Where has our Southampton Village Building Department hidden the 2010 file for Guerin, then-owner of the deed for 7 South Rosko Drive, Rosko Place Subdivision?
That’s the file that the present owner used as the excuse for: (1) violating the restrictive covenants that run with the land; (2) applying for a variance under a different address than the one shown on the property deed; (3) applying for permission allowing destruction of three-bedroom ranch currently on this shy half-acre, to be replaced by a seven-bedroom McMansion, without proper ID of the property nor proper notice to the other owners of Rosko Place Subdivision property.
And both regulatory boards, the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Board of Architectural Review and Historic Preservation, have nonetheless granted this flawed application for government action, which failed to identify the property under the legal title on the deed, and to submit such applications to all legal owners of property in that subdivision.
Nonetheless, both the ARB and ZBA granted the fatally flawed application to destroy a three-bedroom ranch and replace it with a seven-bedroom McMansion.
The reason why the owner used an address different from the one on her deed may be the same as the reason why the Guerin file from 2010 has disappeared from the Building Department files: Someone may want to conceal the January 25, 2010, decision by the ARB, which twice in that decision, in contradiction to the subdivision documents filed with the Suffolk County clerk, claims that 7 South Rosko Drive is “not part of the Rosko Place development,” and “adjacent to but not part of the Rosko Place Subdivision.”
At any rate, owners in the Rosko Place subdivision can now inspect the file for the ARB and ZBA at the Building Department, since I have given the clerk of the Building Department copies of the Guerin file for the new files, including the earlier “decision.” I have also sent this material to our Board of Trustees, one of whom, Mark Parash, also is a legal deed owner in the Rosko Place Subdivision. The same copies have gone to the editor of our official newspaper, The Southampton Press.
This village administration is responsible for its regulatory boards and, under New York State law, should order the ARB and ZBA to rescind these grants.
Evelyn Konrad
Attorney at law
Southampton
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