Potter Yet To Submit Full Application for Mixed-Use Development in Sag Harbor

More than a month after Adam Potter submitted his latest application for a mixed-use development of five parcels totaling 1.4 acres on Bridge and Rose streets, Sag Harbor Village officials say they are still waiting for important details, including basic building plans, that are required before they can begin to formally review the proposal.

“Plans should be submitted to the Planning Board so they know what they are looking at,” Building Inspector Christopher Talbot said. “It’s useless if you have no idea of what they are proposing.”

For now, Talbot said the application had been referred to the village’s environmental consultant, Nelson Pope Voorhis, which will have no choice but to deem the application incomplete.

Talbot said Potter’s application includes a site layout plan, which shows two buildings flanking what Potter says will be a privately maintained park that is open to the public.

One of the buildings, identified as a three-story community center called The Complex, would have a footprint of 16,144 square feet, according to the plans. If the entire building had three floors, that would result in a total square footage of 48,432 feet.

But Talbot said that renderings submitted with the application led him to believe a portion of the building that would contain an auditorium or performance space may be three stories tall but have only a single floor. He said the remaining portion of the building appears to have three floors. When he measured the two parts of the building following those assumptions, Talbot said he came up with an estimate of about 27,000 total square feet — but he stressed that it was little more than a best estimate based on incomplete information.

The second building, also three stories, is listed as containing a total of 74,980 square feet. That would be distributed across 39 apartments on the second and third floors, totaling 50,840 square feet, 10,778 square feet of retail space on the first floor, and 13,362 square feet of ground-floor garage with 40 parking spaces.

All told, the proposal calls for approximately 102,000 square feet of construction, just slightly smaller than the nearly 106,000 square feet that Potter proposed last year, although that initial plan called for a total of 79 affordable apartments, while the new one would set aside 19 of the 39 proposed units as affordable.

In unveiling his plans in August, Potter said they would include a 65,000-gallon water retention system to retain rainwater on site, although the plans to do not show where that would be placed on the property. Potter has also said he would voluntarily undertake an environmental remediation of the site, but has provided no details.

Neither Potter nor his attorney, Tiffany Scarlato, returned calls seeking comment.

Earlier this month, the Village Board rescinded a measure giving it authority to issue special permits for major projects in the Waterfront Overlay District like this one. There has been speculation that Potter was waiting to submit a full application until after that action was taken.