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Condominiumization will violate the character of Cutchogue Hamlet and the North Fork. Please ask Southold Town Board to stop their doublespeak. If they support comprehensive planning, why aren't they doing it? Their excuses are not just political spin, they are intentional misrepresentation. The Planning Board can not stop overdevelopment, once an approval is granted it will be impossible to stop construction of a new community and destruction of our community. Only the Town Board has the power to legislate. The Town Board should enact a moratorium until relevant laws are enacted such as site plan design standards. If our Town Board continues to wait to see what happens, we know what will happen.

One of the impacts which the proponents of the Heritage at Cutchogue do not like to discuss is the developer realizes extraordinary profit at the cost of the community. The real question is why is our Southold Town government allowing it. The impacts of high density development on local tax rates is well established. The tax breaks condominium owners receive are documented here.

• What You Can Do -
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  Learn about the size and impacts of this development – See *.* TWO ROADS; Read *.* Reasons to Rezone and  *.* Positive Alternatives and Please visit the new Save Cutchogue Blog savecutchogue.blogspot.com! 
• Write, call and email members of the Southold Town Board and The Suffolk Times – Express your opinions and ask for preservation of farmland and protection of our community
• Join Group for Cutchogue email list – You will be kept updated on the time and place of meetings which involve this issue
• Attend Town Meetings – When many people show up at meetings it sends a clear message to the people that represent you (your Town Board) that we are counting on them to take action
• Put a www.SaveCutchogue.com sticker on you car – To keep this issue in front of our community and encourage others to visit this website
• See the 1st and 2nd DEIS*.* excerpts and a copy of the Planning Board's Review are posted on this website by Group for Cutchogue
• Watch Group for Cutchogue on TV, we have already taped two shows and more are in the works. A DVD of episode one is available; Tune in to Cablevision Channel 20 on 7pm Wednesdays

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Save Cutchogue Petition to Southold Town

Southold Town Residents call upon Southold Town government to take prompt and persistent action to halt development of the 139 luxury condominiums proposed as “Heritage at Cutchogue”.

The proposal is based on a fraudulent spot zoning in violation of the essential purpose of zoning. Zoning is about compatibility. A zone for high density luxury residential right next to an agricultural zone is wrong. The resulting proposal is out of synch and out of scale with Cutchogue Hamlet and Southold Town.

We ask the Town Board to immediately enact a moratorium to prevent construction beginning before the zoning of this property, and of other similarly zoned properties in Southold which are also facing imminent development, can be reconsidered and a rezoning can be enacted by the Town Board before it is to late.

*.* Act Now

Southold Town was considering revising land use regulations!

According to a memorandum dated November 18, 2007 by Heather Lanza, Town Planning Director to Scott Russell, Supervisor and the Members of the Town Board, Southold Town Code lacks residential site design standards and Southold Town lacks an updated and effective comprehensive plan.

Memo to: Scott Russell, Supervisor and Members of the Town Board
From: Heather Lanza, Town Planning Director

We agree with Cutchogue Town Board that the current development proposal is The suggested moratorium on residential site plans should be enacted as soon as possible. If we act now we can rezone, if we do not it may be too late! 

Southold Town planning department is short staffed, a moratorium for time to plan would also provide time to hire and train new staff.

Suffolk County Water Authority has been expanding rapidly on the North Fork peninsula. Initial agreements to limit availablity of public water to existing development with water quality problems have been surreptitiously replaced by acceptance of using public water imported from Riverhead to supply new developments. 

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