Letters

Michael Irving’s platform, as expressed in his newspaper advertisement, is woefully short of specifics and embarrassingly behind the times in his promise to “Update Village Master Plan.”

Two weeks ago, in accordance with a resolution voted on and passed by the Board of Trustees, Mayor Jesse Warren signed a contract with BFJ Planning to update the excellent and last village “Master Plan,” or “Comprehensive Plan,” of May 2000, which that same firm had produced, and which the Epley zoning code of 2005 violated rather than implemented, as required by New York State Village Law.

Michael Irving’s claim in his letter to the editor [“Not Driven By Drama,” Letters, April 29] is equally disingenuous: He claims his independence from Mark Epley, who was the mayor of developers. But he was appointed trustee by Mark Epley after he changed his vote as a Planning Board member from opposing the subdivision of 245 Old Town Road, a lot owned by a former Epley trustee and developer, Paul Robinson, to suddenly approving that greedy plan. Robinson’s application to put two houses on that small lot, just 500 yards uphill from Old Town Pond, was opposed by 233 village residents who signed a petition at that time.

Earlier this year, Roy Stevenson, candidate for trustee this June, led a voice vote of his Planning Board approving that same Robinson subdivision, even though the Planning Board had failed to first implement the mandatory SEQRA review, which would reveal the damage to Old Town Pond from yet more runoff added to the overdevelopment on the shores of the vulnerable pond, on Roy Stevenson’s watch.

Two birds with one stone? Hell, don’t blame the birds; the swans have long since left fragile Old Town Pond for Shinnecock Bay.

Evelyn Konrad

Southampton