Step into any municipal board meeting on the South Fork, whether it be East Hampton Village, Sag Harbor Village, Sagaponack Village, or East Hampton Town, and residents are requesting speed bumps to slow drivers down.
After completing a third work session in four months on proposed changes to the East Hampton Town zoning code, the town board agreed Tuesday that the next step was to bring the changes to a public hearing. Many members of the public and others directly involved with the zoning code amendment work group, a mixture of government and industry players who developed the proposals, spoke of the need to quickly move forward.
“People buy them from stores in the spring and then when they get big and messy, they no longer want them,” said Adrienne Gillespie, the hospital supervisor at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Refuge in Hampton Bays. “They find local ponds thinking they can survive, but they can’t for long.”
Richard Warren had come to Monday night’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee prepared with whiteboard, blueprints, facts and figures, to discuss the modernization of the 108-year-old Devon Yacht Club. What Mr. Warren, president and owner of the environmental planning firm Inter-Science Research Associates, was not prepared for was the dustup that followed his presentation.
