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FORM For UNLISTED ACTIONS Only PART i--~ROJECT INFORMATION {7o be comoleted by Applicant or Project sponsor) SEQ~ outhold Land Preservation CommitteeI Kow~lskk - Ope~ ~..~=~o~t¥ Tnvm nf ~nn'hhn!4 cou.w Suffolk S/E/C Main Bayview Road and Pine Neck Road, Southold SCTM #1000-070-08-001 5. IS PROPOSED AC~qCN: Purchase fee title for public open space preservation, provide recreational area enhancement and cultural resouce preservation, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 6 of the Southold Town Code, 7. XMOUNT aP '~,ND A ~F~'~_CT-~_:.~: 6 WILL PROPCSED ACT1CN COMPLY WITH -Z)3ST~NG ZONING OR O~'tE.R EXJST1NG LANO USE. RFE~,"TRIC'~.CNS? z~ Ye~ I_~ NO ;I NC, ~esc~be bdetly ~ixed neighborhood of residential, agricultural and cultural (Custer Institute and Southold Indian Museum) uses. , Approval of Southold To~n Board. [] NO l! ,fe~ ll~t a~enct' natae a~a pattnlt/~pl3tov-~J Approval to negotiate purchase. 0 ~,/n3,/nn If the action is in the Coastal Area, and you are a state sc. ency, complete the CoastaJ Assessment Form before proceeding with this assessment PART II--ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (To se completed by Agenc'!) None. None. PART III--DETERMINATION OF SiGNIF~CANC.c (To be completed by Agency) Check ~his box if you have identified one or more potentially large or significant adverse impacts which MAY occur. Then proceed directly to the FULL FAF and/or prepare a positive declaration. Check this box if you have determined, based on the information and analysis above and any suDoordncJ oocumentation, that ','he proposed ac:ion WILL NOT result in any sicJnificant adverse environrnen[s{ imoac;s AND provide on atlacnmems a= necessary, the reasons sucoordng this determination: Southold Town Board Jean Vl. Cochran C L O S I N G S T A T E M E N T CLOSING STATEMENT IRENE KOWALSKI as Executrix of the ESTATE OF STEFANIA ZAZECKI to TOWN OF SOUTHOLD Open Space- 6.3181 acres Premises: 100 Pine Neck Road, Southold, NY SCTM #1000-70-8-1 Closing held on August 30, 2000 Southold Town Hall, 55095 Main Rd, Southold Purchase Price of $199,900.00 (per contract) disbursed as follows: Payable to Estate of Stefania Zazecki $ 180,000.00 (8130100) Payable to Eastern Breezes Real Estate $ 19,900.00 (8/30/00) Expenses of Closing: 1999-2000 Real Property Tax Reimbursement Payable to Estate of Stefania Zazecki (8~30~00) (3 months @ $81.52/mo) $ 244.56 Appraisal Payable to R.J. Matusa & Associates, Inc. #? (paid in May 2000) $ 1,650.00 Survey Payable to Anthony Abruzzo, R.L.S. (10/24/00) $ 1,500.00 Environmental Report Payable to Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, LLC (11128100) $ 1,500.00 Title Report Payable to Commonwealth Land Title Insurance (8~30~00) Fee insurance $1117.00 Recording deed $ 85.00 Sewer Search $ 10.00 $ 1,212.00 Title Closer Attendance Fee Payable to Denise Burns (8~30~00) $ 50.00 Those present at Closing: Jean Cochran Gregory F. Yakabeski, Esq. Irene Kowalski Charles R. Cuddy, Esq. Joseph McCarthy Denise Burns Southold Town Supervisor Southold Town Attorney Seller Attorney for Seller Real Estate Broker Title Company Closer R.J, MATUZA ASSOCIATES, INVOICE R.J. Matuza & Associates, Inc. 10 Jefferson Avenue St. James, New York 11780 Town of Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road Southold, New York 11971 INC. File No 55--00 Invoice: 55-00 Dote: April 21, gO00 TO: APPRAISAL REPORT Property Identified As S/E/C Main BayvJew Road & Pine Neck Road Southold, New York SCTM #1000/70/08/001 Tax I.D. NO.: 1,650.00 1,650.00 lotok $ 1,650.00 557 Anthony Abruzzo R.L.S. Registered Land Surveyor 1700 Hortons Lane Southold, New York 11971 (631)-765-6242 Gregory F. Yakaboski, Esq. Town Attorney Town Hall, 53095 Rte. 25 P.O.Box 1179 Southold, New York 11971-0959 Date: August 16, 2000 Survey of property, (6.3181 Acres), on the Southeasterly comer of Bayview Road and Pine Neck Road, Southold, New York. District 1000, Section 70, Block 8, Lot 1. $1500.00 ,, Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, LI_C 57~Walt Whitman Road Phone: 6 427-5665 Melville NY 11747 Fax: 631-,4z7-5620 Property: 00243 Project: VAI45 Pine Neck Road Properties Manager McGinn, Steven To; Town of Southold Plannin~ Town Hall, 53095 State Rte 25 P.O. Box 1179 Southhold NY 11971 0959 Invoice Invoice #: 64 Invoice Date: October 31, 2000 MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO NELSON POPE &VOORHIS Invoice Amount $1,500.00 Professional Services for tile Period: 7/1/00 to 10/31/00 Prepare Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Specified Fee: $1,500.00 *** Total Project Invoice Amount $1,500.00 R E C O R D E D D E E D 120707 685 Number of pages' Serial Certificate Prior CIl fl TORRENS ~ECEIVEO REAL ESTATE SEP 1 4 2000 TRANSFER TAX SUFFOLK couN'rY _ ; .6542 _!l~,,~'i U' COUNTY Deed / Modgage hlstrument Deed / Mortgage ]';ix Slamp Recording, Filing Slamps 4 [ FEES Notation EA-52 15 (County) .