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1 TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK : STATE OF NEW YORK
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SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD
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7 Southold, New York
8 March 10 , 2026
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14 B E F 0 R E :
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16 ALBERT KRUPSKI JR, SUPERVISOR
17 KATE STEVENS , JUSTICE
18 BRIAN MEALY, COUNCILMAN
19 ANNE SMITH, COUNCILWOMAN
20 ALEXA SUESS , COUNCILWOMAN
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MARCH 10, 2026 REGULAR MEETING 2
1 INDEX TO TESTIMONY
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3 Public Hearing
4 Chapter 280 , Wireless Communication 3-4
5 Chapter 185 & Chapter 17 4-20
Open Space Acquisition,
6 Southold Ventures Inc .
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Public Comments 21-82
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1 CHAPTER 280 , WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : So
3 the first public hearing is chapter
4 change to 280 on Wireless
5 Communication, which is the cell
6 tower . There has been a change in
7 that proposed change of the law
8 that ' s substantial enough to warrant
9 reposting the notice so that
10 everybody has the time to review the
11 change . So I would make a motion to
12 table that public hearing until we
13 can re-notice it . It ' s a small
14 change , but it ' s enough . We want to
15 do it properly . This is an important
16 topic, and we want to make the right
17 change that everyone has a chance .
18 So I ' ll make that .
19 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : I
20 second that .
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
22 in favor?
23 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye .
24 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : Aye .
25 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Aye .
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1 JUSTICE KATE STEVENS : Aye .
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Aye .
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4 Chapter 185 & Chapter 17 Open Space
5 Acquisition, Southold Ventures Inc .
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
7 right . Second hearing is the open
8 space acquisition of Southold
9 Ventures .
10 TOWN CLERK DENIS NONCARROW : So
11 this proposed public hearing is to
12 consider a proposed contract to
13 purchase pursuant to Chapter 185 ,
14 Open Space Preservation, and Chapter
15 17 , Community Preservation Fund .
16 Property from Southold Ventures
17 Incorporated . The property is known
18 as Tax Map Number as listed,
19 consisting of approximately 54 acres
20 located at 2955 Albertson Lane in
21 Greenport, New York . This
22 acquisition is for a 50% partnership
23 with the County of Suffolk for
24 $120 , 000 per acre, for a total price
25 of $ 6 , 495 , 600 total . To be funded by
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1 the Town ' s Community Preservation
2 Fund and the County of Suffolk .
3 Legal notices for this public hearing
4 are published no less than 10 days
5 prior to the public hearing in an
6 eligible town newspaper . The Town
7 Clerk ' s Office has received the
8 Affidavit of Service from the
9 newspaper indicating that the notice
10 was published . The Town Clerk file
11 also includes an Affidavit of Posting
12 on the public notice, on the Town ' s
13 bulletin board at Town Hall .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 Thank you, Mr . Clerk . Mr . Johnson,
16 are all the notifications in order?
17 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY BENJAMIN
18 JOHNSON : Yes , Mr . Krupski .
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
20 Thank you .
21 ASST . TOWN ATTORNEY BENJAMIN
22 JOHNSON : They are in order .
23 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
24 Thank you . All right . Now, our Land
25 Preservation Coordinator, Lilly
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1 McCullough, if you could come up and
2 explain the purchase .
3 LILLY MCCULLOUGH : All right .
4 Hi , everybody . Oh, this is very
5 loud . My name is Lillian McCullough .
6 I ' m the Towns Land Preservation
7 Coordinator . The property we ' re
8 talking about today is the Southold
9 Adventures property . It is 54 . 13
10 acres thereabouts . This will be a
11 joint 50-50 acquisition with the
12 County of Suffolk . The County has
13 asked to handle long-term management
14 of the property, which it would
15 manage in conjunction with the 76
16 acres of open space that it owns
17 directly across the street to the
18 east . For the folks on Zoom, the
19 property we ' re talking about is just
20 to the left of -- or west of the sort
21 of Indigo large block there . For
22 folks in the room, it ' s this
23 property . The total purchase price
24 is $120 , 000 per acre, which is
25 estimated to be $ 6 , 495 , 600 . That
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1 will be subject to a final survey .
2 The CPF project plan reasons for
3 acquisition here are the
4 establishment of parks , nature
5 preserves , and recreation areas , the
6 preservation of open space, the
7 preservation of fresh and saltwater
8 marshes , and the establishment of
9 wildlife refuges to protect native
10 biodiversity . Including rare ,
11 threatened, and endangered species
12 habitat . It ' s also important to
13 watershed and flood plain protection .
14 It ' s in the Long Island Sound
15 watershed, the Peconic Estuary . It ' s
16 in a flood zone and a high storm
17 surge risk area . So why this parcel
18 specifically? It ' s adjacent . You
19 can see on the map, all of those
20 colors represent land that is
21 protected in some way . It is --
22 let ' s see , let me make sure that they
23 match . They do . So the sort of
24 Purple Indigo color is county
25 outright-owned parcels . Yellow are
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1 Town and County partnerships . And
2 then that Teal , Tealish-Blue color is
3 town-owned open space . And then the
4 green are farmland development
5 rights . Purple is subdivision open
6 space . So there ' s really a
7 tremendous amount of protected land
8 in this region . There are about 330
9 acres of town and county preserved
10 land adjacent to this parcel , you
11 know, crossing streets and such . And
12 if you add in Moore ' s Woods , which is
13 just to the east, but communicates
14 with this complex of preserved land,
15 you get over 500 acres . There are
16 164 acres in Arshamomaque County .
17 The Arshamomaque County and Town
18 Complex alone . This is an enormous
19 piece of the puzzle that the Town,
20 County, State, Mature Conservancy,
21 and so many other advocates for
22 preservation in town have been
23 putting together for more than two
24 decades . The Town first bought open
25 space in Arshamomaque Preserve with
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1 the County in 2001 , and efforts in
2 this area have been, you know,
3 predate that time even, predate CPF,
4 for the matter . So the existing
5 preservation here demonstrates the
6 Town ' s long-standing interest and
7 effort in protecting a really
8 beautiful , unique, and ecologically
9 important part of the town . Beyond
10 its natural resources , this property
11 is a significant addition to a really
12 large network of free , meaningful
13 public recreation . It ' s adding on --
14 it has a potential to add on to more
15 than six miles of existing trails in
16 the neighborhood . And it ' s
17 springtime . I encourage everyone to
18 go visit it . It ' s a really exciting
19 time to be in and around freshwater
20 wetlands . I am grateful to our
21 partners on this project, the Suffolk
22 County and to the landowner . The
23 County has , and continues to be a
24 really incredible conservation
25 partner in this area in particular,
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1 but in town generally . And the staff
2 was really phenomenal to work with .
3 And I ' m especially grateful to the
4 landowners for their willingness to
5 work with municipal partners . It ' s
6 not always easy, and they ' re making a
7 really long-lasting and important
8 impact on the town . This is our Land
9 Preservation Program . It ' s
10 voluntary, and it doesn ' t work
11 without interested and willing
12 landowners . So I am pleased to
13 present this project today to the
14 Town Board and to the public . And on
15 behalf of the Land Preservation
16 Committee , I request that the Town
17 Board proceed with this acquisition .
18 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
19 Thank you, Lilly .
20 Would anyone like to speak to
21 the public hearing?
22 LOUISE HARRISON : Good evening .
23 I ' m Louise Harrison . I ' m the Long
24 Island Project Director and Senior
25 Science Advisor at Save the Sound .
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1 And I think Ms . McCulloch gave a
2 perfectly wonderful explanation of
3 the value of this property for
4 acquisition . I just wanted to come
5 tonight and let you know that Save
6 the Sound, which of course is a
7 regional organization involved with
8 fighting climate change, saving
9 endangered lands , protecting the
10 sound and its rivers , and restoring
11 ecosystems , wholeheartedly endorses
12 the acquisition of this parcel and
13 creating an even greater complex of
14 open space in the Town of Southold .
15 Of course , it is a secondary growth
16 forest and troubled, and has a couple
17 of small ponds , but more importantly,
18 this protected open space will
19 continue to ensure that the quality
20 of groundwater that flows beneath its
21 surface into Long Island Sound would
22 be unadulterated in the future by
23 septic waste or applications of lawn
24 fertilizers and pesticides from up to
25 24 single family homes that might
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1 otherwise be built there . It
2 contributes groundwater as well to
3 Arshamomaque Pond, which of course
4 flows into the Peconic Estuary . So
5 how lucky are we that there ' s a
6 parcel that actually serves both of
7 the major estuaries here on the east
8 end? So again, Save the Sound fully
9 supports this acquisition of the
10 Southold Ventures parcel . And I want
11 to thank you for the opportunity to
12 speak before you tonight .
