Regarding the low-income housing proposal on County Road 39 [“Liberty Garden Developers Present Final Environmental Report to Southampton Town Board,” 27east.com, December 20]: I guess the Southampton Town Board members want to make County Road 39 into a Riverhead County Road 58?
Do the traffic studies: trade parade two times per day. Adding a development there is ludicrous, will increase traffic and accidents. What is wrong with you people? Families, children walking, playing and living on one of the state’s busiest and deadly roads? It’s about money, not housing.
Look, this coming summer, they will pave County Road 39 (for the 2025 U.S. Open at Shinnecock) nice, just in time to show off Southampton. But the thing is, the road is posted 35 mph. People go as fast as they want — no shoulders, terrible entrance and exits formed when the curbs were put in. Traffic lights causing backups and hours of traffic.
Now, with the increased speeds after the paving of County Road 39, the “Super Speedway of Death,” you want to put in housing? Asinine.
The housing would not be for people out here who live here — it will be filled with up-islanders and won’t help. It is not a place for it, on County Road 39, just like the nursing home — look at the time it took to get that passed, a lot of bartering and money changing hands.
The board and the proposed plan to develop housing should be put out to pasture. Look at what previous board members allowed in Southampton, changing it for the worse, just so they could say or have their names involved. You’re in the elite Hamptons, the wealthy — we do not have that out here, just mansions.
Common sense, people. You will create more traffic, traffic accidents, deaths and injuries if you allow this preposterous idea.
Timothy E. McCarthy
Southampton
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