Jan 1, 2013 5:57 PM
East End Hospice is pushing forward with plans to build an eight-room inpatient facility on land it owns on Quiogue, though it could still be months before the organization receives the final green light from Southampton Town.
The Southampton Town Planning Board deemed the site plan application for the new facility complete at its meeting on December 20 and scheduled a public hearing, during which community members are invited to share their thoughts or concerns, for Thursday, January 24, as the next step in the process. After the hearing, the board will accept written comments from the public for a period, and will then consider making changes to the site plan based on the feedback.
Kerri Meyer, the senior clerk of the planning department, said the finalization of the site plan could... more
The Southampton Town Planning Board deemed the site plan application for the new facility complete at its meeting on December 20 and scheduled a public hearing, during which community members are invited to share their thoughts or concerns, for Thursday, January 24, as the next step in the process. After the hearing, the board will accept written comments from the public for a period, and will then consider making changes to the site plan based on the feedback.
Kerri Meyer, the senior clerk of the planning department, said the finalization of the site plan could... more
Anna? Care to comment? Tim Maybe You? Hello anyone there?
though it could still be months before the organization receives the final green light from Southampton Town.
The Southampton Town Planning Board deemed the site plan application for the new facility complete at its meeting on December 20 and scheduled a public hearing, during which community members are invited ...more to share their thoughts or concerns
Are you referring to the motel now being used as a shelter by the County? The reason it didn't get review was because it didn't need it... there was no change in use. Nice try though at making Anna look bad (who, btw for what it's worth has adamantly opposed its existence going as far as to insinuate that everyone living there is a bad person and does not belong in her ...more town [in not so many words])
It looks like a ghetto.
People walking around talking to themselves,large groups of loitering disheveled looking slobs, garbage in the street. baggy pants gangster looks as they skulk down the road at all hours. Their fouls mouths yelling at there children and who ever they are "talking" to on there cell phones as the get out of taxi's ...more and pile into our brand new stop and shop to use there food stamps.bank robberies by a man who was visiting the hotel a week before.I have repeatedly asked Anna's office (With no response!) Why should any neighborhood hood have to absorb this quantity of section eight no responsibility welfare residents. Do you have an answer for this question Nature ??? I know where Anna Lives and I also know this would never be tolerated in that neighborhood
You act like before this change occured it was a wonderful motel for families to come vacation during the summers... the clientele is basically exactly the same - and you really show your ...more true feelings with this line:
"[they] pile into our brand new stop and shop to use there food stamps."
So because they have to use food stamps they shouldn't be allowed in our "brand new" stop and shop? Good God have some compassion. You are no longer worth my time - enjoy living in your spiteful them vs. us world.
Like I asked you before
Why should any neighborhood hood have to absorb this quantity of section eight no responsibility welfare residents.
Lets put one of these gems in North Haven and see what happens.
However, Dan does raise at least one factually valid point: the lack of affordable subsidized housing in every hamlet within the Town. Subsidized and other mechanisms to create affordable housing should not be ghettoized, but should be shared town wide.
I know George, you ...more would agree with that.
Happy New Year George.
I bet if you ask Stop and Shop, they will tell you that everyone with cash, credit cards or food stamps are ALWAYS welcomed in the store.
Do us all a favor, if you have children, don't subject them to your warped mind set.
The sole issue is this the best spot for a commercial enterprise? I think not for two reasons. First it is a large "footprint" of an enterprise near water. If it were any other organization this would not be so well met. Secondly is the rapidly changing scene in Quiogue. In the early 90's I was ...more told that there would NEVER be development on Adam or Jeffrey Lane. Give it 15 years and we have houses there now. 112 meetinghouse is being divided into 4 new houses. When I spoke to the planning Board they were quick to cite that the developer had the right to put up a fifth house given the land usage rules. They were happy! the traffic all exists onto Meetinghouse road.
It is not a commercially zoned lot and should not get an exemption no matter how noble the cause
Additionally it's approximately 5 acres in size - ~ 12,000 square foot home and will have 8 permanent residents. Is that REALLY any different than what goes on in Quogue, Quiogue, Westhampton Beach, Westhampton Dunes, West Hampton? ...more Ok, maybe because they are YEAR-round residents, but from an environmental standpoint it's on par with the surrounding area. Wether or not that's OK or "acceptable" is a different argument all-together
Now in this instance it is a commercial venture. IMHO again, I do not think Quiogue will benefit from commercial development in that spot, nor given all the proposed/enacted development over the last decade.
Now I prefer to keep the mission ...more of the business out but I will bring it back in. Why would you build a palliative care facility in a flood plain? Many people in Katrina died b/c they had to be moved and they were not strong enough to do so. If this facility existed already you'd have had to evacuate them TWICE in the last 14 months. The point is to die with grace and dignity, not while being transported.
I am sorry but this is a bad idea.
Is it wise to allow it to be built on the banks of a creek? Well, it will meet FEMA flood zone requirements so what more can ...more you ask for? This is a choice that has to be made by the people responsible for putting their relatives in the facility.
They will have commercial laundry service, "red bag" refuse, back up generators, etc.
Regardless of EEH's mission, that land is not for commercial use. The exemption should ...more not be given. The necessity for the Multi family designation may be because it needs to conform with land use or maybe it's because the people in it are not getting hospital care but are non-family members co-habitating.
I live two blocks from Seafield and know people who live nearer ...more than that, I and I've never heard any complaints about it. So if Seafield works in Westhampton Beach, why shouldn't Hospice work in Quiogue?