13 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
14 Thank you for coming .
15 GREG DOROSKI : It ' s a little
16 weird being on this side . It ' s nice
17 to see you all . I just wanted to
18 speak in support of this acquisition,
19 but wanted to thank Lilly for all of
20 her work on this . This has been a
21 somewhat challenging parcel over the
22 years . To thank the staff in Suffolk
23 County who worked diligently on this .
24 There ' s remapping of wetlands
25 involved here, and deciding exactly
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1 what needed to be done . So this was
2 not an easy acquisition by any means .
3 I ' d like to thank my colleagues on
4 the legislature for agreeing to
5 preserve this . This is a lot of
6 money, but this is a really important
7 parcel . I did want to, I guess ,
8 address some of the folks , someone
9 who actually just reached out to me
10 today, wondering why this wasn ' t
11 targeted for Affordable Housing . I
12 think when we look at the issues that
13 we ' re having at an Affordable Housing
14 development in a very similar project
15 in close proximity to freshwater
16 wetlands , it kind of cautions against
17 that . And when you look at where
18 this is located, I think this is an
19 ideal parcel for preservation . I
20 think as we look at this within the
21 broader discussion that ' s going on
22 with the benefit of CPF Funds in
23 Greenport Village, as much as this is
24 not in Greenport Village , it is in
25 Greenport West . And when we look at
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1 the benefit that will go to the
2 Village in particular, specifically
3 as we look at their Water District
4 and pulling out groundwater from the
5 area, not developing these into
6 single-family homes will directly
7 benefit the Village . And I think
8 that ' s just another reason . You
9 know, I know Councilman Mealy has
10 referred to this as the crown jewel .
11 So I wholeheartedly support this
12 crown jewel . I thank the Town Board
13 for doing this , Lilly, and the staff
14 in the County . So thank you . It ' s
15 nice to see you all . I did show up
16 to Town Hall .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : So
18 just as a bit of an explanation, we
19 are meeting here because we did a
20 water pipe break at Town Hall in the
21 meeting room about three weeks ago,
22 and it ' s currently being restored .
23 And so we were fortunate to have the
24 space to have a public meeting .
25 Is there anyone else that would
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1 like to speak?
2 (No Response . )
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
4 don ' t see anyone else .
5 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : I just
6 want to thank you, Al , for
7 contributing to these efforts .
8 You ' ve been integral to making sure
9 we ' re doing the right thing in the
10 precious environment . You ' ve been
11 integral to provide opportunity . And
12 even when things are setbacks , you
13 didn ' t give up, you persevered . You
14 even talked about Bill Ruland . May
15 he rest in peace . So just
16 generational effort to make sure
17 we ' re doing the right thing, making
18 sure we don ' t screw up opportunities ,
19 just the legacy of Melissa Spiral ,
20 and now it ' s Lilly McCullough . We ' re
21 trying to do the right thing . And
22 it ' s benefiting not just Southold,
23 but as Legislative Doroski said, it ' s
24 benefiting our greater community .
25 It ' s benefiting Greenport Village ,
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1 and we need to acknowledge that . So
2 I just want to thank you for that .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
4 Thank you .
5 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : And if
6 I could, as liaison to Land
7 Preservation, having been through
8 many hours on Tuesday nights talking
9 about many acquisitions , this one
10 definitely pulled the thread from
11 beginning to end the work that we
12 started and others . So I just want
13 to echo the thanks to Lilly and her
14 department , too, and all the work
15 you ' re doing . It ' s a pleasure to
16 work with you .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Is
18 there a motion to close the hearing?
19 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Al , I ' m
20 curious . I didn ' t hear any time --
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Come
22 on up . Just identify yourself .
23 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Sorry .
24 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
25 didn ' t close it yet . You just got in
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1 on time --
2 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Just had time
3 to come and say hello today . Thank
4 you for being here and wanting us to
5 hear about this exciting opportunity
6 to add to the preserved lands in Town
7 of Southold . I don ' t hear as fast as
8 some people talk . I just want to
9 understand, if I can, there was some
10 talk about having public access and
11 recreation on the property --
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
13 BENJA SCHWARTZ : And that was
14 not clear where that access would be
15 from or what types of activities
16 would be allowed, et cetera .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
18 Okay . Thank you . Lilly, I don ' t
19 know if you want to answer that or
20 whether this explanation I ' m going to
21 give is going to be satisfying . If
22 you look at the sort of a patchwork
23 of colors there of different
24 acquisitions over the years , because
25 years ago, somebody came Randy Carson
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1 from the National Conservancy came to
2 the town . And he said, you have to
3 preserve Pipes Cove . And everybody
4 was focused then on Laurel Lake
5 because we want to preserve the area
6 around Laurel Lake and preserve that
7 ecosystem, and that water supply from
8 development, from the impacts of
9 development . And then so everyone --
10 we looked at the map of Pipes Cove,
11 and you can see how it was connected
12 because Greenport Village has Moore ' s
13 Lane, which is a beautiful , a big,
14 beautiful wetland there . It connects
15 the bay to the sound . And Pipes
16 Cove, there ' s quite a few parcels ,
17 and this map doesn ' t quite show all
18 of them . There is a protected lands
19 map on the Town ' s website . If you go
20 on that, you can see, and there ' s all
21 the different colors , because it ' s
22 taken so many years . So there ' s so
23 many different partnerships that have
24 worked on individual parcels , whether
25 it ' s County, Town, or County and
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1 Town, as in this one, in partnership .
2 So to your question about access , in
3 this case , the County has offered,
4 because they ' re adjacent to that Blue
5 parcel in the middle, they own that,
6 so they ' ve offered to do the
7 stewardship on this parcel as well .
8 On many of the parcels , of the Yellow
9 one to the east, we ' re, as a town,
10 are responsible for the trail
11 maintenance and the trail
12 development . So there ' s a lot of
13 coordination and cooperation when it
14 comes to the County and Town, both in
15 acquisition and also a stewardship
16 and maintenance . So they will be
17 responsible for developing the trail
18 system there . They will be part of
19 that . I mean, they will be
20 developing the trail system . So
21 that ' s what we ' re going to do . If
22 there is no other comment, then can I
23 have a motion to close the hearing?
24 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Motion
25 to close the hearing .
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1 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH :
2 Second .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
4 in favor to close?
5 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye .
6 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Aye .
7 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : Aye .
8 JUSTICE KATE STEVENS : Aye .
9 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Aye .
10 I would just like to say that I
11 just want to thank Suffolk County .
12 They ' ve been a great partner in
13 preservation . And without them, it
14 would have been a much difficult task
15 to come up with that whole 500 acre
16 parcel of preserved land . That
17 protects Greenport Village, as
18 Legislator Doroski said . It protects
19 their water supply . Certainly
20 mitigates noise pollution, light
21 pollution, and certainly air
22 pollution . So it has all those
23 benefits directly to the Village .
24 It ' s a wonderful acquisition . I want
25 to thank the family involved for
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1 being a willing partner .
3 PUBLIC COMMENTS
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
5 right . Now, we are into the public
6 portion . Would anyone like to
7 address the Board on any matter?
8 JOHN REICHERT : Well , good
9 evening once again . My name is John
10 Reichert . It ' s a pleasure to be here
11 to see everybody . This is a letter I
12 was sending to the newspaper . Over
13 30 years ago , Southold Town offered
14 to its citizens who met a certain
15 financial criteria, the opportunity
16 to buy into the American dream . They
17 laid out a parcel of land for
18 Affordable Housing . Those who
19 partook of this offer were young
20 families who were overjoyed at the
21 prospect of owning their own homes .
22 This was a dream come true .
23 Unfortunately, this dream will turn
24 into a nightmare . The Planning Board
25 allows the land north of the
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1 development to be used for a 6 , 000
2 hen egg producing enterprise . Those
3 who bought into this dream are now
4 about to be betrayed by the powers
5 that be in Southold Town government .
6 Once given a promise of owning a home
7 in a healthful environment, the same
8 environment is going to be turned
9 into a toxic disease producing
10 chicken egg farm . It will not only
11 produce eggs , but also a plume of
12 wind borne disease causing manure
13 dust . Along with the dust will be an
14 obnoxious odor of this manure , which
15 will be carried by the wind all the
16 way down to Route 25 . This is a
17 promise spoken by the Southold Town
18 political establishment . When I
19 complain to the Town Board, Town
20 Planning Board, and Supervisor
21 Krupski , the same refrain was uttered
22 by those in power . The land is zoned
23 for agriculture , and Southold is a
24 protected agriculture town . I was
25 also told by Supervisor Krupski that
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1 this is America, and you can ' t tell a
2 landowner what he can do with his
3 land . Well , the Town of Agriculture
4 Law bans ducks in Southold . But
5 evidently, the Town is telling people
6 what they can do with their land .
