The Hills at Southampton MUPDD Application Final EIS APPENDIX E NOTICE OF SPECIAL PUBLIC HEARING DATE, AND HEARING TRANSCRIPT Town Board February 7, 2017 Note: See flash drive or CD in front pocket of Volume I of FEIS for access to this appendix. JAY SCHNEIDERMAN TOWN OF Telephone: (631) 283-6055 Supervisor SOUTHAMPTON Fax: (631) 287-5708 116 Hampton Road, Southampton, NY 11968 [email protected] TO: Members of the Town Board RE: SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT pursuant to Section 62 of Town Law, a Special Town Board Meeting will be held in the Auditorium of Southampton Town Hall, 116 Hampton Road, Southampton, New York on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 for the purpose of considering the following: Public Hearing to hear any and all persons on the subject of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) related to a zone change petition entitled "The Hills at Southampton" requesting to change four separate land holdings totaling 591 acres located in the Hamlet of East Quogue, from Residential 200 (CR200) to Mixed-Use Planned Development District (MUPDD) (adjourned from November 7, 2016, December 5, 2016, and January 10, 2017 Special Town Board Meetings) __________________________________ JAY SCHNEIDERMAN, SUPERVISOR TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON Dated: January 25, 2017 Southampton, New York In The Matter Of: THE HILLS - PUBLIC HEARING ________________________________________________________________ MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING February 7, 2017 ______________________________________________ TC REPORTING, INC. 1 DEERFIELD EAST - 1850 QUOGUE, NY. 11959 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING - Vol. IV 624 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING FEBRUARY 7, 2017 6:02 P.M. VOLUME IV Terri Fudens Court reporter MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 625 1 TOWN BOARD APPEARANCES: 2 3 Sundy A. Schermeyer - Town Clerk 4 Jay Schneiderman - Town Supervisor 5 Christine P. Scalera - Council Person 6 Stan J. Glinka - Council Person 7 Julie Lofstad - Council Person 8 John Bouvier - Council Person 9 James M. Burke, Town Attorney 10 11 * * * * * 12 13 Mark Hissey - SVP, Discovery Land Company 14 Ed DiVita - Partner, Discovery Land Company 15 Chic Voorhis - Principal, Nelson, Pope and Voorhis 16 Wayne Bruyn - Attorney, O'Shea Marcincuk and Bruyn 17 Don Vita - President, VITA Planning and Landscape Architecture 18 Paul Grosser, Ph.D., PE, P W Grosser and Assoc. 19 Bob Grover, Ecologist, Greenman Pedersen Inc. 20 Steve Adelson, Partner and COO, Discovery Land Co. 21 22 23 24 TC REPORTING (516) 795-7444 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 626 1 SUPERVISOR SCHNEIDERMAN: Good 2 evening everyone. If you could please turn 3 your cell phone ringers off. Thank you. If 4 you haven't found a seat, try to do so. I 5 see there's quite a number of empty seats. 6 I'd like to call this special meeting of the 7 Town Board on this 7th day of February to 8 order. 9 Please rise and join us for the 10 Pledge of Allegiance lead by our Town Clerk 11 Sundy Schermeyer. 12 (At this time, the Pledge of 13 Allegiance was recited.) 14 SUPERVISOR SCHNEIDERMAN: If you 15 could just remain standing for a brief 16 moment of silence as we join together and 17 keep in our thoughts and prayers all the 18 brave men and women of our armed services 19 who put their lives on the line in defense 20 of our freedoms. 21 In particular we mourn the life of 22 Chief Petty Officer William Ryan Owens, a 23 Navy Seal who died in a raid in Yemen, an 24 Al-Qaeda raid just about a week ago. So TC REPORTING (516) 795-7444 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 627 1 let's pause together in his memory and as we 2 keep all the others in our hearts. 3 Thank you. 4 Madam Clerk, would you read the 5 special hearing -- special meeting notice 6 and then call the role, please. 7 TOWN CLERK SCHERMEYER: Members of 8 the Town Board, Special Town Board Meeting, 9 Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 6 p.m. 10 Please be advised that pursuant to 11 Section 62 of Town Law, a special Town Board 12 meeting will be held in the auditorium of 13 Southampton Town Hall, 116 Hampton Road, 14 Southampton, New York on Tuesday, 15 February 7, 2017 for the purpose of 16 considering the following: 17 Public hearing to hear any and all 18 persons on the subject of a Draft 19 Environmental Impact Statement, DEIS, 20 related to a zone change petition entitled 21 the Hills at Southampton requesting a change 22 for separate land holding totaling 591 acres 23 located in the Hamlet of East Quogue, from 24 residential 200, CR 200, to Mixed Use Plan TC REPORTING (516) 795-7444 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 628 1 Development District, MUPDD, adjourned from 2 November 7, 2016, December 5, 2016 and 3 January 10, 2017, Special Town Board 4 Meetings. Jay Schneiderman, Supervisor, 5 Town of Southampton, January 25, 2017. 