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Home My WebLink About1000-55.-6-15.1 RECEIVED NO¥ 3 !g8§ HERBI~,RT 442) Main Strut · G~enpo~, N~ York 1~44 Telephone: [51B] 0~05~ 31, ~986 I? FOR TION Town Bo~d Town of Southold Main Road, Town Sou~hold, NV 11971 Ref: Parcel-Sect. 55, Block 6, Lot J5.1 Ladies g Gent£emen, As the owner of the subject property, I ~sh to protest its projected zoning to R-80. The property is bounded by R-40 on (3) three sides and i~ one half mile from Hamlet Ce~. I respectiv~y ~equest the projected zoning for this parcel be ~ended to not more restrictive t~an R-40. HP, M/e9 cc; P~n~ing Board, Town of Southold WILLIAM D. MOORE Ii/',' . '":-.A /ii ~ ". / 'Iff ' January 26, 1987 Hon. Francis Murphy $outhold Town Supervisor and Members of the Town Board Town Hall Main Road Southold, NY 11971 RE: Master Plan and proposed zoning of Suff. tax # 55-6-15.1 (Mandel property on Boisseau) Dear Supervisor Murphy and Members of the Town Board: Enclosed please find a copy of the Suffolk County tax map of the above-referenced property. I would like it included with the written remarks which I submitted at the storm-shortened public hearing on January 22, 1987. I have highlighted the piece owned by Mr. Mandel in red and the proposed zoning for the surrounding properties in yellow. For the reasons set forth in the written comments, we believe that the R-40 designation is more appropriate than the R- 80 under consideration. We ask that the proposed zoning map be amended to include this property in the R-40 district. Very truly yours, William D. Moore Encs. cc: Herbert Mandel TOWN OF SOUTHOLD, MASTER PLAN PUBLIC HEARING JANUARY 22, 1987 MY NAME IS WILLIAM MOORE, AN ATTORNEY WITH OFFICES AT 370 TERRY LANE, SOUTHOLD. I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF HERBERT MANDEL, THE OWNER OF A THIRTY-EIGHT ACRE PIECE BOISSEAU AVE. AND YENNECOTT DRIVE IN COUNTY TAX MAP NUMBER IS 1000-55-6-15.1 OF PROPERTY LOCATED BETWEEN SOUTHOLD. THE SUFFOLK I AM THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF PROPERTY AND NOT ABOUT IN GENERAL.~" BEFORE JULY 1983 ALL PROPERTY LOCATED DISTRICT COULD BE DIVIDED INTO ONE ACRE LOTS. HERE TO SPEAK WITH RESPECT TO THE PROPOSED ZONING FOR THE MASTER PLAN IN THE A ZONING IN A SIMPLE BUT SWEEPING DECISION THE TOWN DECLARED THAT THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE IN THE A ZONE WAS INCREASED FROM ONE TO TWO ACRES. THIS DECISION WAS NOT A DECISION FOUNDED ON PRINCIPLES OF ZONING AND LAND USE. IT WAS A DECISION MADE AS A STOP POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE A EXACTLY ONE-HALF. THE MEASURE LOCATIONS OF A ZONED PROPERTY, FOR EXAMPLE, GAP MEASURE TO REDUCE THE ZONED PROPERTY IN THE TOWN BY DID NOT REFLECT THE VARIED PROPERTY LOCATED NEAR THE HAMLETS. IT RELATIVELY EASILY NECESSARILY GOOD WAS AN EFFECTIVE MEASURE BECAUSE IT WAS DONE BUT THOSE WHICH ARE MADE EASILY ARE NOT OR APPROPRIATE. IN THE MEANTIME, THE PROPOSED MASTER PLAN WAS BEING HAMMERED OUT AND WHICH IS NOW THE SUBJECT OF THIS HEARING. THE MASTER PLAN CAN BE COMMENDED IN SOME RESPECTS BECAUSE IT HAS BROKEN DOWN THE RELATIVELY FEW ZONING DISTRICTS THAT PRESENTLY EXIST INTO MORE DISTRICTS WHICH ARE SOMEWHAT MORE FINELY TUNED. THE PRINCIPLE WEAKNESS LIES IN THE ACCOMPANYING ZONING MAP WHICH DEPICTS HOW PARTICULAR PIECES OF PROPERTY WILL BE REZONED BY THE NEW PLAN. PRIOR TO THE 1983 ACRE LOT MINIMUM SIZE, COULD HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO ONE ACRE LOTS. THE PROPOSED ZONING STOP GAP MEASURE WHICH CREATED THE TWO THE PIECE OF PROPERTY OWNED BY MR. MANDEL MAP BEING