7 And you certainly can ' t turn your
8 land into a garbage dump . There are
9 restrictions . One very important
10 part of the law has to do with the
11 farm being a hazard to the health of
12 the residents . This is being totally
13 ignored . I was told if you stop this
14 farm, then that puts in jeopardy
15 existing farms . Banning ducks had no
16 adverse effects on those farms . The
17 farm lobby is very powerful in
18 Southold and very uncaring concerning
19 the citizens of Southold . The land
20 zoned of Jasmine Lane was originally
21 zoned for Residential Use, but the
22 Town changed that zoning . If you
23 want to destroy a neighborhood, put
24 people ' s health at risk, you just
25 follow the leaders of Southold Town .
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1 This is a betrayal of the public
2 trust . This is the most callous and
3 uncaring act that could ever be
4 perpetrated on our fellow citizens ,
5 your neighbors . Those who were
6 promised a dream and now on the verge
7 of having that dream destroyed . To
8 reject this egg producing enterprise ,
9 the right to operate that land is the
10 right thing to do if you care at all
11 about your fellow citizens . They
12 stand to lose everything . Their
13 health, their investment, their
14 quality of life . Not one of those
15 people who are opposing our fight to
16 prevent this enterprise being located
17 adjacent to our land would swiftly
18 find a way to prevent it from
19 happening . 30 years ago, the Town
20 made a promise to future homeowners
21 that they would have a safe and
22 healthy place to live and raise their
23 families . Now the Town is breaking
24 that promise in the most despicable
25 betrayal of its citizens , those whom
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1 they were elected to protect . Every
2 politician who is doing nothing to
3 prevent this travesty will be
4 remembered by those who destroy not
5 only your dream, but the lives of the
6 people of Jasmine Land . Betrayal ,
7 broken promises , uncaring, and
8 heartless . This is your legacy . You
9 own this destructive path of
10 travesty . This is part of the
11 Agricultural Law we go by in the Town
12 of Southold . The town laws Rules and
13 Regulations are presumed to be good
14 agricultural practices and presume
15 not to adversely affect the public
16 health, safety, and welfare . 6 , 000
17 chicken farm -- egg farm, will
18 certainly affect the public health,
19 safety, and welfare . Now, if you
20 were to go on AI and ask where is
21 there in America a 6 , 000 egg
22 producing farm, they would tell you
23 nowhere . Next to a residential area,
24 nowhere . You know where they ' d tell
25 you to find it? In a third world
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1 country . You are putting 6 , 000
2 chickens , possibly 12 , 000 , in a
3 residential area . That is only done
4 in a third world country . That to me
5 is a disgrace . Thank you .
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
7 Thank you for coming . Just to be
8 clear, the Board isn ' t taking any
9 action on this . This is subject to a
10 site plan review by the Town ' s
11 Planning Board .
12 JOHN REICHERT : And they ' re
13 doing nothing from us .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 They ' re reviewing the --
16 JOHN REICHERT : It ' s a done
17 deal .
18 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
19 don ' t know that , and they ' re
20 reviewing it , and they ' re doing it in
21 due diligence .
22 JOHN REICHERT : My last problem
23 is a done deal .
24 SANDRA KOLLEN : Hello , my name
25 is Sandy Kollen, and I am right next
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1 door to this chicken project , and I ' d
2 just like to speak about it again .
3 I ' ve had meetings with Supervisor
4 Krupski . I ' ve gone to every single
5 meeting . I ' ve done oodles of
6 research . And these are facts .
7 These are not something that I just
8 made up . I did my research, and I ' m
9 questioning whether the Planning
10 Board has done their research, or the
11 Town Board or whoever ' s involved in
12 this project . This is a letter from
13 one of my neighbors . She lives
14 directly across the street from the
15 parcel , and her living room window
16 looks directly out on which -- that
17 she ' s been there for 35 years has
18 been woods . When development rights
19 were sold, I appeared at the Town
20 Hall and expressed delight on my
21 behalf and my neighbors . We all
22 noticed the "For Sale" sign this
23 Summer and assumed a local farmer
24 would be farming . As we all know
25 now, the owner is a full-time college
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1 student . He told me he owns it with
2 his father, who has remained entirely
3 out of sight until now . This is an
4 owner/investor with a startup
5 business , not a local farmer . He
6 plans to house 6 , 000 chickens , and we
7 believe more , because he said it at
8 the hearing, in six movable houses .
9 That ' s 1 , 000 chickens per house . If
10 anybody has done their research, and
11 I know it ' s like the back of my hand
12 now, it ' s 50 to 250 chickens per acre
13 for pasture raised . If you want to
14 be industrial and you want to give
15 harm to the chickens and the
16 neighbors and everybody else around
17 you, then go ahead and have a
18 thousand . But it ' s not humane . It ' s
19 not humane for us . It ' s not humane
20 for the chickens . That ' s not pasture
21 raise . That ' s not what Southold is
22 all about . If you want to do
23 industrial , then you need to go
24 someplace else . This is an
25 owner/investor -- I ' m sorry . His
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1 plan is to house the 6 , 000 chickens
2 in movable houses , 1 , 000 chickens per
3 coop house . That alone should tell
4 you that there ' s something wrong with
5 that picture . And the pictures that
6 he just sent in, trying to plead his
7 case, are not going to house 1 , 000
8 chickens . And 1 , 000 baby chicks are
9 going to be in harm ' s way . The
10 predators are going to get them
11 because there ' s no houses for them .
12 It ' s just an A-frame is what it looks
13 like . And will not feed them
14 anything with additives , thereby
15 allowing for organic laboring --
16 labeling . The chickens will not feed
17 birds in pastured sunlight, but will
18 live in enclosures . Hired workers
19 will feed, water, collect eggs , wash
20 eggs , refrigerate eggs , if washed,
21 package eggs , and load onto trucks to
22 be carried to market . As someone who
23 spent their childhood on a farm and
24 as someone who has backyard chickens
25 and ducks , I have questions about the
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1 enormous egg operation outside my
2 living room windows . I feel so sorry
3 for this woman . And I feel sorry for
4 us too . We ' re all going to reap the
5 bad benefits . Laying hens produce
6 most eggs between 20 and 70 weeks of
7 age . Will he bring in already laying
8 hens ? Then I read his letter, and
9 no, he will not . It ' s all baby
10 chicks . So what is his plan until
11 they get of egg-laying age, I guess ?
12 And what is his plan for the natural
13 death of 10% of his 6 , 000 birds ?
14 This is not 6 , 000 birds . We already
15 know it ' s going to be more .
16 Statistically, that will happen . Not
17 diseased or sick . Birds simply die
18 at about a 10% rate . What is his
19 plan once his 6 , 000 chickens , all the
20 same age , birds , age-out of prime
21 production, 70 weeks ? Will he kill
22 them on site , bury them in a hole , or
23 haul them to the dump? Maybe an
24 arrangement with the meat processing
25 plant . 6 , 000 hens will lay an egg at
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1 least five days of the week . I did
2 my research, and it ' s between one and
3 three to four eggs per bird, per day .
4 If the Rhode Island Reds , or another
5 big producer, six out of seven . He
6 will every day have roughly 5 , 400
7 eggs . Every week maybe 37 , 000 eggs .
8 Ackerly Pond will certainly
9 experience unprecedented daily truck
10 traffic, and smell and manure and
11 everything else . I ' m sure you have
12 done your research, and that ' s
13 your -- into the terrible problem of
14 manure . One coop house with 1 , 000
15 birds will create roughly 260 pounds
16 of manure per day . That is 47 tons
17 each year for just one of the six
18 houses . It takes four to six months
19 for this wet manure to break down
20 enough to be usable in a garden . Wet
21 manure burns plants and is totally
22 useless . What is the plan to deal
23 with this enormous amount of manure
24 produced every day? Trucking away?
25 Piling in heaps to age? The ammonia
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1 created by manure is a threat to air
2 quality, and manure is a major
3 pollutant to both surface and
4 groundwater . I am very worried about
5 our groundwater with this amount of
6 chicken and poop every single day .
7 And yes , the New York State
8 Right-to-Farm Law states farmers
9 shall have the right-to-farm in
10 Southold without undue interference
11 from adjacent landowners or users .
