Even though the East Hampton Town attorney said last month that the town could not entertain other offers on the 97-acre Wainscott property leased by the Maidstone Gun Club, a new suitor emerged on Saturday, this one with a proposal to develop a portion of the lot into privately owned affordable housing.
In East Hampton Town, Councilman Ian Calder-Piedmonte won a special election to serve another year on the town board, and voters overwhelmingly approved a proposition that will allow the town to remove the property sometimes called the Sherrill Triangle from its list of nature preserves so that it can be used for future road improvements.
There was audible muttering at Monday night’s meeting of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee when East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys presented a draft proposal to fix drainage and traffic issues at the complicated five-way intersection of Second House Road, Industrial Road, North Shore Road, and Midland Road, all near Fort Pond.
Gerard Drive, a mile-long peninsula that runs north to south on the east side of Springs, shielding Accabonac Harbor from Gardiner’s Bay, is one of the more environmentally sensitive areas in East Hampton Town. Along its entire length, only a single house has a swimming pool. At a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on Oct. 22, an applicant argued that it was time for another.
