Given a chance to make comments on recent legislative suggestions about the zoning code in East Hampton Town, the planning board, at its Sept. 25 meeting, chose to focus instead on a suggestion that wasn’t made: changing the least flashy but perhaps most consequential zoning tool at the town’s disposal, the table of dimensional regulations.

Lamenting changes to Sag Harbor, lamenting the housing problem, lamenting the mess that is our politics. Our readers unload.

Judging by the relative calm on Main Street at midweek since Labor Day, East Hampton’s population has returned to the seasonal, weekend-versus-midweek, boom-and-bust pattern of pre-Covid-19 days.