12 Indeed, but I think we can make an
13 argument , even given the huge
14 umbrella of farmer, that this is not
15 a farm despite the agricultural
16 nature of the business . Simply
17 installing a huge number of chickens
18 on a piece of land does not make that
19 land a farm . This is not some young
20 person trying to invest in his
21 community, and live his dream of
22 farming . There are absentee owners .
23 This is strictly a business
24 investment . This is far more factory
25 than farm . Let us not be naive .
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1 These hens may not be living in tiny
2 cages , dropping eggs down a tube, but
3 this is a factory farm . This is an
4 industrial farm . This will be the
5 very first industrial farm in
6 Southold Town . This is a proposed
7 egg production plant that threatens
8 neighbors with the very undue
9 interference , which the Right-to-Farm
10 Act protects the farmer . Here we
11 have no real farmer, but we do have
12 real neighbors who will certainly
13 feel burdened . That ' s just from our
14 neighbor . She wrote a really nice
15 letter . And you mentioned something
16 about the site plan . And I ' ve
17 already shown you the site plan .
18 This is the site plan that they
19 submitted . It has one little tiny
20 building right here . Nothing else .
21 But yet, Southold Town Planning Board
22 Architectural Review Committee Site
23 Plan Application Supplement, this is
24 for -- it seems like it ' s for a
25 subdivision . And this is not a
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1 subdivision, but we ' re asking for all
2 of these things , and none of these
3 things have been done . Site plans
4 specifying grading, draining,
5 landscaping, parking, loading areas ,
6 signage, mechanical equipment , trash
7 containers , retaining walls and
8 fences . Elevations drawn at a
9 minimum quarter-inch scale,
10 specifying siding, windows , doors ,
11 roofing, roof-mounted mechanical
12 equipment, plumbing . I mean, he ' s
13 got all these other things . Where is
14 that? Where is the site plan that
15 has all of these things on there?
16 You know nothing . You know nothing
17 from this little box that ' s on this
18 15 . 9 acres , which is not 15 . 9 acres ,
19 which I pointed out before, because
20 you have to allow for the driveway .
21 Because apparently he doesn ' t want to
22 access from us , which I don ' t believe
23 him, because he can, and he will .
24 This is Ackerly Pond . So you need a
25 driveway all the way over here . Then
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1 he ' s got the building 2 , 100 square
2 foot . There ' s hardly any houses in
3 my development that ' s 2 , 100 square
4 feet . And what about the water pump
5 that I see on farms ? They ' re
6 literally generators , which make a
7 ton of noise . And his operation, he
8 already said it, 6 : 00 a . m . to 6 : 00
9 p . m . , seven days a week, regardless
10 of holidays . I see nothing on this
11 site plan . The site plan shows
12 nothing, but yet it was approved to
13 knock down trees . But keep in mind,
14 this is not approved yet . It makes
15 no sense . And yesterday, I was
16 listening to chainsaws yet again, and
17 he ' s cutting down more trees . So I
18 called the Planning Board, I called
19 the police . Brian Cummings was nice
20 enough to get the Code Inspector over
21 there right away, and I appreciate
22 that . But his excuse was , not the
23 Code Inspector, but whoever was doing
24 the work over there, was that they
25 were already cutting trees that were
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1 down and putting them in the chipper .
2 You better not believe that because I
3 don ' t believe it . Come on . That ' s
4 not true . He was cutting down trees
5 and if he was just doing that ,
6 cutting the trees that were already
7 down and putting them in the chipper,
8 he would have continued . But as soon
9 as the cops came and as soon as the
10 code enforcer came , he stopped, which
11 I appreciate , but that was a lie . He
12 was not doing that . This guy is a
13 liar . 50 hens times 15 . 9 acres is
14 795 hens . That ' s just an incredible
15 amount of chickens for this one
16 little area . And it is a little
17 area . It ' s not that big . 15 . 9 acres
18 is not that big . I ' ll find my
19 paperwork . But I also researched the
20 water . I ' m concerned about the
21 water . We spoke about that at our
22 meeting . But he said 1 , 000 gallons
23 per day . That ' s just for the
24 chicken . If anybody did their
25 research and cares about wildlife and
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1 animals and farming, that ' s just the
2 chickens . And that ' s only in the
3 Winter . In the Summer, they require
4 1 , 500 gallons a day, and that ' s 6 , 000
5 chickens . We all know that he ' s
6 going to have more , so that ' s going
7 to be more water . And that ' s not
8 including the egg washers that are --
9 I just read, 75 gallons a day . This
10 is an enormous amount of eggs that
11 are going to be produced every single
12 day . This operation is not going to
13 stop . That means the lights are
14 going to go on at 5 : 00 a . m . The
15 lights are going to go off at 7 : 00 ,
16 8 : 00 o ' clock . The noise is never
17 going to stop because the chickens
18 are very noisy . 6 , 000 chickens is
19 equivalent to 6 , 000 people having a
20 very loud conversation . Non-stop .
21 Like, you can ' t tell them to shut up .
22 The odor, I can ' t even imagine what
23 the odor is going to be like for us .
24 And lastly, my property value ,
25 everybody ' s property value . You ' re
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1 not going to get the revenue because
2 we ' re going to be reassessed . And
3 I ' m going to be left with no
4 retirement . This house is all I
5 have . I work seven days a week, four
6 jobs , 11-hour days , and that is no
7 joke . I ' m not making that up . This
8 is all we have . I ' m really shocked
9 that this has even gone this far . I
10 know that you said that you don ' t
11 have the power, but I ' ve read many,
12 many things , and you do have the
13 power to override the Planning
14 Department . I don ' t know what the
15 Planning Department ' s going to say .
16 Nobody knows . They know, but we
17 don ' t know . This is also a criminal
18 that ' s -- now it ' s out in the open .
19 It ' s a criminal person that has
20 ruined lives on the South Fork, and
21 now he ' s on the North Fork . And
22 maybe we have a lot of these kind of
23 guys . I don ' t know . But I know that
24 I don ' t want him next to me . And the
25 fact that he moved next to me , bought
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1 a piece of property, and has this
2 cockamamie idea of putting 10 , 000
3 chickens next to me, he ' s already not
4 a nice guy . Because nobody would do
5 that that ' s a nice guy . So please,
6 if you have any power, which I know
7 you do, talk to the Planning Board .
8 Commit with them . Talk about it
9 together . You do have the power .
10 You do have the -- I ' m sure that you
11 guys talk to each other about other
12 projects . You have to address this .
13 This cannot happen in our
14 neighborhood . The buffers , I ' m
15 worried about the buffers . You say
16 100 feet . I ' m looking at pink tape
17 right now from my daughter ' s second
18 story window . And that ' s where the
19 guys were cutting down the trees . So
20 he already thinks that this is okay .
21 Is somebody telling him that , go
22 ahead, just keep going . You ' ll be
23 fine . Just keep going . Because
24 we ' re not going to be fine . None of
25 this is fine with us . And anything
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1 that goes over there other than
2 livestock would be fine with me . I
3 commend the farming industry . I love
4 the farming industry . I told you
5 last time , there ' s so many wonderful
6 ideas that people have . This is not
7 one of them .
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
9 right . Thank you . Thank you for
10 coming in . You know, you and I , you
11 came into the office . We discussed
12 this at length . You asked about
13 retail and processing because the
14 Town ' s easement , retail or processing
15 --
16 SANDRA KOLLEN : I was waiting
17 for you to get back to me, but I
18 found the answer .
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : -- on
20 the whole property . But farming
21 should be a business . You have to
22 make money farming . And I don ' t know
23 what his business model is . I don ' t
24 know what other farms ' business model
25 is . They have their own, it ' s their
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1 business . And I can ' t say how many
2 chickens he could have there .
3 SANDRA KOLLEN : You can . You
4 absolutely can . This is ridiculous
5 that you keep saying that . You mean
6 to tell me that if you live next door
7 to him, you would say, "oh, I can ' t
8 say anything . He ' s got 10 , 000
9 chickens . I ' m just going to have to
10 put up with it . " That ' s not
11 acceptable .
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : It ' s
13 a matter of property rights , and it
14 is a matter of right-to-farm .
15 SANDRA KOLLEN : I have property
16 rights . I have my own property
17 rights . We all do . We live in an
18 affordable community that you gave to
19 us . You gifted us this gift of a
20 home . And now you ' re taking it away
21 because why? Because we ' re
22 Affordable Housing? Are we equal to
23 third world countries ?
24 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : And
25 I don ' t want to presume to know what
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1 the Planning Board ' s deliberating
2 about .
3 SANDRA KOLLEN : I understand .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
5 know that you ' ve spoken before .
6 SANDRA KOLLEN : I ' m praying .
7 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
8 know that you ' ve spoken before the
9 Planning Board . I have not spoken to
10 any Planning Board members about
11 this .
