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A Warm Reception for New Southold Zoning Priorities

Beth Young
The crowd that packed into the Southold Recreation Center Thursday evening to hear Southold Town's plan to prioritize urgent issues in its zoning update seemed pleased to find community housing the top priority. They also lent a chorus of voices to environmental issues they felt should be higher priorities — including protecting the town from rising seas, protecting drinking water and putting in place a code to prevent clear-cutting of
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Southold To Hold June 11 Community Meeting on Zoning Update

Beth Young
Southold Town has announced it will hold a community meeting to discuss the town's new strategy to enact a zoning update on Thursday, June 11 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Peconic Lane Recreation Center. A first draft of the zoning update, prepared by an outside consultant, received a massive amount of public feedback last summer, and after parting ways with its consultant, Southold is now planning to prioritize
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Hotel Moratorium Will Sunset as Southold Weighs Zoning Update Priorities (Including a Tree Clearing Code)

Beth Young
Southold Town's nearly two-year-old moratorium on considering applications for new hotels may expire this June, as the town begins to prioritize adopting aspects of its zoning update piece by piece. Community housing, an update to the town's 2022 big house law and a tree clearing code have also emerged as priorities. The hotel moratorium, in place since June of 2024, ends June 18, 2026, in the midst of the town's
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Anne Smith, Brian Mealy and Heather Lanza at the Town Board's April 21 work session.
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Southold Town To Break Zoning Update Into Smaller Pieces

Beth Young
by Beth Young One year after Southold Town released a first draft of a massive overhaul of the town's zoning code that received massive amounts of public feedback last summer, the town is now planning to make the changes incrementally. They'll be focusing first on priority areas that will likely include community housing, changes to the town's big house law, and potentially specific areas of the code including hotels and
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Eyes On the North Fork’s Future with Planner Mark Terry

Beth Young
In his 23 years working as a planner for Southold Town, Mark Terry was integrally involved with major planning initiatives ranging from the town’s 2006 subdivision code to its Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan to its Comprehensive Plan, Community Housing Plan and Zoning Update. And now, he’s gearing up for another chapter in his life, just as the North Fork's longterm planning initiatives are being put to the test. We sat
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Editorial: Take the Incremental Path

East End Beacon
It’s been nearly a year since Southold Town first unveiled its proposed Zoning Update, which has been in the works now for the better half of a decade after the 2020 adoption of the town’s Comprehensive Plan. When the first draft of the massive overhaul was unveiled to the public last year, reactions were all over the map. It was a lot to digest, and despite the town Planning Department’s
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In Southold, Big House Tweak Hints at Incremental Code Changes Ahead

Beth Young
When the Southold Town Board unanimously approved a tweak to its 2022 "big house law" Tuesday evening, it bit off just the tip of the iceberg of a major overhaul of its zoning code that has suffered setbacks since an early draft was rolled out last spring. The big house code limited house size based on a calculation known as gross floor area (GFA), which limited the GFA of a
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Frustrations Continue Over Pace of Southold Zoning Update

Beth Young
The early retirement of Southold Town Assistant Town Planning Director Mark Terry this summer and a shortage of staffing in the town's planning office has had a greater impact than expected on the pace of the town's Zoning Update, acknowledged Town Planning Director Heather Lanza at the Town Board's Dec. 16 work session. Pictured Above: Southold Town Planning Director Heather Lanza at a public information session earlier this year. The town
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Members of the Southold Town Board and the community packed up tables and chairs after the first public forum on the zoning update this spring. Town staff and community volunteers are expected to do more heavy lifting in the months ahead.
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Southold Brings Zoning Update Back in House

Beth Young
Southold Town is going it alone on the final stages of its Zoning Update, after signing a settlement agreement to part ways with ZoneCo., the company the town had hired to do a major overhaul of the town’s zoning code, in early September. The agreement terminating the town’s contract with ZoneCo., signed by Town Supervisor Al Krupski on Sept. 9, was effective July 29.  It states that the “parties had
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Southold Zoning Update Advisory Committee members (l-r) Kevin Stuessi, Pat Kirkpatrick, Leslie Weisman and Heather Lanza at the Aug. 19 work session.
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In Southold, Zoning Update Committee Finally Has A Chance to Sink Its Teeth Into Analyzing Code

Beth Young
As the Southold Town Planning Department weighs the voluminous amount of public comments received earlier this summer on the first draft of a rewrite of the town's zoning code, the town's Zoning Update Advisory Committee (ZUAC) is embarking on a deep dive into how that code will work in real life. Pictured Above: Southold Zoning Update Advisory Committee members (l-r) Kevin Stuessi, Pat Kirkpatrick, Leslie Weisman and Heather Lanza at
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Greenport is Not Happy With Changes to Southold Zoning Update

Beth Young
Businesses and lawmakers in Greenport Village are not happy with potential changes to the areas just outside the village boundaries proposed in Southold Town's Zoning Update. The Village's Business Improvement District (BID) is particularly concerned about the town's recent change of heart allowing restaurants and retail uses in a new Corridor Business Zoning District, and many in village government want the Zoning Update to do more to enable affordable housing
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