Letters

Monday night’s Civic Association meeting about Nelson Pope Voorhis and the Hampton Bays Downtown Overlay District [“Rebellious Crowd Packs Auditorium For Redevelopment Forum In Hampton Bays,” 27east.com, August 31] raised one big concern for me: What if Hampton Bays doesn’t want to be like the rest of the crazy Hamptons? What if we want to be small and stay like Sag Harbor was in the 1980s, before it was “discovered”?

Hampton Bays natives and residents do not need three-story housing plugging up our roads, our beaches, ruining our water and air quality, destroying what wildlife is left, and making this another bloody Manhattanites’ retreat center. Go to Southampton.

And who is paying for this plan? My taxes on a house that is half the value of a Southampton house and are twice as high as Southampton taxes?

I, for one, am happy being the odd little town isn’t cute and fluffy and full of nosebleed high-end clothing stores and face-lifts.

I am also deeply concerned that the Civic Association members who argued against this plan were voted out. Who votes for the Civic Association members themselves?

And at the end of the meeting we were told that there is going to be a vote at the next session in two months. What does that mean? A raise of hands?

We need a real vote, with the power to vote if we aren’t in town. I travel a lot, and I don’t want to come back from work to find my quiet little community has turned into another bloody tourist stop.

Heather Dune Macadam

Hampton Bays