Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan
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Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Prepared for Town of Southampton Hutton Associates Inc. Strategic Planning/ Urban Design One Union Square West New York NY 10003 (212) 206-0460 [email protected] In association with L. K. McLean Associates PC Marshall Paetzel Landscape Architects PC Submitted May 2008 Revised: July 2010 Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Draft Report May 2008 (Revised 1/09, 9/09, 1/10) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hutton Associates Inc. Page 2 Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Draft Report May 2008 (Revised 1/09, 9/09, 1/10) Ad Hoc Advisory Committee Town Board Members Jefferson V. Murphree, AICP, 2010 Town Planning and Development Administrator Dennis Finnerty, Chairman, Planning Board Hon. Anna Thorne-Holst, Town Supervisor Current Draft Hon. Nancy S. Graboski Gerard Buckley, Hampton Bays Fire District Hon. James W. Malone Jack Capone, Business Hon. Christopher R. Nuzzi Dr. Scott Carlin, Hampton Bays Civic Association Richard Casabianca, Hampton Bays Historical and Preservation Society Susan von Freddi, Hampton Bays Beautification Association Stan Glinka, Chamber of Commerce Mary Jean Green, Hampton Bays Civic Association Eve Houlihan, Hampton Bays Civic Association John Zuccarelli, Citizens Advisory Committee Initial Planning Ron Garrone, Chamber of Commerce Maud Kramer, Hampton Bays Beautification Carl Schottenhamel, Hampton Bays Ambulance John Sullivan, Hampton Bays Beautification Barbara Moeller, Hampton Bays Historical Society Christopher Catz, Board of Education J. T. Thomas, Business ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hutton Associates Inc. Page 3 Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Draft Report May 2008 (Revised 1/09, 9/09, 1/10) Credits Hutton Associates Inc. Town of Southampton One Union Square West Suite 901 Geographic Information Systems New York NY 10003 Department of Land Management [email protected] Jefferson V. Murphree AICP Ernest W. Hutton, Jr. FAICP Assoc AIA Town Planning and Development Administrator Principal-in-Charge Freda Eisenberg AICP In association with Asst Town Planning and Development Administrator L. K. McLean Associates PC David Wilcox AICP Raymond G. DiBiase PE, Principal Director of Planning Marshall Paetzel Landscape Architects Janice Scherer AICP Stacy Paetzel ASLA, Principal Principal Planner Diane Neill Principal Planner ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hutton Associates Inc. Page 4 Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Draft Report May 2008 (Revised 1/09, 9/09, 1/10) Table of Contents Introduction: Overview of Work Process………7 3. Implementation Tools and Techniques 1. Hampton Bays Corridor: Issues and Opportunities 3.1 Existing and Proposed Zoning…………………….…49 1.1 Community Needs and Objectives …………….. 9 3.2 Further Planning and Transportation Analysis………62 1.2 Development Issues and Opportunities ………..10 2. Corridor Development Strategy: 4. Next Steps and Conclusion Integrated Transportation/ Land Use/ Design 4.1 Early Action Steps………………………………….. 63 2.1 A Vision for the Corridor: Conceptual Plan……13 4.2 Conclusion………....………………….………………64 2.2 Framework Plans…...………………………… 17 2.3. Detailed Plans…………………………………. 21 1) Western Area…………………………21 APPENDIX: Transportation 2) Central Area……………… …………25 Framework……...…………………………………..…….66 3) Eastern Area……………………………41 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hutton Associates Inc. Page 5 Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Draft Report May 2008 (Revised 1/09, 9/09, 1/10) List of Figures page 1 Corridor Concept Plan……………………………..... 15 2 Western Framework Plan………………………….... 18 3 Central Framework Plan……………………………... 19 4 Eastern Framework Plan……………………………... 20 5 Central Area Illustrative Plan………………………... 30 6 East of Hamlet Center Development………………… 38 7 Western Sector Zoning …………………………….... 55 8 Central Sector Zoning……………………………...... 58 9 Eastern Sector Zoning……………………………...... 