The renewed proposal for a King Kullen supermarket on the northern boundary of Southampton Village shouldn’t deter the village from seeking to tweak its zoning code to encourage the development of a grocery store on the fringes of the village business district, lawmakers said this week.
Members of the Village Board said this week that they don’t see the King Kullen proposal in Tuckahoe as negating the need for another grocer within the village itself and said that, pending a traffic study by village consultants, they plan to press ahead with the legislation.
“I don’t think we just need it a little, we need it a lot,” village Trustee Bill Hattrick said this week. “If you introduce the King Kullen, I don’t have an answer for that, but there’s no way of... more
Members of the Village Board said this week that they don’t see the King Kullen proposal in Tuckahoe as negating the need for another grocer within the village itself and said that, pending a traffic study by village consultants, they plan to press ahead with the legislation.
“I don’t think we just need it a little, we need it a lot,” village Trustee Bill Hattrick said this week. “If you introduce the King Kullen, I don’t have an answer for that, but there’s no way of... more


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Do folks know that Jefferson Murphree, an advocate for Morrow while on the taxpayer dime, now works for the very same firm that Morrow hired to write his marketing plan? And to make matters worse, Morrow's minion, Freda Eisenberg, wrote the 39 corridor study and is set to be appointed the head of the planning commission?
-- this location is probably the WORST
Where are the other three?
Is the property south of 27 and north of the Hillcrest Ave. neighborhood (near the new nursing home behind 7-11) one of the other three eligible properties?
Who owns this parcel?
Is there any relationship between the owners of this parcel and the village officials, in particular Mayor Epley, ...more either by marriage or college affiliation?
Does this parcel have access from the Hillcrest area?
What a society of spoiled convenience seekers we've become. CR39 is a mess. Adding a 40,000 ...more square foot grocery store with 500 parking spots and another freaking bank will only make it worse. Enough is enough.