CONSIDERED BY THE BOARD WOULD RETAIN THIS TWO ACRE MINIMUM. THE R-80 DESIGNATION FOR THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: FIRST: THE PROPERTIES IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY RANGE IN SIZE FROM APPROXIMATELY 14,000 TO 22,000 SQUARE FEET. IN FACT, THE PROPOSED ZONING FOR THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES LOCATED ALONG BOISSEAU AVE. AND YENNECOTT DRIVE IS R-40. MR. MANDEL'S PROPERTY ADJOINS BOTH OF THESE AREAS PROPOSED FOR R-40. THERE IS NO REASON WHY THIS PIECE SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE R-40 DESIGNATION. TO DIGRESS FOR A MINUTE, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN OBSERVATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED R-40 DESIGNATION. AT FIRST GLANCE, IT APPEARS TO BE A DESIGNATION CREATED TO- PROVIDE A GOOD MIX OF HOUSING NEEDS WHEN COUPLED WITH THE VARIETY OF OTHER HOUSING DESIGNATIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW DENSITY R-40 DEVELOPMENT WHERE DISTRICT IS TO PROVIDE AREAS FOR RESIDENTIAL EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS, WATER SUPPLY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS PERMIT THE FULL DEVELOPMENT DENSITIES OF APPROXIMATELY ONE DWELLING PER ACRE WHERE OPEN SPACE AND AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION ARE NOT PREDOMINATE OBJECTIVES. HOWEVER, UPON CLOSER EXAMINATION DESIGNATION HAS BEEN PLACED ONLY ON SUCH THE IT CAN BE SEEN THAT THE R-40 ALREADY IMPROVED LOTS. AS DESIGNATION IS ONLY A RECOGNITION OF THAT WHICH EXISTS, SMALL IMPROVED LOTS. THE DESIGNATION DOES NOT ADD TO THE HOUSING MIX AND DOES NOT CREATE THE VARIETY OF HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES NEEDED IN THE TOWN. WE NEED TO DESIGNATE SOME UNIMPROVED LAND AS R-40 TO PROVIDE A HOUSING MIX THAT CREATES A RANGE OF HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FROM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DISTRICT ALL THE WAY UP MINIMUM LOT BEING CONSIDERED FOR ROBINS ISLAND. TO THE 10 ACRE THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS APPROPRIATE FOR SUCH AN R-40 DESIGNATION. MR. MANDEL'S PROPERTY IS IMPROVED BY HOMES ON SMALL LOTS. TO THE HAMLET OF SOUTHOLD AND LOCATED WITHIN AN AREA PRESENTLY THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED CLOSE IS SERVED BY THE GREENPORT WATER DISTRICT MAKING THE R-40 DENSITY BOTH APPROPRIATE AND FEASIBLE. SECOND: THE PROPOSED MASTER PLAN INCLUDES A HAMLET DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS TO PERMIT A MIX OF HOUSING TYPES AND LEVEL OF RESIDENTIAL DENSITY APPROPRIATE TO THE AREAS IN AND AROUND THE MAJOR HAMLET CENTERS AND TO PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF LOWER COST HOUSING IN THESE HAMLET AND VILLAGE AREAS, WHERE PROVISION OF UTILITIES EXISTS MR. MANDEL'S PROPERTY IS LOCATED WITHIN SOUTHOLD AND AS SUCH SHOULD APPROPRIATELY DEVELOPED IN A TWO ACRE MINIMUM. WE ASK FOR ONE-HALF MILE OF THE HAMLET OF BE CONSIDERED AS PROPERTY TO BE DENSITY GREATER THAN THE PROPOSED INCLUSION IN THE R-40 DISTRICT THE HAMLET DENSITY DESIGNATION IN THE FUTURE AS PROPERTY CAN BEST BE UTILIZED FOR ONE-ACRE LOTS. SURROUNDING THIS PROPERTY AND ARE WILLING TO FOREGO A REQUEST FOR WE BELIEVE THE THE PROPOSED R- 80 DESIGNATION FOR THIS PROPERTY IS SIMPLY INCONSISTENT WITH THE THEORY UPON WHICH THE MASTER PLAN WAS BASED; NAMELY, THAT INCREASED DENSITY SHOULD BE PERMITTED AND ENCOURAGED IN THE HAMLET AREAS LEAVING OUTLYING AREAS UNDERDEVELOPED. WE, THEREFORE, REQUEST THAT THE TOWN BOARD REVISE THE PROPOSED ZONING MAP TO INCLUDE THIS PROPERTY IN THE R-40 DISTRICT.