Water Mill Community Notes, January 19

Last week I mentioned that access to Nowedonah Road from the service road along the railroad tracks had been restored. Well, that is not exactly correct, as I learned last week when making my way to the bank on the corner. The fact is, the ridiculous circle that connects the new development to the west is finished and now effectively blocks access from the service road to Nowedonah. It’s an incredibly overbuilt “solution” to the traffic flow problems that will ensue when the project to the west opens for business. And it breaks my heart how close the traffic circle is to the Community Club fields and how it takes away one of the singular joys of “localhood”: knowing where the dirt road leads to.

We were pleased to learn that... more