Montauk on steroids: A stroll down the immense concrete boardwalk-slash-sea wall at Virginia Beach.

“Right now, there is no sense of entrance,” the landscape architect Michael Derrig told the East Hampton Village Board as he presented a conceptual design for the Newtown Lane-facing portion of Herrick Park. Central to the design is an allée of trees leading to a lawn formed into an oval by the contours of the walkway.