~ Sub Total Comm of Ed 500 Certified Copy Other GRAND TOIAL Initials Real Property 'lax Service A ~ency Verification I)ist Section B lock 1000 070.00 08.00 Satislhctions/Discharges/Releases List Pre )erty Owners Mailing Addle RECORD & RETURN TO: GREGORY F. YAKABOSKI, ESQ. Southold Town Attorney 53095 Main Road, PO Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971 lransl'u, Fax I £:onsiderali(m A. mount 001 SEP 1 4 2~0 FUND ~ '['ille Colll[)auy Information Suffolk County Recording & Endorsement Page llfis page l'omts p~t of thc attached E x e c u t o r s D e e d (SPI!CII'Y 1 YPE OF [NSI R[/MEN I' ) IRENE KOWALSKI,as Executrix of th~ Estat~Fo~:,~,,,,= ....... Zaze~k~ Ihcp~cnfiscsheteinissituatedh~ NiJl:F()l K ('OUNq~', NI N~, h ( RK ¸FO THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD In thc l'ox~nship of S 0 U T H OLD II1 tile VII,LAGE or I IAMII~'I of SOUTHOLD B( )XILS 5 I 111(U 9 MUS I t~15 I YPI']) OR I'RIN I liD IN [31.ACK INK ONlfi/l'lLIOl( 1 ( ) I(1/t )RI )lNG ( )R 1'11 lNG (OVER) THISINDENTURE, madethe 30th dayof August , 2000 BETWEEN IRENE KOWALSKI, residing at 415A Pine Neck Road, Southold, Rew York as executor of /he last will and testament of STEFANIA ZAZECKI (,~ff 44- 1'2-D~ ~'~- IC'I~:~C~,~ , lateof Main Road. Southold, New York ,deceased, party of the first part, and THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD, a municipality having offices at 53095 Route 25, Southold, New York party of the second part, WITNESSETH, that the party of the first piti, by virtue of the power and authority given in and by said last will and testament, and in consideration of ONE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED and 00/100 ($]99,900.00) dollars, paid by the party of the second part. does hereby grant and release unto the party of the second part, the heirs or successors and assigns of the party of the second part forever, ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being In the SEE DESCRIPTION ANNEXED During the lifetime of Irene Kowalski and provided that she continues to reside at 415A Pine Neck Road, Southold, New York, this conveyance and any re-conveyance of all or part of the described premises shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 6, the "Community Preservation Fund" of the Code of the Town of Southold, and in particular to compliance with Article I §6-32 (Management of lands acquired pursuant to Chapter) sub-section A. (3) (open space) as that sub-section exists on June 1, 2000, with the parties, in addition, agreeing to limit any parking area to the south side and rear of the existing building on the adjoining lot, as shown on the diagram annexed hereto and made a part hereof. This paragraph shall be included in the Deed to be signed by both parties hereto, and its )rovisions shall be binding upon the parties, their successors, assigns or transferees. BEING AND INTENDED TO BE the same premises conveyed to the decedent and Frank 2azecki by deed dated 1/2/47 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on 1/13/47 at Liber 2667 Page 248 TOGETHER with all right, title and interest, if any, of the party of the first part, in and to any streets and roads abutting the above described premises to the center lines thereof; TOGETHER with the appurtenances, and also all the estate which the said decedent had at the time of decedent's death in said premises, and also the estate therein, which the party of the first part has or has power to convey or d spose of, whether individually, or by virtue of said will or otherwise; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the premises herein granted unto the party of the second part, the heirs or successors and assigns of the party of the second part forever, AND the party of the first part covenants that the party of the first part has not done or suffered anything whereby the said premises have been encumbered in any way whatever, except as aforesaid AND the party of the first part, in compliance with Section 13 of the Lien Law, covenants that the party of the first part will receive the consideration for this conveyance and will hold the right to receive such consJderafion as a trust fund to be applied first for the purpose of paying the cost of the improvement and will apply the same first to the payment of the cost of the improvement before using any part of the total of the same for any other purpose. The word "party" shall be construed as if it read "partle§" whehever lhe sense of this indenture so requires. ~ IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the party of the first part has duly executed this deed the day and year first above written, IN PRESENCE OF: TOWN OF SOUTHOLD t~d~ W. Cochran. Towrl Su[~ervisor ESTATE OF STEFANIA ZAZECKI Irene Kowalski, Executrix Form 3307 120707 '685 *F,..*., SCHEDULE A - DESCR~PTZON ALL [hat certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being at Pine Neck in the Village and Town of Southold, in the County of Suffolk, end State of New York, being more particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at · concrete monument set at the northwesteHy corner thereof and being at the point of intersection formed by the easterly line of Bay View Road and the southerty line of Pine Neck Road; and RUNNING THENCE in a general easterly direction along the southerly line of said Pine Neck Road south 69 degrees 43 minutes 20 seconds east a distance of 3[0.29 feet to the easterly line of the lands of Felix Stanklewlcz; RUNNING THENCE In a general southerly direction along the westerly line of the lands of ~aid Felix Sta~FJewicz south [5 degrees 26 minutes lO seconds west a distance of 200 feet; RUNNING THENCE In a general easterly direction along the lands of said Felix Stankiowlcz south 6g degrees 43 minutes 20 seconds east a distance of ~.00 feet to the westerly line of land now or formerly of John Breitstadt~ RUNNING THENCE in a genera southeriy direcbon along the said westerly line of land now or formerly of John Breitstadt south/.6 degrees 26 minutes [0 seconds west a distance of $96.02 feet; RUNNING THENCE in · general westerly direction along the northeHy line of lands now or ~rmerly of 3ohn BreJtstadt North 68 degrees 06 minutes [0 seconds west a distance