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BOARD OF TOWN TRUSTEES
TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
`nTNU'T'ES
DUNE 27 ; 1996
PRESENT WERE: Albert J. Krupski, Jr, President
John Holzapfel, Vice-President
Jim King, Trustee
Martin Garrell, Trustee
Peter Wenczel, Trustee
Diane Herbert, Clerk
CALL MEETING TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
NEXT TRUSTEE BOARD MEETING: Wed. July 31, 1996 at 7 p.m.
WORKSESSION: 6: 00 p.m.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve, TRUSTEE KING seconded. ALL
AYES
NEXT FIELD INSPECTION: Wed. July 24, 1996 at 12 noon
APPROVE MINUTES: Approve minutes of May 22, 1996 Regular
Meeting.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve, TRUSTEE KING seconded. ALL
AYES
I . MONTHLY REPORT: The Trustees monthly report for May
1996: A check in the amount of $4,320.29 has been forwarded to
the Supervisor' s Offic.e for the General Fund.
II . PUBLIC NOTICES: Public Notices are posted on the Town
Clerk' s Bulletin Board for review.
III . AMENDMENTS/WAIVERS/CHANGES:
1 . MICHAEL BONTJE requests an° Amendment to Permit #4496 to
add a 3 ' X 12' floating extension to the 16 ' fixed return on the
"J" with 2 pilings. Located: Island View Lane, Greenport.
SCTM 457-2-23
TRUSTEE GARRELL moved to approve the Amendment, TRUSTEE
HOLZAPFEL seconded. ALL AYES
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2. EDWIN BERNHARDT requests an Amendment to Permit #2011 to i
add 4' X 18' of dock to existing dock, ramp, & float, totalling
75 ' as per revised drawing dated June 6, 1996. Located: 500
Koke Drive, Southold. SCTM. #87-5-4
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve the Amendment, . TRUSTEE
GARRELL seconded. ALL AYES
3 . Richard Witzke on behalf of SILVANA CADEDDU requests
an Amendment. to Permit #4343 to install a 15' X 23 ' deck on top
of existing ramp. Located: 1380 Wiggins Lane, East Marion.
SCTM #35-5-23
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve the Amendment, TRUSTEE. KING
seconded. ALL AYES
4. Proper-T Services on behalf of. VIVIEN SOO requests a 90
day extension for payment to Permit, #4558 for a dock, ramp and
float. Located: 265 Cedar Point Drive East, Southold. SCTM
*90-3-9
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve the extension, trustee
Holzapfel seconded. ALL AYES
5 . JONATHAN RARIDON requests a Transfer to Permit #4392 from
Lisa Reale to construct house, deck, etc. as per description
in permit dated 12/22/94. Located: Crescent Ave. , Fishers
Island. SCTM #6-6-20. 5
TRUSTEE KING moved to approve the Transfer, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL
seconded. ALL AYES
6 . J.M.O. Consulting on behalf of CHRISTOPHER DOROSKI
requests a Transfer of Permit #2133 from George Hess and an
Amendment to the permit to allow for the installation of a 3 ' X
8 ' ramp and a 6 ' X 20 ' float with 3 piles to existing dock.
Located: 650 Riley Ave. , Mattituck: . SCTM #143-5-13 .1
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve the Transfer, TRUSTEE GARRELL
seconded. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE. HOLZAPFEL moved to approve the Amendment with condition
that new drawing and description be submitted and that applicant
remove debris from area, TRUSTEE GARItFL . seconded. ALL AYES
7. JAMES KING requests an Amendment to Permit #283 to include
a 3 1/2 ' X 20' ramp to the existing 6' X 60 ' float on the
northwest side of the existing dock. Ramp to be suspended from
a platform on the fixed dock. Located: 220 East Mill Road,
Mattituck. SCTM #106-4-6
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve the Amendment, TRUSTEE
HOLZAPFEL seconded. ALL AYES
8. Doroski Nursery Inc. , on behalf of ANGEL SHORES requests
a Waiver to clear the under brush, vines, bramble bushes and
dead debris from park area. Located: Bayview Road.,
Southold. SCTM #88-6-4, 5 & 13 .1
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved. to approve the Waiver as per Planning
Board' s recommendation, TRUSTEE GARRELL seconded. ALL AYES
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Q . MICHAEL SLADE requests an Amendment to Permit #4440 to
construct approx. 12 ' X 135 ' to 20 ' wide rock revetment instead
of bulkhead to tie into two existing bulkheads as per DEC
requirement and dredge area around docks to depth of from 4'
below MLW to 7 ' to MLW yielding approx. 350 c.y. of spoil
and a 10 year maintenance period as necessary. Located: 1435
West Road, Cutchogue. SCTM #110-7-26
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve the Amendment with condition
that excess spoil be given to the Highway Dept. , TRUSTEE KING
seconded. ALL AYES
10 . En-Consultants Inc. , on behalf of JOHN LA FORCE requests
an Amendment to Permit #4581 to construct a 4 ' X 95' fixed walk
instead of 31 . Located: 8.55 Home Pike, Mattituck. SCTM
#113-9-16
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve the Amendment, TRUSTEE
GARRELL seconded. ALL AYES
11. ARTHUR TORELL requests a second and last one year
extension' to Permit #4165 to construct a one family dwelling.