6 Supervisor Schneiderman. 7 SUPERVISOR SCHNEIDERMAN: Present. 8 TOWN CLERK SCHERMEYER: Councilwoman 9 Lofstad. 10 COUNCILWOMAN LOFSTAD: Here. 11 TOWN CLERK SCHERMEYER: Councilwoman 12 Scalera. 13 COUNCILWOMAN SCALERA: Here. 14 TOWN CLERK SCHERMEYER: Councilman 15 Bouvier. 16 COUNCILMAN BOUVIER: Here. 17 TOWN CLERK SCHERMEYER: Councilman 18 Glinka. 19 COUNCILMAN GLINKA: Here. 20 SUPERVISOR SCHNEIDERMAN: Before we 21 go on, I just want to check on the sound. 22 It sounds like there's a reverberation, 23 Charlie. 24 CHARLIE: Working on it. TC REPORTING (516) 795-7444 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 629 1 SUPERVISOR SCHNEIDERMAN: We'll 2 proceed while you work on that, because I 3 don't want to lose any time. 4 So we have one thing to do before we 5 go to the public hearing. I just have to 6 make a motion to approve the minutes from 7 our last Special Town Board Meeting of 8 January 10, 2017. 9 COUNCILWOMAN SCALERA: Second. 10 SUPERVISOR SCHNEIDERMAN: Seconded by 11 Councilwoman Scalera. 12 All in favor. 13 ALL BOARD MEMBERS: Aye. 14 SUPERVISOR SCHNEIDERMAN: Approved. 15 So we all know why we're here. This 16 is the fourth and I believe the last public 17 hearing on the application by Discovery Land 18 Corporation to build a golf course and 19 resort housing incorporated with that golf 20 course in property in East Quogue. 21 Tom Collins, who is our land planning 22 and development administrator is here to 23 just very briefly introduce this, and then 24 we're going to go right to public hearing. TC REPORTING (516) 795-7444 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 630 1 When we go to public hearing, you all 2 -- most already know you have to fill out a 3 card. I'm going to limit each speaker to 4 three minutes, no more. The time is going 5 to be strictly kept. People who have not 6 yet had a chance to speak, because this is a 7 continuation of the other three hearings, 8 people who have not yet spoken will be given 9 the first priority in the order that their 10 cards were received. 11 Then everyone else who has spoken at 12 an earlier hearing will also have an 13 opportunity to speak again. We ask if you 14 said it already, it's already in the record, 15 you don't have to say it again. If you want 16 to, you can. If you want to add something 17 new, that is certainly preferable, to add 18 new information to the record. 19 I just ask -- I know that feelings 20 are deep on both sides of this. Please be 21 completely respectful of the speaker whether 22 you agree, whether you disagree. Do not 23 interrupt them. Allow them to get through 24 what they want to say. TC REPORTING (516) 795-7444 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 631 1 It's not easy speaking in front of a 2 crowd of probably a couple hundred people. 3 Show them respect, please. It doesn't help 4 your cause to interrupt with geers, boos, or 5 anything like that. Just let the people 6 speak, and then you'll get your chance to 7 speak as well. 8 So I'm going turn it over to Kyle, 9 and he's going to introduce it. 10 MR. COLLINS: Good evening. I just 11 want to remind the Board and the public the 12 intention of this public hearing -- this 13 public hearing is on the DEIS, public 14 hearing accounted for under the State 15 Environmental Quality Review Act, and the 16 intention of the public hearing is to allow 17 the public the opportunity to provide 18 comment on any environmental issues that 19 were raised in the Draft Environmental 20 Impact Statement, as well as on the possible 21 alternatives and the mitigation offered to 22 those alternatives. 23 In addition to the public comments 24 that are made at this hearing, as well as TC REPORTING (516) 795-7444 MINUTES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN BOARD MEETING 632 1 the previous hearings, the public also has 2 the opportunity to submit comments in 3 writing, which all will be taken under 4 consideration in the preparation of the 5 final Environmental Impact Statement. 6 The final Environmental Impact 7 Statement is a review of the comments 8 received to date as part of the public 9 hearing process as well as from other 10 involved agencies, and ultimately culminate 11 in the SEQUA findings.