A web page program for a combined-use setting up along Route 25 in Southold continue to requires a condition environmental excellent overview, the Southold Preparing Board mentioned at a conference final Monday.
Hard Corner Partners LLC has proposed a two-tale blended use developing with a rear parking space that would entrance Route 25 on the corner of Wells Avenue, across from the Feather Hill complicated. Preparing Board associates stated that the applicant has achieved past requests and enter is wanted from the city engineer, as nicely as a SEQRA willpower.
The first floor would provide a few retail units, with 1 that could allow for a restaurant or deli, and the second floor would include a few reasonably priced flats. Further more down Wells Avenue would be four rental solitary-family members dwellings for ages 55 and more mature. All four of the solitary-loved ones rental models would be 1,597 square toes, with particular person wastewater therapy techniques.
The application even now desires wastewater acceptance from the Suffolk County Department of Well being Services. The 2.28-acre vacant parcel is in the Hamlet Business enterprise zoning district.
The prepare has many updates, together with a wider curb slice and added avenue trees together Most important Highway and Wells Avenue. There would also be bicycle racks at the again of the making and a fireplace hydrant and sidewalk included along Wells Avenue.
Some Preparing Board associates expressed worry about traffic affect, including the cumulative influence of all assignments planned along Key Highway.
In a Dec. 7 email included with the internet site program, the state Department of Transportation reported it does not hope substantial impression so no modifications are needed for the intersection of Wells Avenue and Most important Street. The section did observe, even so, that the applicant really should utilize for a NYSDOT permit to perform in state appropriate of way the sidewalk should really have a least width of 5 feet and the sidewalk and suppress ramps need to be ADA-compliant and meet up with DOT specifications.
Preparing files on the web-site point out that site visitors security has been raised as a issue in the earlier by the community and Arranging Board users. Other general public problems, expressed at earlier community hearings and as a result of letters and e-mails to the town, have provided natural topography and drinking water run-off, the loss of wildlife and degradation to group character.
An August letter published on behalf of the applicant emphasizes that only around two acres are becoming made the parcel is in the coronary heart of the Hamlet Density/HALO place of the Southold hamlet the uses match city dreams expressed in hamlet scientific tests and the comprehensive plan and the parcel is “complemented by a compact number of little, one-loved ones residences, all of which will have backyards the place excellent trees and bunnies can thrive.”
The software is due to appear in advance of the Arranging Board once more on March 28.
“I assume it would be a really optimistic addition to the neighborhood,” Robert Brown, an architect for the job, explained to The Suffolk Moments.