The Greenport Village Board drew another big crowd on the topic of regulating short-term rentals during a two-hour public hearing last Thursday. (more…)
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The mouth of Greenport’s Sterling Harbor is filling up with sand, and local officials say it needs to be dredged, something that hasn’t been done for a long time.
“My understanding in talking to a fair amount of boaters coming out of the creek is that they’re starting to run aground,” Trustee Mary Bess Phillips said at last Thursday’s Village Board work session. “It’s getting shallower and shallower as storms keep coming through.” READ
Green port Village’s latest proposed short-term rental law is pretty cut and dry.
“If you have a two-family house and it’s owner-occupied, you’re allowed to have a short-term rental,” Mayor George Hubbard Jr. said following an uneventful 19-minute Village Board meeting Thursday. “If you have a two-family house and it’s rented as a long-term rental, you’re allowed to have a short-term rental. Besides that, you can’t just buy a house and make it into two short-term rentals. You’re not going to be allowed to do that anymore in the village.”
That’s assuming the new proposal passes, Mr. Hubbard said. READ
A 115-foot-long Viking ship could be coming to Greenport.
At its meeting last Thursday, the Greenport Village Board held off on voting to allow the Draken Harald Hårfagre to dock in the village, saying it needed more information before voting. READ
The specifics of Greenport Village’s proposed law to limit short-term rentals in the village are now public. READ
Should the intersection of Route 48 and Route 25 in Greenport be converted into a traffic roundabout? READ
A group of bed and breakfast owners in Greenport wants the village to start regulating short-term rentals such as those advertised on web sites like AirBNB. READ
After months of discussion on reducing the speed limit throughout Greenport Village, the village board has decided to vote on a resolution to ask New York State to lower the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph on Front Street and Main Street, which are both state roads. READ
A proposal to put stop signs at the south ends of Fifth and Sixth streets in Greenport ran into some opposition at a public hearing May 24.
The plan would place a stop sign on both roads heading south at the intersection with Johnson Place, which connects the streets along the north side of the Fifth Street park. READ
According to statistics compiled recently by the Southold Town Police Department, about 90 percent of the cars on Main Street in Greenport are traveling within three percent of the 30 mph speed limit, and the highest speed recorded was 49 mph, according to Greenport Village Mayor George Hubbard Jr. READ