12 SANDRA KOLLEN : Why?
13 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
14 Because they ' re deliberating in their
15 process .
16 SANDRA KOLLEN : But you are our
17 leader and you have authority .
18 You ' re a farmer yourself .
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes
20 --
21 SANDRA KOLLEN : You should be
22 able to have a conversation with them
23 and you should have already done
24 that .
25 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
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1 have faith in them to deliberate and
2 take all the facts --
3 SANDRA KOLLEN : Have you seen
4 the mansions around here? You have
5 faith in them? Come on .
6 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
7 don ' t know --
8 SANDRA KOLLEN : This is 10 , 000
9 chickens . You cannot have faith in
10 that .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
12 don ' t think it ' s fair to talk about
13 the size of houses with a Planning
14 Board because they don ' t size --
15 SANDRA KOLLEN : And I shouldn ' t
16 have said that . You ' re right . I
17 shouldn ' t have said that . But our
18 growth here is out of control .
19 Completely out of control . And it ' s
20 not growth for the normal people .
21 It ' s growth for people coming out
22 here and doing what they want to do .
23 And I do believe that it ' s because
24 they have money . And this guy has
25 money . And are you afraid that he ' s
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1 going to sue you? He ' s going to sue
2 the town because he has the money to
3 do it . You know damn well we don ' t .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No ,
5 I ' m not dismissing any of your
6 concerns , but I think it ' s the Town
7 Board ' s responsibility to allow the
8 Planning Board to go through their
9 process and act --
10 SANDRA KOLLEN : But I think that
11 you should have , like , together, Town
12 Board, Planning Board, talk about it
13 together . Maybe you know things that
14 they don ' t know . Maybe they know
15 things that you don ' t know . That ' s
16 only fair . I thought that you would
17 have had a conversation with them
18 already about this .
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
20 have not .
21 SANDRA KOLLEN : I urge you to
22 have a conversation together, to
23 figure this out together . I mean, I
24 think that that ' s only fair to us ,
25 that the more people that lead our
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1 town have a conversation together
2 about such a controversial project .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : And
4 I don ' t believe it ' s in the Town ' s
5 right or best interest to say,
6 because we didn ' t say he can have
7 6 , 000 chickens , right? The Town
8 Board . And I don ' t believe the
9 Planning Board can dictate how many
10 chickens he can or can ' t have there .
11 SANDRA KOLLEN : Even though it ' s
12 surrounded by residential homes ?
13 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
14 don ' t believe they have the authority
15 to say that . And if every community
16 said, " I don ' t like chickens , " and
17 the next community says , " I don ' t
18 like greenhouses next to me , " and the
19 next community says , " I don ' t want
20 vegetables growing next to me . " And
21 the next community says , " I don ' t
22 want livestock . " Pretty soon we
23 wouldn ' t have any agricultural
24 production . And that ' s our basis for
25 national security -- No, please ,
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1 don ' t . No , no, please . I ' ll let you
2 speak, sir . Please .
3 That ' s our basis for national
4 security is our food production . And
5 if we ' re going to rely on a foreign
6 country to produce our food, we ' re in
7 trouble as a country .
8 SANDRA KOLLEN : You know that
9 that ' s not going to happen .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No ,
11 but that ' s how it starts . You need
12 to allow people in this country to
13 move --
14 SANDRA KOLLEN : Supervisor
15 Krupski , please . This is a small
16 town . It ' s surrounded by homes .
17 This does not belong next to us . It
18 belongs someplace, but not surrounded
19 by homes . It ' s not one or two homes .
20 It ' s every single property surrounds
21 his property . That ' s what I asked,
22 has anybody seen this ? Have you
23 taken a drone and seen what ' s really
24 going on? It ' s surrounded by homes .
25 It ' s not surrounded by farms . It ' s
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1 surrounded by homes that are occupied
2 by your EMT ' s , nurses . I work for
3 the school , the Legion, the Ink Spot .
4 Like all of your service people live
5 around this piece of property . There
6 is absolutely something that you can
7 do . We ' re not asking you -- I mean,
8 it would be nice to make it go away,
9 but I know that that ' s not going to
10 happen . But the restrictions can be
11 severe . They really can, so that we
12 can all live in harmony . I ' ve used
13 that word over and over again . I
14 don ' t expect it to go away . I wish
15 it could, but it ' s not going to . He
16 is now my neighbor, regardless of
17 anything . And he is going to do some
18 sort of business . I hope to God it
19 would be crops , that would be nice .
20 Winery, that would be nice . But
21 10 , 000 -- 6 , 000 to 10 , 000 chickens ,
22 not nice . Not nice at all .
23 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : But
24 if he did another form of
25 agriculture, don ' t forget he would
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1 have to take every tree out .
2 SANDRA KOLLEN : He ' s doing that
3 anyway .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : If
5 he did row cropping or greenhouses or
6 horticulture --
7 SANDRA KOLLEN : Well , I don ' t
8 think that that would disrupt the
9 quality of our lives . Do you?
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
11 don ' t know .
12 SANDRA KOLLEN : You do know .
13 That ' s common sense . That would not
14 disrupt the quality of our life . If
15 everybody has us in mind, move the
16 building to the middle of the
17 property . Move the water pump to the
18 middle of the property . I don ' t care
19 about his finances . He has the
20 money . We already see that . And
21 that ' s not even the issue . The issue
22 is be a good neighbor . Put it to the
23 middle of the property . 300 feet of
24 buffers all the way around the
25 property . And I ' m not making that
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1 number up . I researched, even
2 overseas says 100 meters . That ' s 340
3 feet . United States says 300 feet .
4 Make it 300 feet . Do something
5 besides 100 feet, which is zero,
6 nothing . I don ' t want to see this
7 building . I don ' t want to hear the
8 building . And I ' m not being rude .
9 It ' s going to affect our quality of
10 life . The smell , the noise , I mean
11 between the chickens , the building,
12 everything that ' s going in the
13 building, the water . He ' s lying on
14 his applications . That ' s the other
15 thing that bothers me . Nobody ' s
16 scrutinizing these applications .
17 He ' s lying . I have tick marks on
18 almost every single page . The guy
19 just -- yeah, he is 22-years-old
20 filling out this kind of paperwork .
21 He ' s never done it in his life . But
22 he ' s answering wrong answers . It ' s
23 not accurate what he ' s saying in
24 those papers . You even read
25 something about the water . The water
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1 is not accurate . This man is going
2 to exceed 2 , 000 gallons of water per
3 day, if not more . And that ' s only
4 6 , 000 chickens . We know he ' s going
5 to have more . So it ' s going to be
6 more than 2 , 000 gallons of water per
7 day . Where ' s the Health Department
8 and the Suffolk County Water
9 Authority? Because he ' s lying on the
10 applications , they ' re saying, oh,
11 it ' s only going to be this , or, oh,
12 it ' s only going to be that . Do your
13 research . This is not happening the
14 way it ' s supposed to be happening . I
15 don ' t believe anything that ' s in
16 those applications because I did my
17 research . I ' m not making any of it
18 up . Please do your best . Please
19 have a conversation with the Planning
20 Board . Work on this together .
21 Together, we can live in harmony . If
22 you reduce the amount of chickens ,
23 the buffer, the water pump, the
24 building, there ' s a lot of things
25 that can be done . Thank you for
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1 listening .
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
3 Thank you .
4 LESLIE HERRLIN : I ' m Leslie
5 Herrlin, and I ' m a property owner on
6 Jasmine Lane . And there ' s a lot
7 going on with this proposal . I ' ll
8 read a little statement that I have
9 here . So the community of Jasmine
10 Lane was established as an Affordable
11 Housing development . Since New York
12 State grants and HUD initiatives were
13 used, the project -- the Town of
14 Southold, has an obligation to
15 protect this community from intense
16 and incompatible uses . And that ' s
17 what we ' re talking about here . We ' re
18 talking about incompatible uses . In
19 planning terms , basic planning
20 principles . Okay? Intensity, use,
21 and impacts . And this does not
22 belong next to a residential housing
23 community . A densely populated
24 residential housing . So this was
25 doomed at inception, at the site
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1 selection stage . It never should
2 have happened . The Town sold the
3 development rights because no one
4 would ever imagine an operation of
5 this scale and magnitude would want
6 to set up shop right in the heart of
7 Southold, right at the gateway of the
8 town, so that when you come into Town
9 of Southold, you ' re going to have the
10 crescent duck farm smell . Just like
11 Aquebogue . And certainly not at the
12 doorsteps of our densely populated
13 housing development of Jasmine Lane .