of 406.02 feet to the easterly side of Bay View Road; P, UNNING THENCE In a general northerly direction along the easterly side of said Bay View Road the following two (2) courses'and distances: 1. North 19 degrees 57 minutes 30 seconds east a distance of 137.07 feet; 2. No,ch 2[ degrees 47 minutes 20 seconds east a distance of 2.72feet to the southerly line of lands of Custer Instl%ute, Inc. RUNNING THENCE along the lands of said Custer Institute, Inc. the following three (2) courses and distances: 1. South 69 dcgree~ 43 minutes 20 seconds east 150.30 feet; North 20 degrees [6 minutes 40 seconds east [10 feet; 3. North 69 degrees 43 minutes 20 seconds west ~.47.40 feet; RUNNING THENCE continuing in a general northeHy direction along the easteHy side of said Bay View Road the fotlowing four (4) courses and distances: North 2[ degrees 47 minutes 20 seconds east L2,gg feet; 2, North 3,7 degrees [3 minutes 00 seconds east [~2.46 feet; 3, North 9 degrees L3 minutes O0 seconds east 92,30 feet; 4, North 3.3 degrees ~! minutes 20 seconds east 279,28 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Title R. eport TO BE USED ONLY WHEN THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT tS MADE IN NEW YORK STATE State ef New York, County of S u f f o q k ss: State of New York, County of S u ffo[k ss: 'Onthe30thlayof August inlheyear 2000 Onfhe30thdayof August, intheyear 2000 before me, the undersigned, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, personaliy appeared Jean W. Cochr~ :iRENE KOWALSK! as Supervisor of the Town of Southold, personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence lo be the individual(s) whose name(s) is satisfactory evidence to be the individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to (are) subscribed to the within Instrument and acknowledged to me Ihet he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their me that he/she/Ihey executed the same in his/her/their capacily(les), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the capacity(les), and thai by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument t~he individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which instrument, the individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which the individual~al(s%~ 1 ~ ~ ¢~ ~[ clad, executed t in ument, the ]ndivil~ual(s)~ ~ 1 I[J[ I ['./~,O~ ~*acted' e~ecuted the instrument. (signat ureCad'd office ~i~di~duall taking acknowledgment) (signature and officer individual taking acknowledgment) DENISE F. BURNS MELANIE OOfl~KI Notary Public, State of New York NOTARY PUI~IC, Stlg~ o~ NY NO. 4805269 010~4~70,-~1t~ P.,~ty TO BE USED ONLY WHEN THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT tS MADE OUTSIDE NEW yORK STATE personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) that by his/her/tbeir signature(s) on the instrument, [he individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which the individual(s) acted, (signature and office of individu~l taking acknowledgment) SECTION EXECUTOR'S DEED BLOCK LOT Title Igo. COUNTY OR TOWN IRENE KOWALSKI, As Executrix STREET ADDRESS TO THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD STANDARD FORM OF NEW YORK BOARD OF ~ITLE UNDERWRITERS Distributed by Commonwealth Recorded at Request of COMMONWEALTH LAND TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY RETURN BY MAIL TO: E T I T L E P 0 L I C Y ISSIIED BY COMMON~/EKLTH LAND TITLE INSLIRANCE COMPANY Commonwealth OWNER'S POLICY OF TITLE INSURANCE SUBJECT TO THE EXCLUSIONS FROM COVERAGE, THE EXCEPTIONS FROM COVERAGE CONTAINED IN SCHEDULE B AND THE CONDITIONS AND STIPULATIONS, COMMONWEALTH LAND TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Pennsylvania corporation, herein called the Company, insures, as of Date of Policy shown in Schedule A, against loss or damage, not exceeding the Amount of Insurance stated in Schedule A, sustained or incurred by the insured by reason of: 1. Title to the estate or interest described in Schedule A being vested other than as stated therein; 2. Any defect in or lien or encumbrance on the title; 3. Unmarketability of the title; 4. Lack of a right of access to and from the land. The Company will also pay the costs, attorne3rs' fees and expenses incurred in defense of the title, as in~ured, but only to the extent provided in the Conditions and Stipulations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, COMMONWEALTH LAND TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY has caused it~ corporate name and seal to be hereunto affixed by its duly authorized officers, the Policy to become valid when countersigned by an authorized officer or agent of the Company. Secretary COMMONWEALTH LAND TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY By: President EXCL,USIONS FROM COVERAGE The following matters are expressly excluded from the coverage of this policy and the Company will not pay loss or damage, costs, attorneys' fees or expenses which arise by reason of: 1. (a) Any law, ordinance or governmental regulation (including but not limited to building and zoniug laws, ordinances, or regulations) restricting, regulating, prohibiting or relating to (i) the occupancy, use, or enjoymenl of the land; (ii) the character, dimensions or location of any improve- ment now or hereafter erected on tbe land; (iii) a separation in ownership or a change in the dimensions or area of the land or any parcel of which the land is or was a part; or (iv) environmental protection, or the affect of any violation of these laws, ordinances or governmental regula- tions, except to the extent that a notice of tile exfforcement thereof or a notice of a defect, lien or encumbrance resulting from a violation or alleged violation affecting the land has been recorded in tile public records at Date of Policy. (b) Any governmental police power not excluded by (a) above, except to tbe extent that a notice of the exercise thereof or a notice of a defect, lien or encumbrance resulting from a violation or alleged violation affecting the land has been recorded in the public records at Date of Policy. 