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East Hampton Town will seek state grants to help it pay to create a new public parking lot at the intersection of South Edison Street and South Euclid Avenue
near the Montauk Post Office. M. Wright
East Hampton Town will seek state grants to help it pay to create a new public parking lot at the intersection of South Edison Street and South Euclid Avenue
near the Montauk Post Office. M. Wright
East Hampton Town will seek state grant funding to help pay for the creation of a new public parking lot in Montauk, on land it purchased earlier this year near the post office on South Euclid Avenue.
The town is expected to agree to hire an engineering firm next week to design the new parking lot, which will replace an overgrown vacant lot at the intersection of South Euclid and South Edison Street. The firm, L.K. McLean Associates of Brookhaven, will be paid $54,300 to design the lot.
The property at 84 South Euclid Avenue that will become the new lot is just under a half acre in size. It was purchased by the town in April from Harry Jacobs for $515,000.
Supervisor Larry Cantwell said the construction of the lot is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $300,000. He said he has been in talks with State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle and State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. about securing state grants to help cover some of the costs of the lot.
“We’d like to get the design done and get it constructed if possible before next summer,” Mr. Cantwell said at Tuesday’s Town Board work session.
The board is also looking to hire McClean Associates to do an analysis of traffic patterns on infrastructure in downtown Montauk in hopes of making some changes over the winter that will ease traffic congestion and safety issues with pedestrians.
Mr. Cantwell said that East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo recently made some suggestions for ways to improve traffic safety in the busy downtown area and that a traffic engineer will be needed to present an official plan.
Mr. Cantwell said that the changes the chief suggested included new roadway striping, switching some streets to one-way and new no parking zones. The traffic analysis would cost $45,000.
Board members said they would expect the information gleaned from the traffic analysis would help with the drafting of the downtown business district studies the town plans to conduct in each of its hamlets over the next two years.
Michael Wright on Sep 1, 2015