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HomeMy WebLinkAboutParking on First St, New Suffolk Dennis & Diane Harkoff May 13, 2002 RESTAURANT Mr. Peter Hams Superintendent, Southold Town Highway Dpt. PO Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971 Fine Food, Spirits & Sports RE: Parking on First Street, New Suffolk Dear Nix. Harris: Sot thold Town Currently, we rent parking space for Legends' customers on the east side of First Street from the Raynors (Love Lane Acquisitions). Street parking has always been allowed in New Suffolk, but after we opened up in 1993 some of the commtmity was upset about cars being parked in the streets, too close to their driveways. They also were not pleased with the slightly haphazard way people tried to parallel park without the aid of curbs and painted lines to delineate the spaces. The Raynors offered us a parking area for our customers for what was originally a nominal monthly rent, but one that has crept steadily upwards over the years. As you may be aware, the Raynor' s future expansion plan shows that our leased parking area will be abolished. Although nothing has been approved yet, the community has already started voicing their concerns about "Where are people going to park7" and "What are you going to do about it?", etc. Well, we have ambivalent feelings about this whole parking saga. On the one hand, we absolutely relish the idea of not having to pay $400.00 a month for parking! On the other hand, our neighbors and our customers will be upset with the helter-skelter street parking that would ensue without a designated area, as they were when we first opened up in 1993. We would like to propose another idea, one that we think could be an amenable solution for both our neighbors and our customers, as well as for our pocketbook! Why couldn't the town make diagonal parking on that portion of our current parking area that is on town properly? The severity of the angle could be determined depending how many feet of town property lies beyond the paved road. Diagonal parking would certainly fit far more cars than parallel parking could offer and would certainly be more neat & organized looking. It might be a simple way to resolve everyone's problem. Remember, "for every problem there's a solution". Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and I trust you will), is to help me find the solution! If for any reason you find that my idea is not feasible, please provide an alternative proposal. We would love to hear more about it. Diane Harkoff /// P.O. Box 321 · 835~/frst Street ° New Suffolk, New York 11956 · Tel: 631-734-5123 · Fax: 631-734-2642 www.northfork.com/legends CC~ x/JBOSh Horton, Supervisor ermy Orlowski, Chairman Planning Board John Romanelli, Councilperson Craig Richter " Bill Moore Louisa Evans Tom Wickham "