2. Rights of eminent domain unless notice of the exercise thereof has been recorded in the public records at Date of Policy, but not excluding from coverage any taking which has occurred prior to Date of Policy which would be binding on the rights of a purchaser for value without knowledge. 3. Defects, liens, encumbrances, adverse claims or other matters: (a) created, suffered, assumed or agreed to by the insured claimant; (b) not known to the Company, not recorded in the public records at Date of Policy, but known t6 the insured claimant and not disclosed in writing to the Company by the insured claimant prior to the date tile insured claimant became an insured under this policy; (c) resulting in no loss or damage to the insured claimant; (d) attaching or created subsequent to Date of Policy; or (e) resulting in loss or damage which would not have been sustained if tbe insured claimant bad paid value for the estate or interest insured by this policy. 4. Any claim, which arises out of the transaction vesting in the Insured the estate or interest insured by this policy, by reason of the operation of federal bankruptcy, state insolvency, or similar creditors' rights laws, that is based on: (a) the transaction creating the estate or interest insured by this policy being deemed a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer; or (b) the transaction creating the estate or interest ins~:red by this policy being deemed a preferential transfer except where the preferential transfer results from the failure: (i) to timely record the instrument of transfer; o~ (ii) of such recordation to impart notice to a purchaser for value or a judgment or lien creditor. NM 1 PA10 ALTA Owner's Policy (10-17-92) Form 1190-1 Face Page Valid Only If Schedules A and B and Cover Are Attached Common e l SCHEDULE A File No.: RH80002430 Amount of ~nsurance: $199,900.00 Date of Policy: 8/30/2000 Policy No.: RH80002430 Name of Znsured-' TOWN OF SOUTHOLD The estate or interest in the land which Is covered by this policy is.' Fee Title to the estate or interest in the land is vested in: TOWN OF SOUTHOLD By deed mede by ESTATE OF STEPHANZA ZAZECK/ ~ to the INSURED dated 8/30/2000 and to be recorded In the Office of the Clerk/Register of SUFFOLK County. The land referred to in this policy is described on the annexed Schedule A - Description. Countersigned: Authorized Officer or Agent Fee Policy Insert N0.405 File No,: RH80002430 P.4×5 SCHEDULE B Exceptions from Coverage This policy tines not insure against loss or damage (end the Company will not pay costs, attorneys' fees or expenses) which ari~ by reason of the following; ~., Rights of tenants or persons In possession. Survey made by Anthony Abruzzo R.L.S, last dated 8/28/2000 shows vacant land a) surveyor locates proposed parking area, No other variations. Policy excepts all unpaid water, sewer and/ar street frontage charges, Company does not perform searches for same, Fee Policy [nsert AUG.30.2000 2:I?PM ~ ~ M0.405 P.3/5 File No,: RH800024~0 SCHEDULE A - DESCR]:PT]:ON ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being at Pine Neck in the Village and Town of Southold, In the County of Suffolk, and State of New York, being more particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a concrete monument set at the rlorthwesterly comer thereof and being at the point of Intersection formed by the easterly line of Bay View Road and the southerly line of Pine Neck Road; and RUNNING THENCE In a general easterly direction along the southerly line of said Pine Neck Road south 69 degrees 43 minutes :20 seconds east a distance of 310.:29 feet to the easterly line of the lands of Felix Stankiewlcz; RUNNING THENCE In a general southeHy direction along the westerly line of the lands of said Felix Stanklewicz south 16 degrees 2_6 minutes 10 seconds west a distance of 200 feet; RUNNING THENCE in a general easterly direction along the lands af said Felix Stankiewir7 south 69 degrees 43 minutes 20 seconds east a distance of 100 feet to the wes~edy line of land now or formerly of John Breitstadt; RUNNING THENCE in a general southerly direction along the said westerly line of land now or formerly of.lohn Breitstadt south 15 degrees 26 minutes 10 seconds west a distance of 595.02 feet; RUNNING THENCE in a general westerly direction along the northerly line of lands now or formerly of John Breitstadt north 68 degrees 06 minutes lO seconds west a distance of 406.02 feet to the easterly side of Bay View Road; RUNNING THENCE in a general northeHy direction along the easterly side of said Bay View Road the following two (2) courses and distances: 1. North 19 degrees 57 minutes 30 seconds east a distance of 137.07 feet; 2. North 21 degrees 47 minutes 20 seconds east a distance of 2.72feet to the southerly line of lands of Custer Institute, Inc, RUNNING THENCE along the lands of said Custer Instituter Inc, the following three (2) courses and distances: 1. South 69 degrees 43 minutes 20 seconds east 1E0.30 feet; 2. North 20 degrees IG minutes 40 seconds east 110 feet; 3, North 69 degrees 43 minutes 20 seconds west 147.40 