14 Under New York State Planning Laws ,
15 Planning Boards must protect
16 neighboring properties . The land has
17 to be used without danger to health
18 or menace to the neighboring
19 properties or the public health and
20 safety and welfare . These uses are
21 incompatible . The intensity of one
22 bears down on the other, and there is
23 no form -- no form of mitigation when
24 placed side by side . You can move
25 the building, but you cannot change
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1 the direction of the wind . Sound
2 planning in New York is based on the
3 three principles I mentioned . First ,
4 the protection of public health,
5 safety, and welfare . Second, the
6 protection of neighboring properties .
7 Third, environmental review under
8 SEQRA . So I ask the Board, the
9 Planning Board, Ag Advisor, whoever
10 in the town is involved in this
11 project, let ' s say consultants ,
12 contractors , in-house consultants ,
13 out-of-house consultants , everyone .
14 Why hasn ' t this been reviewed? Why
15 has this project, given the
16 magnitude -- the scale and magnitude
17 of it, why hasn ' t it been given a
18 proper review? For 6 , 000 to upwards
19 of 12 , 000 chickens , an operation next
20 to our community . It ' s insane . It ' s
21 ridiculous . We have aquifer
22 concerns . There are traffic
23 concerns , pest control concerns .
24 There are odor and air quality
25 concerns , public health and safety
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1 concerns . These are exactly the
2 types of impacts SEQRA was created to
3 evaluate . Yet this project has moved
4 forward without that level of review .
5 We also have been waiting for a
6 statement from a Town official .
7 Nobody has spoken in support of our
8 community . No one has said a word in
9 support . Not even Jade, you know?
10 Yeah, that might be a little too
11 close . There might be too many . Not
12 one . Not one . And why is that? I ' d
13 like to know . Because from the
14 perspective of the residents , it
15 appears the Town is willing to stand
16 with the owners of this project, of
17 whom one is a convicted felon, while
18 remaining silent about the concerns
19 of the people who actually live
20 there . Haven ' t heard anything from
21 the Planning Board . Not one thing .
22 They haven ' t told us that they are
23 going to have another hearing . We
24 have no idea what ' s going on . So is
25 it just going to be popped on us
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1 again, like it was January 2nd when
2 we got notices to show up at a
3 hearing? So I have to say, who ' s
4 taking the lead on this project?
5 Where is the task force that we have
6 so many of in Southold? Where is the
7 task force evaluating these impacts
8 here? Who at the Town level is
9 qualified as a public health official
10 to evaluate these? Because if no one
11 is , then it needs to go to the
12 County . It needs to go to SEQRA .
13 Who at the Town level is qualified to
14 make these decisions for us , for our
15 counties ? We live there . And there
16 is a timeline of events that shows a
17 pattern that looks like there has
18 been a bias against us . We get this
19 notice that we have 10 days to show
20 up to . I show up at a hearing . I
21 show up at a hearing . I ' ve never
22 been to a hearing before . I have a
23 lot of respect for the Town of
24 Southold officials . I work for the
25 town . I came to a meeting -- a
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1 hearing, first time I ' ve ever been to
2 one . Never sat in on one . I
3 expected professional behavior . I
4 expected to be treated with dignity
5 and respect . When I was at the
6 hearing, I walked out of a work
7 session that was going on before the
8 hearing, and I sat and talked with a
9 friend who has a farm . And as the
10 Director of Planning passed by me ,
11 she said, "what do you hear to
12 protest chickens ? " That ' s
13 unacceptable . What ' s the defense
14 about? So there ' s a bias right
15 there . You know, I didn ' t put it in
16 writing, but it ' s been a while , and
17 I ' ve been dealing with this for a
18 long time . If you want it in
19 writing, I ' ll make a statement . But
20 at first , I was shocked, and I really
21 didn ' t know how to handle it . But
22 it ' s really -- it ' s really not nice
23 what happened . I came here thinking
24 that it would all just be a formality
25 about, you know, see people , yet we
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1 don ' t agree, but I would be treated
2 with respect . That was
3 disrespectful , and it was a form of
4 intimidation before a public hearing .
5 So tonight I ' m here to ask the Town
6 Board, the Planning Board, the
7 public, watching people out there ,
8 watching this all the time . Who
9 should you trust? Who are you to
10 trust? Who are you standing with?
11 Who are you protecting? Who are the
12 officials in this Town protecting?
13 And who exactly are you representing?
14 Because with this project, it doesn ' t
15 feel like we ' re being represented .
16 So yeah, I have a real problem with
17 this whole process , how this is going
18 to be presented to the community .
19 Like I said, there ' s a lot of events .
20 There ' s a timeline in this process .
21 And it ' s biased . It really is . We
22 are treated -- we show up at the
23 public hearing, we all go there in
24 good faith, and before anybody utters
25 a word, we ' re told right off the bat
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1 the Right-to-Farm Law . Right-to-Farm
2 Law . So basically saying, don ' t
3 bother . What you have to say here
4 doesn ' t matter because, it ' s all
5 Right-to-Farm Law . We ' re in a
6 farming community . We all live here .
7 We love farms . Some of us have grown
8 up on farms , worked on farms , owned
9 farms . We ' re not against farming .
10 We ' re against the use , the impacts ,
11 and the intensity of it . And we ' re
12 taking the burden . I ' d like to know,
13 how is this proposal -- how is this
14 farm -- how is it good for the
15 residents of Southold? What are we
16 going to get from this ? What are we
17 gaining from this agricultural
18 project? Just another project that
19 we can say, well , we can ' t do
20 anything . Right-to-Farm Law . I
21 think that ' s a copout . I understand
22 the whole right to farming . I
23 understand it . It could be a domino
24 effect . But with that, with that
25 such leeway, there comes great
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1 responsibility . It ' s called
2 stewardship, which I mentioned last
3 time we were here . When you have
4 such a priceless gift before you, you
5 don ' t take it for granted . You watch
6 over it very carefully . And when it
7 is dirt, you pull out the weeds . And
8 this is a weed, and we don ' t want it
9 to start here in fester . Thank you .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
11 Thank you . And again, the Planning
12 Board is reviewing this . They did
13 provide legal public notice as far as
14 I ' m aware . And they are conducting a
15 review like they do on many other
16 projects . Whether it ' s an
17 agricultural building or a barn or
18 any other subdivision, they ' re
19 equipped to do this . They have a
20 Planning Board and a Planning staff
21 and they review a lot of different
22 proposals . They are equipped .
23 LESLIE HERRLIN : Okay . So they
24 are equipped, so why aren ' t they
25 taking this to the next level ? And
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1 if they are right now and we don ' t
2 know about it, why haven ' t we been
3 notified? Why hasn ' t there been a
4 letter sent to all -- at least the
5 adjacent property owners ? This is
6 what the current status of the
7 proposal is .
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
9 don ' t know where they are at the
10 present --
11 LESLIE HERRLIN : Where ' s the
12 communication?
13 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
14 don ' t know .
15 LESLIE HERRLIN : Where is the
16 communication? Where is the
17 transparency? Why is there this
18 wall ?
19 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : You
20 need to communicate that to the
21 Planning Board .
22 LESLIE HERRLIN : I ' ve sent FOIL
23 requests . One got answered . And I
24 don ' t know if I ' m going to get that
25 information back in time for the next
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1 Planning work session and meeting .
2 So I have unanswered questions .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
4 Would anyone else like to address the
5 Board?
6 EFFIE GALANIS : Good evening,
7 Board . And good evening, everyone .
8 My name is Effie Galanis , and I am
9 the President of the North Fork Beach
10 Condominium . I ' m going to shift the
11 focus away from that project and
12 towards erosion, which is another
13 issue that I ' m sure we ' re all dealing
14 with, we ' re all aware of . I mean, as
15 recently as last week, we saw on the
16 news , two articles written about the
17 erosion of Town Beach, which is
18 incredibly devastating for all of us ,
19 but particularly for us because our
20 community is located right next to
21 Town Beach . And I guess I ' d like to
22 start by asking first how the Town
23 seeks to address that and whether
24 there ' s going to be any effect on the
25 plans that were originally thought
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1 for our property as well? So I ' ll
2 just kind of let you speak and then
3 I ' ll have some follow-up questions ,
4 if that ' s okay?
5 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
6 Yeah, thank you . We ' re actually
7 meeting tomorrow with the Town
8 officials at Town Beach to decide how
9 we ' re going to address the current
10 swim season that ' s coming up this
11 season because we want to make
12 sure -- and I don ' t know if you know
13 this , today, but so that locks and
14 robots to make sure nobody could
15 actually drive over the edge and
16 we ' re directing the beach traffic
17 while across the side to the east, so
18 they can still walk down to the beach
19 on the east side . Once we have a
20 meeting -- and we did look at our
21 seawall there, let ' s say a month and
22 a half ago , before this last big
23 storm . So we looked at the seawall
24 right by your property there . And it
25 had -- there was some change, we
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1 thought, to the bank . I know we have
2 drone footage before and after the
3 storms now, so we can get a better
4 visual of what that looks like . So I
5 asked the Town Engineer, you know,
6 what happened? What are the plans ?
