This fall, Sharon McCobb, widely considered an ideal citizen here, lost the lease on the house she rented with her husband, falling victim to the town’s affordable housing crisis. So they packed up and moved to Chester, Vt.
A petition urging East Hampton Town to allow licensed cannabis retail dispensaries popped up recently on change.org, arguing that a regulated cannabis market would increase community safety and foster opportunities for economic growth.
A church seeking to stockpile construction materials on its site was front and center on the Dec. 4 agenda of the East Hampton Town Planning Board.
“If not used for a private business, the applicant should explain the church operations which require a stockpile of construction materials on site,” read a dry note in a Planning Department memo about the Hampton Church’s application. The church, at 69 Industrial Road in Wainscott, is seeking to expand and improve its parking lot and to legalize an outside storage area.
The developer Jeremy Morton’s proposed renovations for the K Pasa and former 7-Eleven buildings in Sag Harbor took another step forward last month, with more review ahead.