feet; RUNNING THENCE continuing in a general northerly direction along the easterly side of said Bay View Road the following four (4) courses and distances: 1, North 21 degrees 47 minutes 20 seconds east 12.99 feet; 2. North 17 degrees 1:~ minutes O0 seconds east 152,46 feet; 3. North 9 degrees 13 minutes O0 seconds east 92.30 feet; 4. North 13 degrees 11 minutes 20 seconds east: 279.28 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Fee Policy Insert Common File No.: RH80002430 STANDARD NEW YORK ENDORSEMENT (OWNER'S POLICY) ATTACHED TO AND MADE A PART OF POL.ZCY NO. RH80002430 ISSUED BY COHHONWEALTH LAND TITLE INSURANCE COHPANY The following is added to the Insuring provisions on the face page of this policy: "5. Any statutory lien for services, labor or materials furnished prior to the date hereof, and which has now gained or which may hereafter gain priorI~ over the estate or Interest of the insured as shown in Schedule A of this policy," The following Is added to Paragraph 7 of the Conditions and Stipulations of this policy: ~(d) If the recordin(J date of the instruments creating the Insured interest is later than the policy date, such policy shall also cover intervening liens or encumbrances, except real estate taxes, assessments, water charges and sewer rents." Nothing herein contalned shall be construed as extending or changing the effective date of the policy unless otherwise expressly stated. This endorsement, when countersigned below by a validating signatory, is made a par~ of the policy and Is subject to the Exclusions from Coverage, Schedules, Conditions and Stipulations therein, except as modified by the provisions hereof. Dated: 8/30/2000 Issued at: Commonwealth Land Title Znsurance Company 3,77 Old Country R~ad~ PO Box 419 Rlverhead~ NY 11go3. Authorized Officer Standard New York Endorsement (9/1/93) For Use With ALTA Owner's Policy (10/17/92) TQ10037NY (7/99) CONDITIONS AND STIPULATIONS 1. DEFINITION OF TERMS. The following terms when used in this policy mean: (a) "insured": the insured named in Schedule A, and, subject to any rights or defenses the Company would have had against the named insured, those who succeed to the interes~ of the named insured by operation of law as distinguished from purchase including, but not limited to, heirs, distributees, devisees, survivors, personal representatives, next of kin, or corporate or fiduciary successors (b) "insured claimant": an insured claiming loss or damage. (c) "knowledge" or "known": actual knowledge~ not constructive knowledge or notice which may be imputed to an insured by reason of the public records as defined in this polio3, or any other records which impart constructive notice of matters affecting the land. (d) "land": the land described or referred to in Schedule A, and ~mprovcments affixed thereto which by law constitute rea] property, lhe term "land" does not include any property beyond the lines of the area described or referred to in Schedule A, nor any right , title, interest, estate or easement m abutting streets, roads, avenues, alleys, lanes, ways or waterways, but nothing herein shall modify or limit the exten~ Io which a right of access to and from the land is insured by this policy. (e) "mortgage": mortgage~ deed of trust, trbst deed, or other security instrument. (I) "public records": records established under state statutes at Date of Policy for thc purpose of imparting constructive notice of matters relating to real property to purchasers for value and without knowledge With respect to Section I(a) (iv) of the Exclusions From Coverage, "public records" shall also include environmental protection liens filed in the records of the clerk of the United States district court for the district in which the land is located. (g) "unmarketability of thc title": an alleged or apparent matter affecting the title to the land. not excluded or excepted from coverage, which would entitle a purchaser of thc estale or interest described in Schedule A to be released from the obligation to purchase by virtue of a contractual condition requiring the delivery of marketable tiHc 2. CONTINUATION OF INSURANCE AFTER CONVEYANCE OF TITLE. The coverage of this policy shall continue in force as of Date of Policy in in the land, or holds an indebtedness secured by a purchase money mortgage given by a purchaser from the insured, or only so long as the insured shall have liability by reason of covemmls of warranty made by the either 6) an estate or interest in the hind, or (ii) all indebtedness ~ecurcd by 3. NOTICE OF CLAIM TO BE GIVEN BY INSURED CLAIMANT. B 1190-1 (c) Whenever the Company shah have brought an action or inlerposed a defense as required or perm}tied by the provisions of this policy, the Company may pursue any litigation to final determination by a court of competent jurisdiction and expressly reserves the right, in ds sole discretion. to appeal from any adverse judgment or order (d) In all cases where this policy permits or requires the Company to prosecute or provide for thc defensc of any action or proceeding, the insured shall secure to the Company the right to so prosecute or provide defense in lhe action or proceeding, and all appeals therein, and permit the Company to use, at its option, the name of the insured for this purpose. Whenever requesled by the Company, the insured, al the Company's expense, shall give the Company all reasonable aid (i) in any action or proceeding, securing evidence, obtaining ,altnesses. prosecutmg or defending the actmn or proceeding, or cffectmg scUlement, and {ii) m any other lawfid act which in the opinion of the Company may be necessary or desirable to establish the title to the estate or interest as insured If Ihe Company is prejudiced by the failure of lhe insured lo furnish the required cooperation, lhe Company's obligatmns to lhe insured raider Ibc policy shall lerminate, including any liability or obligation Io defend, prosecute, or continue any litigation, with regard lo the mailer or malters requublg such cooperation. 