7 Because we have a big meeting with
8 the property owners .
9 EFFIE GALANIS : Yep .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
11 We ' re still waiting for some property
12 owners to sign off for access , so we
13 can make that plan to make that
14 repair .
15 EFFIE GALANIS : Yeah, and about
16 that . We have taken it into our, you
17 know, into our own hands to try and
18 reach out to the two remaining -- I
19 believe it ' s two remaining property
20 owners to no avail . We ' ve even
21 offered kind of to try and go in
22 person or to even give you phone
23 numbers to try and call . At some
24 point, the communication kind of
25 stopped between us and the Board .
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1 I ' m not really sure what happened
2 there, but we ' ve tried to follow-up
3 and we haven ' t really gotten a
4 response , so we were a little
5 concerned, which is why we ' re here
6 today . We have members on Zoom as
7 well , just to show you that we ' re
8 still here and we ' re still here to
9 work with you .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
11 Thank you .
12 EFFIE GALANIS : We ' ve always
13 said this is a collaborative effort .
14 It ' s a partnership . And so if
15 there ' s anything that we can do to
16 continue helping you move this
17 along -- I mean, the danger is
18 imminent now . I took pictures today .
19 The erosion has reached the fence on
20 the beach side, which means it ' s 3 to
21 4 feet away from the road . So that ' s
22 Soundview Avenue . And it ' s imminent
23 that it ' s going to collapse . So I ' m
24 not really sure if there ' s a way we
25 can bypass the need for the two
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1 remaining signatures , what we can do?
2 And also , I don ' t know if, again, if
3 there ' s any plans to sort of combine
4 the efforts between what you ' re
5 planning on doing with the Town Beach
6 and what the seawall that was planned
7 or thought for our property .
8 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
9 think that ' s part of the thought . I
10 know that Town Trustees are going on
11 a field inspection tomorrow . We ' ve
12 asked them to go and take a look at
13 it because they ' re the ones who have
14 permitted structures . And the
15 coastal erosion has an area all the
16 way along the north shores of town .
17 And so we ' d like their opinion on
18 things that they ' ve seen that worked,
19 that haven ' t worked . And we have had
20 the discussion with the Town Engineer
21 about trying to tie the two --
22 whatever we ' ve got to do there to
23 come up because it ' s that whole
24 section between that jetty to the
25 west of you, all the way through the
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1 -- So yeah, we ' re looking at that . I
2 have talked to one of our regulatory
3 partners , DEC . We talked to them . I
4 called them up probably a month and a
5 half ago to see what our options
6 could be . They ' ve changed so much .
7 Since Sandy has changed so much
8 there . And a little bit of sea level
9 rise has really changed the whole
10 profile . So they ' re not against -- I
11 think, looking at things differently
12 than they did before Sandy . And so
13 once we take a look at it tomorrow,
14 we ' ll contact them, and get them on
15 site to see what they think would be
16 a regulatory approach that they can
17 agree to, so we can come up with
18 something . But we need those two
19 homeowners in between us to be
20 partners in that . They ' re really
21 sticking out there now .
22 EFFIE GALANIS : And I think the
23 issue is -- I think one -- I think
24 both of them don ' t even live on the
25 property . I mean, we obviously don ' t
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1 either because we ' re seasonal , but we
2 stay very close to whatever ' s
3 happening in town, as you can see .
4 So, you know, we ' re trying to reach
5 them . We don ' t know them personally,
6 but we ' re doing our best efforts .
7 But at the same time, at what point
8 can we just say, you know, it ' s the
9 responsibility of the Town to just
10 move forward and not put the road at
11 imminent danger of collapsing and
12 then everything else that will befall
13 thereafter? So, you know, I don ' t
14 know what more we can do or what you
15 all have tried to do to reach them,
16 but is there a chance that we can
17 sort of continue to move forward or
18 bypass or do something whereby we are
19 addressing it actively and not just
20 waiting for the worst to happen?
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No ,
22 you ' re right to be very concerned .
23 And if you want , you know, feel free
24 to meet us there tomorrow afternoon .
25 EFFIE GALANIS : Tomorrow
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1 afternoon?
2 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Yes .
3 EFFIE GALANIS : Okay .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
5 We ' ll -- call the office . We ' re not
6 sure exactly what time . Trying to
7 coordinate a lot of different
8 departments to get there , but it ' ll
9 be sometime after lunch .
10 EFFIE GALANIS : Okay . Al right .
11 Thank you so much .
12 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
13 Okay . Thank you . Thank you for
14 coming because we need a partnership
15 there to make this work .
16 EFFIE GALANIS : Of course .
17 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
18 Would anyone else like to address the
19 Board?
20 JOHN REICHERT : Can I make
21 another comment?
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Not
23 yet . You can at the end, but did
24 everyone else get a chance to speak
25 first?
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1 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Good evening,
2 Benja Schwartz in Cutchogue . I know
3 you all want to go home as I do , so
4 I ' ll be brief, but the comments of
5 the neighbors of the proposed chicken
6 farm really got to me because I think
7 there ' s a lot of merit to what they
8 were saying about, and in two
9 respects . One, the substance , and
10 two, the process . The substance -- I
11 don ' t know that much about chicken
12 farms , although I did work on one . I
13 wouldn ' t want to do that again, but
14 that was an industrial chicken farm .
15 Anyway, just a quick consult with an
16 iPhone here, tells me that the
17 proposed chicken farm is absolutely
18 the maximum size . 6 , 000 birds on 15
19 acres is the maximum amount of birds
20 that could -- that 15 acres could
21 support for organic raising of egg
22 farms . So that tells you when the
23 plan proposed says that they ' re going
24 to build to the absolute maximum size
25 with the minimum . Now, if it ' s true ,
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1 and if you can ' t say limit it to
2 that, then who ' s going to stop them
3 from bringing 12 , 000 , 24 , 000 , 60 , 000
4 chickens into that area? And they
5 could still try to call it an organic
6 chicken farm . They may not be
7 successful , but I think there ' s a --
8 it ' s very suspicious when I see a
9 quick consult with AI telling me that
10 these numbers match up with the
11 absolute maximum size allowed . The
12 other thing is the Planning Board is
13 an independent agency of the Town,
14 but the Town Board is also an
15 overriding agency of the Town, having
16 all the legislative and executive
17 power . What the Planning Board does
18 is not -- you are not supposed to go
19 to the meetings and participate as
20 Planning Board members do and make
21 the decisions , but you are supposed
22 to keep track of what they ' re doing .
23 It ' s hard today with so much
24 information around, but we know
25 something ' s going on there, and it is
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1 incumbent upon you in your roles as
2 Town Board members to see what ' s
3 going on . Maybe we need a moratorium
4 on chicken farms until we can figure
5 it out, and until we can figure out
6 how the right-to-farm does not mean
7 free range to do whatever the farmer
8 wants . No problem with farming in
9 some cases , but in other cases
10 they ' ve filled our aquifers with
11 tamic and I love potatoes , but
12 anyway, you do have the authority,
13 and you have the obligation and the
14 duty to look in there , and there are
15 things you could do legislatively to
16 guide the Planning Board . The
17 Planning Board is not the -- you
18 know, they don ' t have absolute
19 ability, and neither do farmers . So,
20 thank you .
21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
22 Thank you . And we ' re not dismissing
23 their concerns .
24 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Oh, if I could
25 just add one last thing, do you mind?
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1 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No
2 --
3 BENJA SCHWARTZ : Very briefly
4 still . Because -- and this is , you
5 know, to the Town Board . But the
6 other thing is that the Town has
7 historically tried to work with the
8 public through committees . And it
9 hasn ' t -- in my humble opinion,
10 hasn ' t worked out that well . There
11 are a group of different civic
12 associations in the town, and you
13 might want to contact some of them
14 and see if you can get them to work
15 with you to look at this particular
16 issue, but from a broader
17 perspective . So you don ' t have the
18 neighbors who -- it ' s very difficult
19 when you ' re that close to an issue to
20 act .
