As you consider voting for Roy Stevenson for Southampton Village trustee, there are some neighborhoods you should look at:
1. The new condo development on Hill Street wedged in between the Southampton Inn and Whitefield, the gold standard for condos. That clutter of big houses jammed into that new development on Hill Street is a typical contribution of Roy Stevenson’s Planning Board.
2. The iconic brick courtyard on Jobs Lane, illegally closed, thanks to Stevenson. On August 6, 2018, I read a letter into the Planning Board record demanding the rescission of their bogus negative declaration to avoid the huge overbuild over the courtyard at 38-42 Jobs Lane. The next work session of the Planning Board, Roy Stevenson asked Elbert W. Robinson Jr., “Does SEQRA trump private property rights?” Of course it does. That’s why the State Legislature voted for that State Environmental Quality Review Act, to give municipalities like our village a chance to preserve valued open spaces and historic sites!
3. Old Town Pond, already threatened by the two new developments approved by Roy Stevenson’s Planning Board east of the Old Town Pond, with four new roads running into Old Town Road, with runoff into Old Town Pond. Just a couple of months ago, Roy Stevenson led a Planning Board voice vote allowing the subdivision of a small property, 245 Old Town Road, just 500 yards uphill from Old Town Pond, opposed for 10 years by the Southampton Association and by hundreds of concerned residents. That Stevenson voice vote for approving that subdivision followed another voice vote agreeing with Stevenson’s claim that “nothing has changed in the last 10 years,” thus illegally bypassing a mandatory full and current SEQRA review, demanded by New York State to protect our fragile natural resources, Agawam Lake and Old Town Pond. Our trustees should order the Planning Board to rescind that subdivision for violation of New York State law.
Look at the videos of the Planning Board meetings in January and February 2021. Compare the Planning Board videos with the Roy Stevenson hypocrisy quoted in the April 8 Southampton Press, on page A3, where he states his platform for getting your vote: “… the major issues are … protecting [Lake] Agawam and the other water resources in the village, slowing the trend to subdivide lots to develop more houses …” [“Stevenson Seeks Seat On Board,” Eastern Edition, April 8].
Please, let’s keep Roy Stevenson busy running that delightful, beloved, treasured toy store on Jobs Lane, where he is needed. Keep him out of our village government, where he has a 13-year record of give-aways to developers!
Evelyn Konrad
Attorney at law
Southampton
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