5. PROO, F OF LOSS OR DAMAGE. In addition to and after the notices required under Section 3 of these Conditions and Stipulations have been provided the Company, a proof of loss or damage signed and sworn to by the insured cia}maul shall be furnished ~o the Conlpany within 90 days after the insured cia}maul shall ascertain the facts giving rise to Ihe loss or damage. [he proof of loss or damage shah describe the defect in, or lien or encumbrance on the title, or other mailer insured against by this policy ~hich constitutes the basis of loss or damage and shall state, to the extenl possible, the basis of calculating the amount of the loss or damage If Ihe Company is prejudiced by the failure of the insured claimant to pro;}de the required proof of loss or damage, the Company's obligations to the insured under the policy shall terminate, including any liability or obligation It) deli:nd, prosccule, or continue any lit}gal}on, with regard to tile mailer or matters requiring such proof of loss or damage. In addition, the insured claimant may reasonabl), be requited It) submit such reasonable times and places as may be designated by any aulhotized Dale of Policy. which reasonably pertain to the loss or damage Further, if All hlformation designated as confidential by Ihe insured claim;mi pro;idcd TERMINATION OF LIABILITY. in paragraphs (b)(i) or (ii), the Company's obligations to the insured under 7. DETERMINATION, EXTENT OF LIABILITY AND COINSURANCE. This policy is a contract of indemnity against actual monetary loss or damage sustained or incurred by Ihe insured c]aimani who has suffered loss or damage by reason of matters insured against by this policy and only to the extent herein described, (a) The liabildy of the Company under this policy shall not exceed the least of: (ii thc Amount of Insurance stated m Schedule A; or, (ii) the difference between Hie value of Ihe insured cslate or inlerest as lien or encumbrance insured against by this policy (bi In tile event the Anlount of Insurance stated in Schedule A at the Date of Policy is less than 80 perccnl of the xalue of thc instHed estate or interest or the full consideratiou paid for Ibc land. whichever is less, or if Polic~, is subject to Ihe following: insured estate or interest at Date of Polio); or Tile provisions of this paragraph shall iici apply 1o cosls, attorn%s' lees and expenses for which tile Company is liable under this polic3, and shall only apply to thai portion of any loss which exceeds, in the aggzegale, il) 8. APPORTIONMENT. If tile land described in Schedule A consists of l,xo el more parcels which are not tlsed as a siuglc sile, and il loss is established afl~cting one or by thc Cotnpany and thc insured at thc ti]nc el Ibc issuance of lids po]icy 9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. 10. REDUCTION OF INSURANCE; REDUCTION OR TERMINATION OF LIABILITY. 11. LIABILITY NONCUMULATIVE shall be ieduced b) any amount tile Company may pay under any polk'> insuring a mortgage to which exception is taken in Schedule B or lo x~ hich 12. PAYMENT OF LOSS. NM 1 PA 10 ALTA Owner's Policy (10-17-92) Form 1190.3 Cover Page ORIGINAL (Continued) (bi When liability and the extent of loss or damage has been definitely fixed in accordance with these Conditions and Stipulations, the loss or damage shall be payable within 30 days thereafter. 13. SUBROGATION UPON PAYMENT OR SETTLEMENT. (a) The Compan~r's Right of Subrogation Whenever the Company shall have seltled and paid a chdm under this policy, all right of subrogation shall vest in the Company unaffected by any act of the insured claimant The Company shall be subrogated to and be entitled to all rights aud property m respect Io tile claim had this policy nol beeu issued If Company all rights and zenledies against ail), person or propert> neccssaD in order lo perfect this right of subrogation The insured clain/anl shall fbi Tile Conlpany's Rights Against Nondusured Obligors Unless prohihited b5 applicable lay,, edher the Company or lilt' msuled Title lusutance Arbitration Rules 15. LIABILITY LIMITED TO THIS POLICY; POLICY ENTIRE CONTRACT. (bi An), claim of loss o~ damage, 'Mlethe~ or nol based on negligcncc, this policy (c) No amendment of or endorsement lo this policy can be made validating officer or authorized signatory of tile Company 16. SEVERABILITY. lU the c~ent any proxisioll of the polic5 is held invalid or unenJ~w~cablc under applicable la~, thc policy shall be deemed nol to include that 17. NOTICES, WHERE SENT. addressed Io COMMONWEAl ;I'H I_AND TITLE INSURANCE COMPANh5 101 Valid Only If Face Page, Schedules A and B Are Attacneo NEW YORK STATE OFFICE 655 Third Avenue New York, New York10017 Phone:(212) 949-0100 OWNER'S POLICY TITLE IRSURANCE OF AMERICAN La. 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Town of Southold. 100 Pine Neck I~d - . ~ Parcel 70.