The Southampton Town Board voted before last weeks public hearing (Tuesday Dec 9) for only ten more deals of public comment; no more public hearings; a vote on the rezoning in mid January. It's key to forward comments to them and this site this week.. Please read the note from Maud Kramer, who served as President of Hampton Bays Beautification for 11 years, giving context for her letter to Bridget Fleming copied below: "Bridget sent the same letter to me as she wrote on the petition so I just sent her a reply. Maud". December 13, 2014 Dear Bridget, I appreciate your stating that you are still considering input from the community. However, when one reads your letter, the impression is that you have already made up your mind. You are addressing only the positive points of the CPI, which include the Nitrex system (positive), the appearance of the Superintendent of the Hampton Bays School District (positive) and that the mass on the canal property has been “significantly” reduced (positive) and you heard a few people speak favorably on the project’s potential benefit impact on economic revitalization ( again positive.) What worries me is that you do not mention the multitude of people, residents that elected you, and their distinct and direct wishes for this to not be approved. Did you not hear the many people who spoke against the rezoning and all the facts they put forward. You talk about the CPI being a place of deep affection for local residents. That is not the fact anymore. The majority of the people do not feel that way. The message has clearly been delivered in written form and verbally at the podium at the hearings repetitively. What I stated about the CPI was basically the applicant’s response in the Revised Plan. You can support the rebuilding of the CPI, but for the Canal Property, more importantly, you should support the guidelines in the Comprehensive Plan and other multiple completed and accepted plans. At current zoning, we do not need the input of the Superintendent of the Hampton Bays School District because multi-family housing is not allowed. Furthermore, the contribution to the School Tax is paltry and miniscule. Perhaps it might equal the salaries of a few in the district and almost negligible when compared to all the pertinent numbers. The reduced mass density that you talk about is 72.000.00 sq ft instead of 93.000.00 sq ft. Current zoning allows 17.176 sq ft. How can you say you are reducing the mass density when this project will increase density by 400% over existing use permissions? The townhouses have been reduced only 7.5% in size and the grading of the property is 100%. This is not a significant reduction in anyone’s eyes. With current zoning, there is no need to pump sewage to another neighborhood. The Eastern property is wooded and sloped and the excavation of that property for a sewage system for a development inconsistent with the Comprehensive Plan is truly troublesome. It is nice that Mr. McAllister suggests the Nitrex system could be a good launching point, but I would feel much better if it was launched and tested in an alternate location and so would all the neighbors that have consistently attended your meetings and pleaded with you not to allow this in their neighborhood. The revitalization of Hampton Bays started in the late 1990’s with a movie theater, restaurants and the King Kullen Town Center. We have become a destination due to our bays, boating, fishing, restaurants, and waterfront accessibility. I have lived in Hampton Bays for 30 years and been actively involved with my community for 19 years. I was the President of the Hampton Bays Beautification for 11 years. The vision and guidelines for the future of our community is documented in our Master Plans and we ask of you as our elected officials not to make this political, but refer to the numerous documents at hand. This is about zoning and planning for a community’s best potential and to keep a historic site public. In the past we have not had good zoning laws, so to let the densest development in the Town of Southampton go forward is wrong. Maud Kramer