43 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hutton Associates Inc. Page 6 Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Draft Report May 2008 (Revised 1/09, 9/09, 1/10) Introduction moment, would have their friends push them in a wheelbarrow to the faculty juries at which their projects would be judged— In 1999, Hutton Associates Inc. prepared the Hampton Bays much to the bemusement of curious passers-by. The term Hamlet Center Strategy, which examined the variety of projects ‘charrette’ has therefore come to mean an intensive and open proposed at that time for the hamlet center and recommended work process leading to a public presentation—used most planning and design criteria to coordinate development and often in recent years in community based planning and design achieve community objectives. The development of the Strategy processes. took place as an intensive ‘charrette-based’ process which involved a variety of community participants, both individuals and The first Hampton Bays Center planning process in 1999 used civic organizations, as well as private developers and public this process to great advantage as a means of achieving officials. It was the first in a series of projects (including the community consensus for strategic decisions. subsequent Water Mill Hamlet Center Strategy and its recent update, the Noyac Hamlet Center Strategy, and the Riverside The 2006 charrette began with a Saturday morning public Hamlet Center Strategy) to implement through detailed studies the forum for residents at large (this date was requested by the Town of Southampton Comprehensive Plan Update, approved by advisory committee in order to make possible the opportunity the Town Board in March 1999. That comprehensive planning for input from weekend as well as permanent residents). The process itself included extensive public participation. first result of the small group discussions and large group recap was an outline of positive elements along the corridor Like these other recent studies, the dual community-driven (items to be preserved and maintained) and negative issues (to objective in creating this Corridor Development Strategy was be changed or improved). The concluding result was a series collaboration and participation. This objective was met through of visions for the corridor—what participants wanted to see in a series of outreach efforts to the community. ten years’ time, ideas for detailed examination in the days As an example of this outreach, the team got its initial input, not following. only from its own research and site analysis, but also through workshops with the ad-hoc advisory committee and Town Based on these suggested ideas, consultants and associated Department of Land Management staff. It also held meetings and Town staff met over the next week and engaged in a four-day interviews with private landowners or developers and local intensive open work session, held in the St. Rosalie Church community stakeholders, including the Hampton Bays Community activity center in the heart of Hampton Bays. The team met Advisory Committee (CAC) and the Hampton Bays Civic with invited stakeholders and welcomed the public to look Association. over their shoulders and react to plans and proposals. The A ‘charrette’ derives its name from the French word for results were presented in an open public meeting at the ‘wheelbarrow.’ The reason for the rather strange terminology is Hampton Bays High School, followed by an interactive that architecture students at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris in discussion with the audience. the nineteenth century, chronically working to the last possible ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hutton Associates Inc. Page 7 Hampton Bays Corridor Strategic Plan Draft Report May 2008 (Revised 1/09, 9/09, 1/10) In the weeks following the charrette, members of the larger With official town approval of this document as a concept planning team held further sessions with various entities, in order plan—part of the Town’s Comprehensive Plan Update— to test conclusions and discuss opportunities for implementation. further detailed planning and design can be conducted in These included followup conversations with town officials, not-for- specific areas, zoning recommendations drafted and profit civic representatives, property owners and private business implemented, and development agreements negotiated, setting interests. The schedule also included public presentations to Town the stage for future development of the Hampton Bays corridor officials, the Town Board and the Planning Commission. area that is in keeping with the surrounding context and the wishes of the community. The project report was essentially completed within six months of the charrette, but was held for potential update or revision in conjunction with the Generic Environmental Impact statement for Hampton Bays of which the Corridor is a part. Scoping for the GEIS elicited strong community interest in a number of planning concerns beyond the original objectives of this corridor study, including a desire to look at issues from a hamlet-wide perspective rather than that of the Montauk Highway corridor. Consequently, the initial draft of this Corridor Strategy has been augmented with material based on the work of the