Government

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s recent remarks about establishing a statewide licensing system for taxi and livery businesses, including services like Uber and Lyft that are summoned by an app, have prompted East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell to send a letter to Albany, weighing in.

The Town of Southampton is working to come up with $5.1 million to elevate Dune Road from Hampton Bays to Quogue. Parts of the road can be impassable during high tides.

Whether that golden touch can give him a third floor on his Montauk house will be determined over the next few weeks by the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals.

East Hampton Town will move to require advanced treatment of septic waste in its harbor areas in order to stem the release of nitrogen into surface waters where pollution from wastewater has been climbing.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals was in an Amagansett state of mind during its March 15 meeting, considering applications about two Beach Hampton properties.

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Sanitation Department Flooded

The Army Corps of Engineers presented a plan for the Montauk Inlet on Tuesday that would combine dredging with a project to bolster the shoreline to the west.

Information about the effectiveness of the two East Hampton Airport curfews imposed before last year’s summer season will be presented at Town Hall tomorrow at 10 a.m.

Four hundred and sixty-three thousand gallons of sewage have not entered waterways over the last six years, thanks in large part to the East Hampton Town Trustees’ pump-out boat program.

A meeting of Montauk Shores Condominiums owners will take place at the trailer park’s clubhouse on Saturday at noon at which, according to a letter inviting their attendance, “the most exciting news to reach Montauk Shores in decades” will be presented.

Southampton Town officials are calling for a year-long moratorium on all new planned development district applications so that the town board can address what the supervisor called “real problems within the law.”

An analysis of how last summer’s overnight curfew at the East Hampton Airport affected aircraft noise and its related complaints will be presented at a meeting of the East Hampton Town Board on Friday, March 18.

A couple of months later than expected, but the Southampton Town Board has hired a new town attorney. Supervisor Jay Schneiderman’s pick, James M. Burke, was sworn in on Tuesday afternoon following unanimous approval by the board.

Following a hearing last month that made it clear plans for the Bridgehampton Gateway project did not meet community or Southampton Town approval, the developer has agreed to redesign the project.

The East Hampton Town Planning Department has recommended the denial of two applications from waterfront property holders.

East Hampton Town is redesigning its website, and is seeking photographs for it. The idea is that visitors to the website would get a look at landscapes, people, activities, parks, culture and art, nature and animals, and so on.

The Suffolk County Independence Party has endorsed Dave Calone, a businessman and former chairman of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, in his bid to represent New York’s First Congressional District.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons will host a conversation with the supervisors of East Hampton and Southampton Towns on Tuesday night at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton.

The town looks for hamlet and business studies, to lower speed limits, and more.

A mini-workshop on East Hampton Town’s new rental registry law will take place on Saturday at a meeting of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. at the Wainscott Chapel.

Forty members of the Surfrider Foundation participated in the organization’s national lobbying effort on Feb. 12 in Washington, D.C.

Jay Schneiderman may have switch­ed jobs from Suffolk County legislator to Southampton Town supervisor, but his concern for traffic congestion on the main corridor onto the East End remains.

The Long Island Environmental Voters Forum has endorsed David Calone, a businessman and former chairman of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for New York’s First Congressional District. The party’s nominee will oppose Representative Lee Zeldin, the Republican incumbent, who will seek a second term.

The East Hampton Town Trustees endorsed two projects aimed at restoring Georgica Pond to health on Tuesday, telling the representative of a property owners’ association that an application to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for the larger project could be made in the trustees’ name.

A push for conservation tax break and water quality protection grants.

While the weather may still be wintry, and we are only on the second page of the 2016 calendar, it is about this time that real estate agents begin the process of matching up landlords and tenants for summer rentals.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board got its first look at a site plan for a new car wash business last week and found it fairly sparkling.

Three fish kills in the Peconic River last summer were the result of rising water temperatures, elevated levels of nitrogen, and harmful algal blooms, according to a study by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, and researchers at Stony Brook and Cornell Universities.

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East Deck Land Is Rezoned

A zoning change approved by the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday paves the way for the subdivision and redevelopment of oceanfront property in Montauk that is the site of the East Deck Motel.

The board voted to change the zoning district from resort to half-acre residential, which will allow a plan to create four house lots on the property, at 40 DeForest Road near Ditch Plain beach, to proceed.

More than two months after the resignation of Brad Bender, the Southampton Town Board became whole again.