Jan 9, 2013 9:52 AM
Suffolk County officials appealed to the Southampton Town Board last month to support plans for a new program that would allow the county to seize contaminated commercial and industrial properties county-wide. The county would then clean up the properties and sell them for commercial redevelopment to help revitalize blighted areas.
One of the properties the county has already identified as a likely target for seizure, remediation and redevelopment is on Old Quogue Road in Flanders, County Planning Director Sarah Lansdale told the Southampton Town Board last month.
Ms. Lansdale was before the board to ask for its endorsement of the county’s creation of a new land bank, to stockpile the properties, seized for non-payment of taxes, while they are cleaned up and marketed for redevelopment.
“The [land bank] would be a vehicle to... more
One of the properties the county has already identified as a likely target for seizure, remediation and redevelopment is on Old Quogue Road in Flanders, County Planning Director Sarah Lansdale told the Southampton Town Board last month.
Ms. Lansdale was before the board to ask for its endorsement of the county’s creation of a new land bank, to stockpile the properties, seized for non-payment of taxes, while they are cleaned up and marketed for redevelopment.
“The [land bank] would be a vehicle to... more
