The Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals voted on Dec. 17 to close a public hearing on the planned expansion of the restaurant Page at 63 Main Street, and has directed the village attorney to draft a decision that the board will then vote on at its next meeting. The plans involve making use of the second floor.
Scott Baker, chairman of the zoning board, listed three conditions the board elected to add to that decision based on discussions at the public hearing held on Nov. 19.
“One was that Back Page will not have any wait service,” Mr. Baker said, referring to a rear patio seating area covered with an awning. “The other one was that there will be no second-floor outdoor dining, and then the other question was about the delivery parking and if it used the space that they had.”
The question of deliveries had been a point of contention at the previous public hearing. Tiffany Scarlato, an attorney representing Page, said she had spoken to the owners and the employees of the restaurant and informed the board that should the renovation go as planned, deliveries could actually be easier.
“They don’t anticipate any additional deliveries,” Ms. Scarlato said, “but they actually will have a parking space back there they can utilize for deliveries, whereas they don’t currently have one.”
The restaurant’s planned expansion is based on a 2014 zoning code amendment in Sag Harbor that allowed restaurants to reduce the amount of parking they are required to provide, from one space for every three seats to one space for every four seats. At present, however, Page does not have the floor space for more seating in accordance with New York State building codes.
The expansion to the second floor would net 41 new seats, bringing the total to 165. The second-floor zoning classification would have to be changed from residential use to commercial use. If approved, the overall square footage of the restaurant would expand from 3,806 square feet to 6,415 square feet.
Page at 63 Main is scheduled to go before the planning board on Jan. 28. As of this reporting, the zoning board of appeals had not yet scheduled a date for its meeting this month.