-8-1 E:,embtfs/ Spec Dist J~ Ownerisl Gi,s Site {1) Corn Sale08/30/OC 47388~1 Southold Acti'.'e R/S:8 RoJlYear: 2809 Next Y! I~unicpl palk Lend Size: 5.50 am'es Igwne! TaxBi f,.dailing.o, aores* Total 1 3rd Part.u ,~',ddress ~ ank Owners- To open. click the applopf~ale few Lasl I~ar,',e / Company Town ol Southold ,a, tter~tlon To / In C:ale Fire I'l arne School Southeld School Land AV: 1.500 TotaIAV: 1 ,§00 [Riaht Click Io Addl JvJJ: r S~reet N,: Pretix Dtr Streel Rural Route: St Sufti×' Post Dir: UnltName: Unit Ho 53895 ~ Route 25 Po Bo',.: No: Cit~, Town State Zip Code: 1179 Southold NY 11971- Country: enter ii no( 'USA" ~,ar Co 3wnership: e.g Lite us¢~ O,,,.,,ner Type: P -- PdmaJ'y 10 F 5 OR. AVE. ........ · .......... J./~-~t~% COUNTY OF SUFFOLK (~ ~ ~,2.%:,~ ,,~,,0~ SOUTHOLD ~ SECT,ONNO i .................... -.,.... ~;~.%%Reol Property lox Servce Agency M A N A G E M E N T P L A N Management Plan for the Custer Preserve Main Bayview & Pine Neck Road : Southold, New York INTRODUCTION On August 30, 2000, the Town of Southold acquired title to approximately 6 acres of property located on the comer of Main Bayview Road and Pine Neck Road, Southold (SCTM#1000-70-8-1) from Stephania Zazecki, for $199,900 (2% CLP Funds). DESCRIPTION The property is located in the hamlet of Southold, on the comer of Main Bayview Road and Pine Neck Road. The property is approximately 6 acres of fairly flat grasslands that was farmed until 2000. The properties surrounding the site are comprised of residential homes, with the excel~lion of the Southold Indian Museum and Custer Institute. The property is often referred to as the Custer Property because it surrounds the Custer Institute, a non-profit educational corporation that was established by a group of amateur astronomers and scientist. For a number of years prior to the Town acquiring the land, the Board of Directors of Custer Institute had requested that the area around the Custer Institute be preserved. Lights from homes, if the property were developed as a residential subdivision, would have threatened the site as an astronomical observatory. There are no threatened ~ endangered species on the property and no wetland is found on the site. The property had been farmed for over 65 years but has recently reverted to grasslands, since the small farming operation ended in 2000. The Town of Southold brash hogged the property in 2001 and 2002 to keep the site fi.om undergoing the natural progression to a shmbland. CULTURAL HISTORY The Zazecki family has fanned this property and they had a small farm stand located ou the comer of Main Bay View and Pine Neck Road. A wide variety o f fresh vegetables were sold at the stand and to local markets. The Custer Institute had its roots long before it was formally established. Charles W. Elmer, co-founder of the Perkin-Elmer Optical Company and an avid amateur astronomer and scientist would invite and meet with his astronomy friends, including his future partner Henry Perkins, in his home at Cedar Beach, most every weekend. Finally, in 1927, this group of friends decided to formalize their camaraderie and shared interest by establishing an astronomy organization. Charles Elmer's wife May, whose maiden name was Custer, was the Grand Niece of General George Armstrong Custer. To honor the many years she dad been their gracious hostess at their weekly informal gatherings, this newly organized band of amateur astronomers chose to call themselves the Custer Institute. In 1938, the group pumhased the land the institute presently occupies and construction of the main (northern) building was begun. The new Meeting place was completed in the spring of 1939. In 1942, the Custer Institute, Inc. was incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation. In 1945, the southern second building, later dedicated in 1954 as the Dr. John W. Stokes Hall in honor of this long time member, was added with its seating capacity of 100+. It was at this time that (~uster Institute began an aggressive schedule of both astronomy related and cultural presentations for the public. This tradition continues today with a number of events scheduled at Custer throughout the year. In 1947, through donations by Charles Elmer m~d Mr. Polk, the 3-story tower and dome were built. SITE CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT GOALS The property was purchased to protect the Custer Institute Observatory from being compromised from the possible development of homes on the site. The Town of Southold was also interested in preserving the agricultural use of the property. Several ideas have been proposed for the site include the following: 1. Leasing the property for agricultural uses, as deemed appropriate by the LPC 2. Establish a Southold Town Nursery (street trees and native planting for Town roads and parks) 3. Create a Community Garden 4. Plant a wildflower strip 25' around the perimeter 5. Allow the property to revert to a grassland/shrubland and eventually to woodland. A nature preserve, with native plantings, walkways "pocket park". 6. A combination of the above Currently there is no well on site and many of the proposals above would be limited by the lack of water for imgation. MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Until the LPC establishes a long-term management plans for the property, the Southold Town Highway Department will mow the site once a year to prevent the property from turning into a shrubland. CONCLUSION The Custer Preserve has the potential to provide the community with an agricultural vista and small farming opportunity, in the hamlet area. Southold Land Preservation Committee Stewardship Proposals Project Site: Custer Preserve Land Preservation Committee Meeting of: July 1, 2003 Proposal: See attached Yes No Hold Comments: .