HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/03/2005 Southold Hamlet Stakeholders Committee
Minutes of the Meeting of March 3, 2005, Southold Library
Present: Sue Fisher, John May, Rich Mullen, Buddy Johnson, John Rooney, Marian Salemo, Tom
McCarthy, Don Wilson, Leslie Weisman, Guest: Valerie Scopas
The meeting was called to order at 6PM. Leslie Weisman taped a number of maps of Southold that she had
obtained from Patrick Cleary on the walls of the community room for all the members to review, especially
the HALZO zone, Hamlet Center, land use and zoning maps. John Rooney added a
conservation/preservation map of the North Fork.
Leslie distributed copies of the edited version of the Hamlet Study Summary provided by Phillip Beltz.
Several typos and minor changes were suggested and noted. She will forward them to Phillip. Leslie
explained that Patrick Cleary will, in the near future, be distributing a much longer final report, and that all
committee members will have a chance to review and comment on it in detail before it is finalized and
submitted to the Supervisor and Town Board. After we have each read and red-line that report, we will meet
again as a group to reach consensus about and possible changes, additions, etc.
Leslie also handed out an outline of the 11 slides with bulleted points she will be using to present the
committee's recommendations to the Town Board when that meeting is re-scheduled. She briefly updated
the committee on the "dress rehearsal" meeting that she attended with all the other Hamlet committee
presenters on Feb 22, 2005. Several members were interested in working on inter-hamlet issues after the
completion of our current committee charge.
The rest of the meeting was devoted to discussing the boundaries of the HALO Zone. Using one of the large
maps on the wall, Tom McCarthy was most helpful in reviewing the use and ownership of each parcel along
both the north and south sides of Route 48 from Laurel Avenue on the east to Ackerly Pond Road on the
west. He also pointed out all the parcels that were already preserved as open land. After an extensive and
thorough discussion about the pros and cons of including the lots on either/both sides of Route 48 in
the HALO Zone, the committee agreed to run the northern edge of the HALO Zone behind the lots
that front on the South side of Route 48. There is one large agricultural parcel that is an exception to this
because, although it fronts on Route 48, it can also be accessed by an existing interior residential road. The
committee consensus was that preserving route 48 as a high speed bypass road with no further development
was important to our community and to the other hamlets. As such, we recommend avoiding more curb cuts
and traffic access that could slow down the flow of cars along Route 48.
When Valerie Scopas arrived, we reviewed and marked with colored markers, every piece of land that could
potentially be developed for affordable housing (at V4 acre zoning) within the following HALO Zone:
NORTH: behind the lots fronting the South side of Route 48; SOUTH: Behind the lots fronting the South
side of Route 25; WEST: Laurel Avenue (west side); and EAST: either Ackefly Pond Road (east side).
From this exercise we were able to do a rough calculation of the total acreage and, multiplying that by 4, the
rough number of possible hosing units that could potentially be created. We discussed the pros and cons of
stopping the westem boundary at Tuckers Lane instead of Ackefly Pond Road. By 9:30 PM we were still
unable to reach consensus about which road to use as the westem boundary, but we all agreed the best way
to make this decision was to know the actual developable acreage within the smaller and then larger areas
and the number of potential housing units that could be created in each scenario. Leslie agreed to ask
Valerie Scopas (who had to leave around 8:30pm to retum to another meeting) to make the actual
calculations for our committee and report back on the results.
The meeting adjoumed at 9:45PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Leslie Weisman, Chairperson