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This one-bedroom, waterfront co-op in Montauk is listed at $349,000. COURTESY THE CORCORAN GROUP
Gurney's Inn in the 1930s. Warren Gurney, who with his wife, Maude, was the inn's first owner, is most likely the man behind the counter at right. MONTAUK LIBRARY/DOROTHY EGOLF COLLECTION
The East Hampton Town hamlet study will begin its most involved phase this week with four days of meetings and discussion of business and development in Montauk.
The Montauk meetings will kick off today, September 14, with a walking tour of the downtown area. Residents are invited to join engineers and designers from Dodson & Flinker, the Massachusetts consulting company conducting the studies in all five hamlets, at the gazebo on the village green at 10:30 a.m. for the walking tour.
On Wednesday afternoon, starting at 2:30 p.m., the consultants will lead a walking tour of the harbor area. The tour will start in the public parking lot next to Gosman’s.
The walking tour will be an opportunity for residents to point out specific features of the existing development that should be a focus of the consultant’s efforts and offer suggestions for how future development should be guided.
On Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. the consultants will host a public workshop at the Montauk Playhouse to look at the entire hamlet, which features are cherished by residents, what needs changing and what the town’s priorities should be in long-term planning.
On Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. the consultants will hold a second “visioning” workshop focusing on the commercial center of the downtown area, to explore various alternatives for future development. Friday night, also at 6:30 p.m., will be another visioning workshop, focusing on the harbor area.
On Saturday morning the consultants will present some of their own suggestions for design and planning guidelines for the hamlet based on the information they gleaned over the previous discussion sessions and let Montauk residents offer their input on the ideas.
All the workshops will be held in the Montauk Playhouse Gymnasium.
Following the charrettes the consultants will work on overall development and economic stimulation proposals, which will be presented to the town later this year or early next year. The town will then hold its own public reviews of the individual studies before adopting them, or portions of them, into the town’s Master Plan.
on Sep 13, 2016