Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to address a statewide housing shortage by building 800,000 new residences over the next decade has been removed from the state’s 2024 executive budget. Widely panned here, it would have effectively eliminated “decades of work put into creating our own local zoning, building, and environmental regulations,” an East Hampton Town planner told the town board last month.
A steel boat built by the late Stuart Vorpahl, a fisherman, historian, town trustee, secretary of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association, and descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families, landed at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum and is now on view there.
The petition, in the form of an open letter to the East Hampton Town Board, calls for a reduction in allowable house size and clearing, review and amendment of the zoning code, and a moratorium on large construction. As of Wednesday morning, 300 people had signed it.
End Citizens United has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Representative Nick LaLota of New York’s First Congressional District, his 2022 campaign for Congress, his campaign treasurer, and his 2020 State Senate campaign violated the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act and F.E.C. regulations.
