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Sag Harbor Main Street Plans Advance

Thu, 01/02/2025 - 10:48
Jeremy Morton’s plans for a major redo of the properties at 2 Main Street in Sag Harbor, in the foreground, and 22 Long Island Avenue are moving along.
Denis Hartnett

The developer Jeremy Morton’s proposed renovations at 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue in Sag Harbor took another step forward on Dec. 18, when the village planning board unanimously approved a report by Nelson Pope Voorhis, consultants, detailing findings and comments from a presubmission conference on the project held in November.

The building at 2 Main Street is the home to K Pasa restaurant, Yummylicious, and the UPS Store, while 22 Long Island Avenue once housed the Sag Harbor 7-Eleven. Mr. Morton wants to add second-floor space to both buildings.

At the Dec. 18 meeting, Kathryn Eiseman, a partner and manager at Nelson Pope Voorhis, went through the report detailing the next steps for the project, the most important being the submission of a full site plan — the determining factor in the various permits that may be needed for renovations.

Mr. Morton also may need to file a petition for a special exemption permit regarding square footage, as the buildings are in a waterfront overlay district, and he will have to complete an environmental assessment ahead of a New York State environmental impact study.

And it doesn’t stop there. The project is facing approval from the village board for an increase in the sanitary flow from the properties, variances from the zoning board of appeals, and certificates of appropriateness for each structure from the historic preservation and architectural review board.

John Shaka, the chairman of the planning board, brought up how the project is going to intensify the use of the properties.

“If we are creating more uses or more tenants, we want to have a plan for each particular thing that’s important, whether it’s stormwater, whether it’s traffic flow, whether it’s parking,” Mr. Morton said, adding that it “will certainly be obvious in our application that we’ve been thinking about that for some time.”

When Susan Hewitt of the planning board asked what the planned second floors on the two buildings would be used for, Mr. Morton indicated that most would be office space. K Pasa already uses existing second floor space for its offices, he said, adding that there is a “proposal for a restaurant upstairs” at 22 Long Island Avenue.

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