21 SANDRA KOLLEN : Thank you . I am
22 working with other organizations in
23 Southold . Thank you .
24 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
25 Anyone else who hasn ' t spoken?
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1 ROBERT DUNN : Robert Dunn ,
2 Peconic . I don ' t have a lot of
3 experience in chickens or farming or
4 any of that . But I think you ' d all
5 agree that I have a lot of experience
6 in this room . And the one thing that
7 I ' ve noticed over the 15 years that
8 I ' ve been a regular here , is on these
9 hot button issues , they get solved by
10 compromise . They don ' t get solved by
11 confrontation, ever . So that ' s all
12 I ' m going to say about it . I ' m not
13 taking a side .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 Thank you .
16 ROBERT DUNN : I ' m just saying
17 it ' s compromise . I could give you
18 100 compromises . I mean, starting
19 with the fact that the Town could
20 throw a little money on the table and
21 get the water further in on the
22 property . I mean, it ' s not a good
23 thing to do, but if that ' s going to
24 help everybody, so the Town spends
25 ten grand . It ' s got to come out of
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1 my taxes . I ' m fine with it, if it ' s
2 going to make these people happy .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
4 Thank you .
5 ROBERT DUNN : I got rid of that
6 wood -- that brush, hay, or whatever
7 they dumped on the beach . And while
8 I was there, I noticed a few things .
9 The Town -- the Buildings and
10 Grounds , takes up the cans in the
11 Winter . But unfortunately we have
12 some fools who seem to think the cans
13 are still there . So one guy puts
14 down a 5 gallon can . Well , that 5
15 gallon can was literally a pyramid of
16 dog shit bags . So we ' ve got to do
17 something about that . And if these
18 people are just going to throw their
19 bags on the beach after the -- then
20 maybe it ' s time for the Town, no dogs
21 on the beach . I ' m not advocating
22 that, but I ' m just saying the reason
23 we have laws in general is not for
24 the mass . It ' s for the few who don ' t
25 want to follow good nature . So, I
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1 mean, if we ' ve got to have a law
2 against it , the only way we can keep
3 dog crap off the ground in the
4 parking lot, in piles -- literally
5 piles , a 5 gallon can, then don ' t
6 bring your dog to the beach . It ' s
7 that simple . And the reason I went
8 over the can because there was just a
9 lot of stuff that had been dumped .
10 That ' s a problem that I ' m sure exists
11 at all the beaches . So, you know, I
12 spent 40 years in construction in the
13 City, so I know a lot about debris
14 and dumping and things like that .
15 City solved the dumping problem
16 literally overnight, almost . It was
17 very severe back in the 60 ' s and
18 70 ' s . Cars get impounded . You put
19 dumping, your car gets impounded .
20 You do that three or four times .
21 Problem solved . So it ' s something to
22 consider . I mean, if somebody throws
23 a big couch out the window, you ' re
24 not going to walk out of the car .
25 But if, you know -- if somebody ' s
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1 observed, there ' ll be a couch
2 somewhere . Well , they ought to take
3 the couch home because they can ' t sit
4 in the car anymore . That ' s the
5 solution for that . And are we doing
6 anything about the ducks , the sick
7 ducks ? The dying ducks ? There is
8 about a half dozen .
9 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
10 know the DEC has done some testing
11 and I have heard that some of them
12 have tested positive for the Bird
13 Flu .
14 ROBERT DUNN : I have never seen
15 a duck dead -- 16 years of living
16 there, until this ( inaudible) . I
17 actually had -- what brought my
18 attention to it is , when I was
19 getting that straw . I noticed there
20 was a hole there . What the hell is
21 that? So I went over there . And it
22 was a duck curled up . Then I noticed
23 it moved . Then I went ( inaudible )
24 and it was obviously in trouble . And
25 it ' s just something you ' re going to
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1 need to consider as if someone comes
2 and -- you ' re going to have the kids
3 there .
4 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : No ,
5 you ' re absolutely right . We ' re
6 having a meeting tomorrow, you know
7 about disposal and protecting the
8 beaches . Because it was a tough
9 Winter . You know, they said it was
10 snow, but it was horrible, but I
11 really think that it was average --
12 ROBERT DUNN : They stayed too
13 long .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 Well , yeah, and it was everything
16 freezes over --
17 ROBERT DUNN : Right, there was
18 no food . So, I mean, there ' s a
19 problem with that . They stayed too
20 long because it is getting warmer .
21 People can say whatever they want .
22 It ' s getting warmer . Case closed .
23 And not as many are likely to stay --
24 when the ones from Canada will stay
25 here rather than going to Maryland .
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1 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
2 That ' s been a long discussion
3 between . Again, that ' s a federally
4 regulated wildlife . Even the State
5 defers on that, on the new season .
6 And we tried locally to adjust the
7 seasons because the diagnosis or
8 seasons regulated even the State is
9 the first .
10 ROBERT DUNN : Well , I mean, I
11 don ' t know, to be completely saying,
12 we ' ve got a lot of dead ducks there .
13 And the danger is the kids .
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
15 Sure .
16 ROBERT DUNN : Dogs that are on
17 the beach, they take a bite out of
18 it, then they bring it home , and the
19 whole household ' s got it . And just
20 to comment on -- you were talking
21 about box at the beginning --
22 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
23 Yeah . Town Beach --
24 ROBERT DUNN : Town Beach .
25 Again, four years of discussion . So
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1 if you use block, they got to be
2 drilled .
3 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : Oh
4 no, these are for -- these are for
5 the traffic control . We wanted
6 something -- people that were
7 distracted by the sunset .
8 ROBERT DUNN : Right . But still ,
9 when the water comes in -- whatever
10 you ( inaudible) 1000 .
11 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
12 Thank you . Would anybody else like
13 to address the Board for the first
14 time? Mr . Reichert?
15 JOHN REICHERT : I don ' t know how
16 long it ' s been in front of the
17 Planning Board, but I would hope it
18 would influence someone to change
19 their mind about a chicken farm .
20 When I get told that the
21 Right-to-Farm Law supercedes
22 everything that I have to say,
23 right-to-farm . Too bad .
24 Right-to-farm . The chicken farm is
25 disease carrying . Too bad,
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1 right-to-farm . The stench from the
2 chickens , wouldn ' t be able to use our
3 backyards or open our windows in the
4 summertime . Too bad, right-to-farm .
5 Asthmatic kid in the neighborhood .
6 Too bad, right-to-farm . People have
7 compromised immune systems . Too bad,
8 right-to-farm . What about the right
9 to live? What about my right to live
10 My right to breathe fresh air that ' s
11 not a stench from a chicken . I don ' t
12 understand . I got the same story
13 from Jim Rich as I ' m getting here ,
14 the right-to-farm . We have a right
15 to live . These people invested their
16 money in the -- the Town said, oh,
17 you ' re going to be able to live here
18 as long as you want, put down your
19 roots , raise your children . Ah, but
20 the right-to-farm . There was never a
21 chicken farm there . That was
22 supposed to be more Affordable
23 Housing, but the Town changed the
24 zoning . The Town stabbed these
25 people in the back . The Town
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1 betrayed these people . And
2 everybody, it ' s the right-to-farm .
3 Hey, great , you ' re a farmer . You got
4 a right-to-farm . I have a right to
5 live . I ' m a plumber . Oh, that ' s too
6 bad . You ' re not a farmer . If you
7 were a farmer, you could do as you
8 damn well please . Now, if I came to
9 the Board and I said, I want to raise
10 ducks on my property, I got 42 acres ,
11 I want to raise ducks , and you ' re
12 going to tell me, no, you can ' t raise
13 ducks on the property . It ' s against
14 the Agricultural Law . Oh, but that ' s
15 going to affect the other farm .
16 Because once you turn down the ducks ,
17 what guy growing cabbage , he ' s going
18 to get told he can ' t grow cabbage
19 because it stinks to the Fall .
20 That ' s not true . What farm has ever
21 been closed in this community? None .
22 We ' re not talking about a farm .
23 We ' re talking about a health hazard .
24 A health hazard . Cauliflower, hey,
25 great . I live next door to
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1 cauliflower . They want to grow
2 pumpkins , great . That ' s not
3 affecting my health . It ' s not
4 affecting the property value . You
5 are destroying a community . Absolute
6 destroying that community . And you
7 sit there , your thumb is the
8 right-to-farm . Al , I ' m sorry, but
9 you should be ashamed of yourself .
10 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . :
11 Would anyone else like to address the
12 Board?
13 (No Response . )
14 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : I
15 don ' t see anyone on Zoom . Motion to
16 adjourn?
17 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Motion
18 to adjourn .
19 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH :
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21 SUPERVISOR AL KRUPSKI JR . : All
22 in favor?
23 COUNCILMAN BRIAN MEALY : Aye .
24 COUNCILWOMAN ANNE SMITH : Aye .
25 COUNCILWOMAN ALEXA SUESS : Aye .
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