~.aymond-Blu m,/~h air m~an Southold Land Preserva[ion Committee Date: Custer Preserve Main Bayview Road Southold, NY A PROPOSAL FOR THE INSTALLATION OF AN IRRIGATION WELL, WATER TANK AND SUPPORT BUILDING In thc Management Plan for the Custer Preserve, I outlined several ideas that were put forward by the Southold Land Preservation Committee, the Peconic Land Trust and the Southold Tree Committee. In May 2003, the Southold Tree Committee planted several rows of small "street" trees and a 15' wide strip of wildflower mix along Main Bayview & Pine Neck Road, as highlighted on the attached map. The Peconic Land Trust has indicated a willingness to explore the feasibility of creating a community garden anal the Southold Tree Committee would like to expand its "Town Nursery" and develop a native plantings garden however, both of these proposals would require the availability of water. I have received price quotes for the following: Well & Expansion Tank $5,500 Tool Shed (10' X 10') $1,500 Electric Service $5,000 8' Fence around tank ~ $ 300 Irrigation Hose & Fittings $1,500 Total $13,800 I would recommend a budget of $15,000 to implement this project, with fimding from the Community Land Preservation Fund - Stewardship. 11610 Main Bayview Road Southold, N.Y. 11971 March 4, 2002 Ms Melissa A Spiro Land Preservation Coordinator Town of Southold Southold Town Hall 53095 State Route 25 P.O. Box 1179 Southold, N.Y. 11971-0959 MAR - 4 20O2 DEPT. OF L~ND Dear Ms. Spiro: It was a pleasure to meet with you this past Wednesday, February 27, to discuss the usage of the former Zazecki property that surrounds Custer Institute. 1 appreciate the opportunity to provide input into the decision that will eventually take place regarding that section of land. As we spoke, it would, of course, be ideal, if Custer could have the use of the entire property, to eventually create an "astronomy park", within the concept of a grassy "observing lawn". If this were not possible, we discussed some very realistic options, including the usage of the "proposed p,arking area" as listed on the survey, as well as an additional approximately 50' East and 100'North of the existing Custer property. We are certainly interested in assisting to maintain the rural character of Southold Town, as well as continuing to provide a valuable and unique service to the community through the Custer Institute, and will cooperate in any way possible towards those ends. I look forward to meeting with you again, and possibly also with your committee, to further continue our dialogue. Sincerely, Charles Cardona Custer Institute Liaison to the Southold Town p.s. 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Elizabeth A. Neville Southold Town Clerk RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Albert Krupski Jr., Councilman SECONDER: Vincent Orlando, Councilman AYES: Roland, Orlando, Krupski Jr„ Wickham, Evans, Russell Generated September 24, 2008 Page 40 MELISSA A. SPIRO LAND PRESERVATION COORDINATOR melissa.spiro @ town.southold.ny.us Telephone (631) 765-571 I Facsimile (63I) 765 6640 OFFICE LOCATION: Town Hall Annex 54375 Stale Route 25 (comer of Main Road & Youngs Avenue) Southold, New York MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971-0959 TO: FROM: DEPARTMENT OF LAND PRESERVATION TOWN OF SOUTHOLD Supervisor Russell Town Board Melissa Spire Land Preservation Coordinator RE: Town Owned Open Space property known as Custer Preserve (Acquisition name Zazecki) SCTM # 1000-70-8-1 Request from Custer Institute to use property for event DATE: September 19, 2008 Custer Institute, which is located adjacent to the Town-owned property known as Custer Preserve, has requested use of part of the preserve on August 7th, 2009. Custer is celebrating the 400~h anniversary of the first scientific studies (by Galileo) using a telescope. The request is for use of the south field next to Custer Institute for a tent and port-a-potties, for an estimated 200 people to be brought to the site via jitneys, with others to arrive by car. The Land Preservation Committee Members, in accordance with Chapter 185 (Open Space Preservation) of the Town Code, reviewed the request at the September 16th Committee meeting. The property was purchased in 2000, with funds from the Community Preservation Fund. Although not clearly stated in the Town's purchase resolution, the property was purchased primarily to preserve the land around the existing Custer Institute from any additional light pollution. It was understood at the time of purchase that Custer Institute would use part of the property for individual telescopes during celestial events and for parking purposes; the survey from the time of purchase shows a 140' x 200' parking area to the South of Custer Institute. The Land Preservation Committee recommends that the Town Board allow the request to use the properly for tent and port-a-potties so long as all activities occur within the 140' x 200' area to the south of Custer Institute. In addition, Custer Institute must comply with any other applicable requirements required by the Town (event permit, liability insurance, etc.) cc: Town Attorney A E R I A L S S U R V E Y PROPOSED PARKING AREA Survey of Described Property Sitnated at Southold Town of Southold, Suffolk County, New York District 1000 Section 70 Block 8 Lot 1 Certified To: The Town of Southold . Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co~npany Title Number: RH8000-2430 Revised Certification, Added Proposed Parking: August 28, 2000 N/F DONAHuE ANTHONY ABRUZZO R.L.S. REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR 1700 Hortons Lane Southold, New York 11971 (631 )-765-6242 SURVEYED: August 9, 2000 Scale: I" ='80' File No. 2447