SOUTHAMPTON—The Southampton Town Board voted unanimously on Tuesday night to reject an application for a special zoning designation to clear the way for a proposed shopping center off County Road 39 in Tuckahoe.
Board members said that the project, which called for a 40,000-square-foot King Kullen grocery store surrounded by retail shops and restaurants, is not in the best interest of the town. The decision by the board to halt consideration of the planned development district, or PDD, application effectively kills the project after more than a year of at times heated dispute involving the developer and residents of the Tuckahoe area and Southampton Village business owners.
“The PDD was not a suitable project in either form or scale and did not fit the area,” Councilman Chris Nuzzi said at a Town... more
Board members said that the project, which called for a 40,000-square-foot King Kullen grocery store surrounded by retail shops and restaurants, is not in the best interest of the town. The decision by the board to halt consideration of the planned development district, or PDD, application effectively kills the project after more than a year of at times heated dispute involving the developer and residents of the Tuckahoe area and Southampton Village business owners.
“The PDD was not a suitable project in either form or scale and did not fit the area,” Councilman Chris Nuzzi said at a Town... more
but i am sure that this kind of gimmick is killing me and you also.
THERE ...more IS NO POSSIBLE way that another development could REDUCE OUR TAXES !!! haha NO WAY would i EVR TRUST THAT Rhetoric. my taxes are the same as a friend in water mill who has a huge house and huge property -- WHAT REALLY IS GOING ON ??!
one thing i am sure of is that development works for the developers ONLY!! and when they dont live nearby what do they care how they wreck a community.
man if that drive to H Bays or the VIllage or even to Riverhead ever gets old for you .. man you sure are lviing the dream. check out how maximum developement has made a laughing stock of myrtle beach and the jersey shore (Avalon& Stone Harbor to be specific)
i PRAY that the town protects the beautiful lands from the developers ... but thats surely a pipe dream
"Southlevitthampton"
Kind of has a "ring" to it, don'cha think?
Beyond traffic issues, this proposal ...more is also about the difference between want and need, overdevelopment and maintaining the character of the area. Sure, who wouldn't want a grocery store closer to their house? It would be convenient, but it is not necessary. When do we say enough, especially given the vast amount of unused retail space and the clear safety issues of CR 39.
Summer Resident: If you really want to know how outrageous this PDD process with Robert Morrow has been, and how he manipulates it through campaign contributions, just review how he got his Hampton Bays supermarket/ shopping center approved.
The PDD law requires that in exchange for ignoring necessary Town zoning for private benefit, a significant "public benefit" needs to be created. In the case of the Hampton Bays PDD, the purported "public benefit" was the establishment of the Senior ...more Center.
And through strategic campaign contributions, he reportedly managed to get the Town Board to give him the ownership of this supposed public benefit "senior center" along with an exorbitant $30,000 a month rent. So what was was supposed to be for public benefit ended up being a super lucrative deal for his "private benefit" costing the town an outrageous amount of money.
But while it was proffered to be a community benefit, Robert Morrow managed to get a lucrative $30,000 monthly rent, a near $400,000 annuity that is one of the most profitable real estate rental deals in the Hamptons.
This is an example of what leads many to believe this Town is really run by developers.
that will work and be very hamptony..
that will work and be very hamptony.."(sic)
By "very hamptony" I assume you mean astronomically expensive because the business model for supermarkets, having less than a 3% profit margin, requires volume which requires space.