Located: 365 Westwood Lane, Greenport. SCTM #33-2-10 & 11
TRUSTEE KING moved to approve the last extension, TRUSTEE
GARRELL seconded. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE. HOLZAPFEL moved to go off Regular Meeting and onto the
Public hearings, TRUSTEE KING seconded. ALL AYES
VI . PUBLIC HEARINGS:
THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE FOLLOWING
APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS UNDER THE WETLANDS ORDINANCE OF THE
TOWN OF SOUTHOLD.. I HAVE AN AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION FROM THE
SUFFOLK TIMES. PERTINENCE CORRESPONDENCE MAY BE READ PRIOR TO
ASKING FOR COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC.
PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS ORGANIZED AND BRIEF:
FIVE ( 5) MINUTES OR LESS, IF' POSSIBLE
1. - In the matter of Henry E. Raynor on behalf of MICHAEL
RAYNOR requests a Wetland Permit to remove an existing dock
. and replace with 125' of bulkhead to tie into neighbors existing
bulkhead and backfill with 450 c.y. of fill to stabilize.
Located: 890 Old Harbor Road, 240 ' west of ROW, New Suffolk.
SCTM #117-5-22
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : This. application will be tabled until we can
take another look at it. We talked about it during. the
Worksession.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Second. ALL AYES
2 . - In the matter of PAULETTA B. GURFEIN requests a Wetland
Permit to build stairs from top of bluff to bottom. Located:
2800 Dignan' s Road, approx. 3 , 067 ' northwest of Oregon Road,
LILCO pole #25 & 26, .Cutchogue. SCTM #83-2-13 .5
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there anyone here who would like to speak
in favor of the application? Anyone here who would like to
speak against the application?
ALLAN CONNELL: Just a clarification on our comments. We
recommended approval provided there be 3 ' wide and 3' off the
bluff surface.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: It was -kind of hard to see what the. bluff
looked like from over the edge. Did anyone go onto the beach?
ALLAN CONNELL: Bob. Keith was the one that looked at this. one
and he felt that it was OK.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: What does the Board think? As far as the
width?
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: The width is no problem, it' s the 3 ' high.
You want to protect the vegetation underneath. That' s the only
concern the CAC has.
MR. CONNELL: Right. Protect the vegetation on the bluff and
make sure the stairs are high enough.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Any other comment? Motion to close the
hearing?
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: So moved.
TRUSTEE GARRELL.: Second. ALL AYES. .
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL.: ITll make a motion we approve the
application, with the addition that the stairs be 3 ' above the
bluff.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Second. ALL AYES
3 . - In the matter of MARCUS. & JOANN BRYAN requests a Wetland
& Coastal Erosion Permit to construct 90 l.f. of timber bulkhead
along tow of bluff with 15' return and backfill 10' behind
bulkhead with 125 c.y. of clean sand trucked in from upland
source. Located: 155 Glen Court, Cutchogue.. SCTM 183-1-2
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We will do these two public hearing together
because they're continuous parcels and they are of identical
construction: Anyone here who would like to speak in favor of
the applicant?
DIANNE LE VIERRER: I am representing the Bryans' . This is
pretty much the same case we discussed with Ciaputa and
Arcas. The retaining wall will serve to protect the toe of
the bluff and as far as affecting the beach, in front of the
retaining wall, there are other retaining walls to the east of
this parcel. The beach appears to be unaffected by its presence
and in an effort to contain this shore we' ll let it go at that
. and if you have any questions I will answer them.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Do these link up with people on either side
or. . .
