Site Plans for the CPI Shinnecock Canal Zone Change have been separated into the Eastern Side of the Canal (Townhouses and Nitrex system not yet scheduled for hearing) and the Canoe Place Inn (CPI) awaiting denial or approval by our Town Planning Board who’s responsible to ensure health and safety. They honored my request (May 26, 2016) to allow public comment for an additional thirty days: since then I’ve learned information relevant to all taxpayers, reason for reopening the CPI Site Plan application.   1- There’s no evaluation nor assessment detailing expenses assumed by the Developers  - that should not be paid by Taxpayers - for managing traffic flow throughout their project including demolition, new construction and road changes at one of the most heavily trafficked areas on the east end. No plan or expense schedule is in place for lessening this costly disruption thrust on our neighborhood, our Town. Nor for  the expense of altering bus, public and school, routes. The resulting costs are part and parcel to the Developers investment to maximize business profitability of the CPI. Yet the Developer is freely gaining public lands to make a lawn and new access routes to their business that were Public safety traffic lanes. All details must be agreed to in writing (standard business practice) and in full compliance with the law BEFORE any Site Plan approval. Only then can a decision be made on merit. We must have assurances that our health and safety as well as our town’s finances are protected because its apparent this construction will only worsen an already hazardous congested traffic area at a site closed to business for years. Proposed road changes do not improve safety: I’m not alone in this opinion as the Planning Board also heard from Bruce Doscher ( http://southamptonny.iqm2.com/Citizens/SplitView.aspx?Mode=Video&MeetingID=3451&MinutesID=3099&Format=Minutes&MediaFileFormat=ismv).                                                                                                The CPI Site Plan must also include: 2- a detailed list of materials for the restoration of the Canoe Place Inn to realize what was promised 3- a public benefit as required by Law because to pay to use Canoe Place Inn facilitates is a public charge.  It’s vitally important that Everyone personally responds to Planning Board Chairperson Dennis Finnerty request for comments: write that our Southampton Planning Board must deny or reopen the Canoe Place Inn Site Plan application until these issues are resolved in favor of public interest. The current plan clearly fails to address public safety and the horrendous traffic hazards that will only worsen, harm the Public and Environment. This was recognized by our new Supervisor Jay Schneiderman when he introduced a PDD moratorium passed with the support of Councilpersons John Bouvier and Julie Lofstad. You can copy/edit/add comments (below) whats composed and paste into an email to the addresses listed. Send letters, comments to these addresses: pboudreau-sullivan@southamptontownny.gov JScherer@southamptontownny.gov sschermeyer@southamptontownny.gov cc: to@hopesandrow.com Subject line: Reopen or Deny CPI Site Plan Body text: copy/edit/add comments and paste Patricia, Please confirm my email has been forwarded to each Commissioner for consideration; entered in the public record. Thank you. (Your name, Southampton Town or area such as Shinnecock Hills, Hampton Bays, Sag Harbor et al) RE: Canoe Place Inn Site Plan Canoe Place Inn, Town of Southampton 0900 20700 0500 003000, 004000 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 here for ___ years: the proposed Canoe Place Inn Site Plan before you is important to my daily life. Your Board is responsible to ensure my health and safety: I travel these roads, swim in the Peconic and Shinnecock Bays, drink water from the aquifer within the South Shore Estuary Reserve Watershed and Peconic Estuary Critical Environmental Area. I request our Planning Board to deny or reopen the Canoe Place Inn Site Plan application until these issues are resolved to my satisfaction: 1) An evaluation and assessment detailing the Developers plans for managing traffic flow must be conducted as well as their assuming the expense. Including altering bus, public and school, routes.  The developer is freely gaining public lands to make a lawn and new access routes to a business that were our, the Public, safety traffic lanes. The Developer must be solely responsible for these expenses: not taxpayers. These costs are the result of making improvements, investments to increase the Developers project profitability. All details must be agreed to in writing (standard business practice) and in full compliance with the law BEFORE site plan approval. Only then can a decision be made based on merit. We must have assurances that our health and safety as well as our town’s finances are being protected because its apparent this construction will only worsen an already hazardous congested traffic area.  Proposed road changes in and around the Canoe Place Inn do not improve nor insure the safety of the public as required. I’m not alone in this opinion as you heard in detail during your May 26 hearing from residents Hope Sandrow and Bruce Doscher.                                                                                                  The increased traffic at this newly opened business, from service vehicles (laundry to food to waste), staff, contract employees, and guests will add to the problem since the site has  been closed for years. 2) A detailed list of materials for the restoration of the Canoe Place Inn must be written in the Canoe Place Inn Site Plan in order to realize what we were promised. 3) There's is no consensus on a public benefit in the Canoe Place Inn Site Plan as required by Law: to pay to use Canoe Place Inn facilitates is a public charge.  The Canoe Place Inn Site Plan must be reopened or denied. It clearly fails to address public safety and the horrendous traffic hazards that will only worsen current deplorable traffic conditions.  Deficiencies in the CPI Site plan and noncompliance with the law that I have listed will harm the Public and the Environment.  If not denied there should be no approval to the Canoe Place Inn Site Plan by Town Planning Board until my concerns are addressed. Only then can I, and all Town Residents, determine when the project should proceed. Thank you for your consideration. Your name Southampton