03.27.2022 Government Town Board declines request by civic groups to form comp plan committee The Southold Town Board declined a request from North Fork civic associations to establish an advisory committee to help implement the town’s comprehensive plan. Local civic groups wrote in...
11.09.2021 Government With comprehensive plan ready, town may bring in consultant to help with zoning and land use Southold plans to hire a consultant for zoning and land use, as the town takes the next step towards implementing recommendations from its comprehensive plan. A decade in the...
09.17.2020 Columns Guest Column: Comprehensive plan fails to address critical public health issue After years of effort, the Town of Southold has a final draft of its Comprehensive Plan. This deals with a multiplicity of important and complex problems facing the town....
04.21.2019 Columns Guest Spot: Is processing on farms good for Southold? Southold Town is wrapping up its comprehensive plan, but code changes being proposed by the town to allow processing on farmland fail to consider the negative impacts of exempting...
02.13.2019 Government Town considers moratorium on Main Road development Southold Town officials are considering a six-month moratorium on new construction along Main Road in Mattituck as they await the results of a traffic study and continue to work...
01.25.2016 Government Planning Board notes: Sports East, Heritage at Cutchogue, Comp Plan The Southold Town Planning Board recommended that the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals hold off its review of a sports facility proposal since an environmental study is also required.
08.25.2015 Government Forum set for land-use chapter of comprehensive plan The Southold Planning Department will host a public forum in East Marion Thursday night to discuss the land-use chapter of the town’s drafted “Southold 2020” comprehensive plan for that...
05.06.2014 Government Town schedules mobile meetings to discuss comprehensive plan Seeking more public input to develop the next chapter of its 2020 comprehensive plan, Southold Town is hosting seven mobile meetings to discuss land use in each hamlet.
05.05.2014 Government Town to discuss land use chapter of new comp plan Southold Town Board members will be discussing the next chapter of the 2020 Comprehensive Plan at a public work session Tuesday morning in Town Hall.
03.22.2013 News Rising sea levels, climate change dominates discussion of comp plan The land resources section of Southold’s new comprehensive plan covers everything from protecting historic trees to destroying phragmites to rebuilding salt marshes and conserving energy. But it was a...