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Strong’s Submits Scaled-Back Yacht Storage Proposal

Beth Young
Strong's Marine has submitted a revised site plan for its proposed yacht storage buildings on Mattituck Inlet, scaling back the proposal to one 65,100-square-foot building designed to accommodate 56 yachts. The applicants say the project will also reduce the amount of sand removed from the site by 48 percent. The original proposal, first submitted in 2018, called for two roughly 50,000-square-foot buildings that would accommodate 88 yachts averaging 60 feet
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Aquebogue’s Rural Corridor Faces Proposed Traffic Light, Office Building

Beth Young
Route 25 changes character distinctly when it crosses Route 105 eastbound, a line of demarcation that many see as the gateway to the North Fork. Riverhead Town's zoning acknowledges that this section of what's known as the Main Road, which has its origins at Main Street in Queens before wending its way through dozens of miles of strip malls and traffic lights, is a rural corridor. But a 14,999-square-foot medical
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Agritourism Resort Code & Proposed Water Pipeline Top North Fork Towns Discussion

Beth Young
You'd be forgiven as you drive down the rural corridors of the North Fork for missing the signs in Laurel marking your transition from one town to another, but it's not often that representatives of the two towns of Riverhead and Southold all sit together to hash out common concerns. Most of the Riverhead Town Board made a rare visit to talk with the Southold Town Board at its July
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Back to the Drawing Board for Strong’s Yacht Storage

Beth Young
The Southold Town Planning Board adjourned votes to Aug. 5 on a denial resolution and a findings statement for the proposed Strong's Yacht Center yacht storage buildings in Mattituck Monday night in anticipation of receiving a new, scaled-back plan "within two weeks." The two proposed buildings, roughly 50,000 square feet each, would have required the removal of about 124,000 cubic yards of sand from a hillside adjacent to a nature
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From left: Southold Town Planning Director Heather Lanza, Jeff Strong and attorneys Charles Cuddy and David Altman at the Suffolk County Planning Commission's July 20 meeting.
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Planning Commission Disapproves Yacht Storage in Mattituck, Project To Be Revised

Beth Young
The Suffolk County Planning Commission has disapproved of Strong’s Yacht Center’s proposal to excavate a hillside to build two roughly 50,000-square-foot yacht storage buildings alongside Mattituck Inlet. The project is currently under coordinated review by the Southold Town Planning Board under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), and the Planning Commission’s disapproval is an advisory recommendation that can be overridden by the Town Planning Board. Pictured Above, from left:
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Southold At Work To Protect From “Hamptonization”

Beth Young
Keenly aware of its potential to rival the Hamptons as a second-home destination for the super-rich, Southold Town is working to limit some of those extravagances, including excessive irrigation and oversized houses on small lots. The Southold Town Board has also just unanimously enacted a one-year moratorium on processing of applications for new hotels, motels and resorts. Irrigation Law in the Works Southold Town's Water Advisory Committee has been working
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Suffolk County IDA to Hold Southold Hearing on Tax Breaks for The Enclaves

Beth Young
Pictured Above: The site of the proposed luxury hotel "The Enclaves" on the Main Road in Southold. After much public backlash against the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency's approval two months ago of $2.7 million in tax breaks for the proposed $44 million luxury hotel The Enclaves proposed on the Main Road in Southold, the Suffolk IDA will hold a local public hearing on the proposal next Monday, Dec. 11
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