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Saga of little house on Sagaponack prairie
May 12, 10 11:38 AM
Sagaponack house saga continues
Apr 21, 10 12:12 PM
moreThe Peconic Land Trust will proceed with plans to move a house in Sagaponack to a nearby farm field, although a court order last week blocking the group from placing the house where it had intended will slightly alter the plans.
A temporary restraining order was granted to Lillith Jacobs, who lives directly across the street from the 1-acre parcel that the Land Trust intends to use to permanently relocate the house. Ms. Jacobs and other nearby homeowners have objected to the plans to put the house, which is one of eight “four square” houses in the area built in the 1930s by a Sagaponack architect, on the vacant plot of land owned by the South Fork Land Foundation, an adjunct of the Peconic Land Trust.
Peconic Land Trust President John v.H. Halsey said this week that while the house will still be relocated to the property, the group will comply with the temporary restraining order imposed and not place the house, which the land preservation group plans to sell to bolster its farmland conservation efforts, within 300 feet of the intersection of Hedges Lane and Fairfield Pond Lane.
“I would imagine we’ll put it 300 feet and 1 inch,” Mr. Halsey said this week. “It’s too bad we can’t put it where it’s ultimately supposed to go, but, hopefully, we can work through the issue with the person who brought this action.”
The move must be made by March 15 in accordance with an agreement made between the Land Trust and developer Alan Schnurman, who planned to raze the house before the group asked to save it.
The house is to be moved to an uncultivated corner of a 10-acre farm field. The foundation’s board agreed to subdivide a parcel for the house and permanently preserve the rest of the lot. The Peconic Land Trust has yet to apply the Sagaponack Village Planning Board for the subdivision.
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