READ Southampton Press Article Neighbors Win Round Lawsuit targeting canal development advances. Dear Friends and Neighbors, If you cannot attend this evening’s Planning Board hearing at 6pm at Southampton Town Hall..... here’s a sample letter that you can send in your place…. to copy and paste and add comments to… Please: take a few minutes as we need everyone’s voice heard, placed in the record. Send your letter to: Patricia Boudreau-Sullivan: pboudreau@southamptontownny.gov thank you. Hope Sample Letter: Dear Patricia, Please confirm this email has been forwarded to all Southampton Town Planning Board Members before todays public hearing and today to all County Planing Members. Please also enter into Town and also County public records. Your name here Hamlet or Village Town of Southampton September 8, 2016 RE: Planning Board Resolution 25546 Canal and Eastern Properties (CPICE Maritime Planned Development District) Dear Board Chairperson Dennis Finnerty, Vice Chairperson John Blaney, Board Members Cathie Gandel Philip A. Keith, Jacqui Lofaro, Robin Long, John Zuccarelli: I’ve had a home in the Town of Southampton for ___ years: the proposed site Plans are of critical concern to all our lives because the Canal is the Gateway to the East End. Your Board is responsible to ensure our health and safety: we travel these roads, swim in the Bays, drink water from the aquifer within the South Shore Estuary Reserve Watershed and Peconic Estuary Critical Environmental Area. I’m in support of the claims made by Shinnecock Neighbors: please refer to their suit to overturn the zone change "Shinnecock Neighbors, et al v Town of Southampton et al. Index No: 08276/2015, to preserve water quality and the environment of the Shinnecock Canal threatened by overdevelopment due to this zone change. The Judge confirmed “standing” to Shinnecock Neighbors, individually to four petitioners. Since they filed this challenge, a moratorium on PDD’s was instituted by new Town of Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman and Town Board. A pledge that helped win Schneiderman and two Town Board Candidates, Loftstad and Bouvier, election. The people spoke: please honor our voices and votes, halt all considerations and discussions on these site plans until the Judge has ruled on the legality of the zone change to a PDD. Remember that the developer - not taxpayers - must be solely responsible for all expenses related to construction: these are improvements, investments for the property owners profitability. In addition, all details must be agreed upon in contractual form and signed before any site plan is approved by you and Town residents. There is no consensus on a public benefit in the CPI site Plan as required by Law: to pay to use the facilitates of the Inn is a public charge. The developer’s right to construct the Townhouses is based on fulfilling this requirement for the CPI reconstruction. We request the site plans be denied. At the very least “tabled" until the Judge makes a decision in our lawsuit. Thank you for your consideration. Your name Hamlet or Village Town of ____