Feb 15, 2012 9:02 AM
Members of the public packed Southampton Village Hall once again last Thursday for the third and final public hearing on a proposed law that would allow supermarkets to come to the highway business district. COLLEEN REYNOLDS PHOTOS
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At property owner Wally Glennon’s request, about three-dozen Southampton Village residents sent emails and letters to village officials in support of his plan to build a supermarket on Hampton Road near its intersection with County Road 39 and Flying Point Road.
The emails came just in time for the third and final public hearing before the Village Board last Thursday, February 9, on a proposed law that would allow supermarkets in the village’s highway business district—clearing the path for Mr. Glennon’s plans. The third hearing generated more support than the previous two.
Should the board approve the law, supermarkets between 10,000 square feet and 20,000 square feet could be built on a small handful of lots mostly lining County Road 39A as special exception uses requiring further board approval.
Mr. Glennon’s family is... more
The emails came just in time for the third and final public hearing before the Village Board last Thursday, February 9, on a proposed law that would allow supermarkets in the village’s highway business district—clearing the path for Mr. Glennon’s plans. The third hearing generated more support than the previous two.
Should the board approve the law, supermarkets between 10,000 square feet and 20,000 square feet could be built on a small handful of lots mostly lining County Road 39A as special exception uses requiring further board approval.
Mr. Glennon’s family is... more
The ones who will suffer are the clientele of Waldbaums. They will not have a choice.
It's not like people who would shop at the intersection of Hampton Road and Flying Point Road can't make it to Schmidt's because it's so far away.
This would be really funny if it weren't so typical. People claiming that the village needs more than just a Waldbaums, and then proposing we need a Waldbaum's owned market which duplicates the products sold at a market about a mile ...more away