Thursday, August 13 the Southampton Village Trustees approved changes to the zoning code which will limit the height and placement of houses in the FEMA flood zone. This is another zoning win for our Village. Southampton Association board member Bruce Bockmann identified the problem more than 18 months ago and has led the fight to change the procedures in our village.
Previously, Southampton Village had simply added the full FEMA required elevation which could be as much as 17 feet (plus 2 feet
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At the May 14th meeting of the village trustees, Jay Diesing presented the Southampton Association’s six point plan for zoning reform. The basics of the proposal are as follows (Full description attached):
Many Village residents are concerned about the impact these oversized houses are having on our community – which include changing the ambiance of our neighborhoods, forcing out local residents, and creating unsafe street parking, among other issues. By the June 11th meeting, specific
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Southampton Association Discussion
Overbuilding on Small and Medium Sized Lots
What Can You Do?
BACKGROUND
At the Meeting of the Directors and Members of the Southampton Association on Friday, July 24
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At the March 12th meeting of the village trustees, the Southampton Association sponsored a presentation by planner Lisa Liquori regarding parking regulations in residential areas. The building of larger homes is driving up the need for increased residential parking. Many homes on ½ acre and smaller lots now contain 6 to 8 bedrooms, requiring 5 to 7 parking spaces according to our code. As the properties are often developed with detached garages, pools and pool houses, on-site
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As noted in our last set of minutes, January saw 2 additional projects (450 Gin and 20 Gin) exempted from the height moratorium by the village trustees. The moratorium restricted for 6 months the granting of building permits where the height of the house is greater than 35 feet above the original grade in the FEMA Flood zone. It is set to expire in April. An extension (for what reason we are uncertain, since every application received an exemption) is being considered. Most other East End
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I want to begin by thanking the many members of the Southampton Association and the community who attended numerous Village Trustee and ARB meetings over the past 2 months. Your support and input will hopefully be heard by our Trustees and Architectural Review Board (ARB) members. Our village is under attack through a process that may inadvertently enable certain new homes in the FEMA flood zone to be built 10 to 15 feet higher than
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Given the concern we have regarding density, McMansions on small lots and over-development, the Association recently commissioned a study of zoning codes on the East End (see below). In the report, Lisa Liquori (a former Planning Consultant to the Town of East Hampton) clearly lays out how Southampton Village’s zoning code is significantly more generous in each of the 5 main zoning categories than our neighboring towns and Villages.
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At the May and June trustee meetings, a number of new issues were presented and discussed. In May, an initial design for adding entrance steps at the Southampton Arts Center were presented by Siamak Samii. The steps would be located to the west of the existing building entrance on Jobs Lane, thereby opening up the lawn to the street on the west side of the Center. The board appeared to support the concept but no decision was made. A plan to establish a valet parking service was briefly outlined
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At the March and April Trustees meetings, the main issue continued to be the application to develop a 56 unit senior housing complex on Moses Lane, near Corrigan Street. The 11 acre property is currently zoned for ½ acre residential parcels. The developer applied under a code provision that allows for a zoning change where the property lies within a “walkable” distance of the village center (defined as ½
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