Recently, the Village of Southampton passed a minimum two-week stay residential rental law [“Southampton Village Board Passes New Seasonal Rental Restrictions,” 27east.com, August 24]. Considering that the traffic congestion here has become a true quality-of-life issue, our mayor and Board of Trustees did not go far enough.
Southampton Village must start considering more restrictive measures to manage traffic congestion. We restrict almost all our beaches to those with beach passes, don’t we? Why can’t we restrict the times when commercial vehicles use our streets, or increase the number of persons in a car during rush hours unless they have a residential sticker?
In Newport, Rhode Island, another resort community, a landlord has to rent a property for at least one month or pay a significant portion of the rental income to the Town of Newport. This law was intended in part to restrict the number of transients to the community.
It is time for the community to contact the mayor and Board of Trustees and show up at village meetings with substantive ideas. Other resort communities have found solutions — and just complaining is not the answer.
Paula Angelone
Southampton Village
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