DIANNE: No. There' s a discrepancy with someone who owns, I
believe stairs to the east of their property and they' re not in
accordance with the Bryan' s and the bulkheading. However,
beyond that parcel that that person owns there is bulkheading.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: How steep. . . .that' s pretty steep.
DIANNE: Yes.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : This. doesn.'t call for any stone armoring. I
think we discussed that on the site that that ends at the return
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and should be armored to protect the neighbors on either side.
Any other comment, either in favor or against the application.?
ALLAN CONNELL: I would have to disagree. This application does
not even come close to being like the Arcas because it is
actively eroding and the CAC see a need when a property is in
danger of supporting a bulkhead, and this is a case where a
bulkheading isn' t necessary. The last application., we didn' t
feel bulkheading was necessary because it was not actively
eroding. We don't want to come off as against bulkheading.
We' re not against bulkheading when it' s necessary, but we felt
in this case it wasn't.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Tell you a little secrete Al, when we first
took a look at Ciaputa and the ones on either side, we had our
doubts. It was only after we got Jay Tansky down and we
talked really in detail. Some people from the State and the DEC
that we kind of. . . .we went around the other way. At least
that' s what I did. You just have to keep an open mind and
rethink some of these things. I agree, some of these things you
look at them at first shot and you make a different call but
then up reconsider.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Any one else like to comment? Do I have a
motion to close the hearing?
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: So moved.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Second. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE. GARRELL: I' ll make the motion to approve the
application 'of the Bryan' s with stipulation that. .the returns be
armored with stone.
TRUSTEE KING: Second. ALL AYES
4 . - In the matter of MARCUS & JOANN BRYAN request a Wetland &
Coastal Erosion Permit to construct 89 l.f . of timber bulkhead
along tow of bluff with a 15 ' return and backfill 10 ' behind
bulkhead with 125 c.y. of clean. sand to be trucked in from an
upland source. Located: 255 Glen Court, Cutchogue. SCTM
#83-1-3
5 . - In the matter of Patricia Moore on behalf of CRESCENT BEACH
CONDOMINIUM ASSOC. requests a Wetland Permit to add 68 ' of
fixed dock to existing dock with 7 piles, a 4' X 48' "T" , a 3 ' X
10' ramp and a 6 ' X 20' float. Located: off Maple Lane, Orient
Harbor, Greenport. SCTM #38-1-1-22
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We' ll open the hearing but I 'd like to recess
this until the last Board member is here because he' s bringing
some information on some eel grass studies and I want to include
everything in this. So I ' ll make a motion to recess this public
hearing until we have our final Board member.
TRUSTEE KING: Second. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : We' ll take comments in favor.
PAT MOORE: I'd just like to start by saying- that this
property. . . .I think most of you were there at the inspections
and at the last meeting 'in whether this should be an Amendment
or a Permit. This property started out as a motel in late 1955
and in 1970 ' s was converted to condominiums, and has been used
as such every since that time. Seven slips on the existing
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dock, all structures that are there presently have obtained
permits over the years. In March of 1989 they got a permit and
again in. July 1989 they included the slips. The condominium
consists of 21 condominium units and they had originally
proposed 14 additional slips.. They have 7 presently, and they
were asking for 14. The DEC recommended against. the 7 on the
easterly side because of the conflicts with the adjacent parcel
as well as possible storm damage. . They have reduced. their
request to 7 additional. slips for a total of 14. So they
recognized that right off the bat there. are going to be some
members of the condominium who aren.' t going to have the. benefit
of BOAT slips.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Were in the documents, drawing up the whole.
condominium., were each owner promised a dock? Was that part
of . . . . .
PAT. Of the original prospective?
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Right.
PAT: I don' t know. What has happened over time is when the
dock was built they, my understanding is that the way it' s been
working is, the 7 slips they have a lottery system of those
people, So that they all essentially been fighting over the
same slips. There was no guarantee. The slips that are there
shave shoaled over. They have always been shallow slips to
start, and small.. So that the size of the boat essentially, I
think the biggest boat is 20' . The people in this condo are
not, they don' t have the large 40' vessels that they're trying
to dock there. They have very small run-abouts essentially -
and family type boats. I'm just kind of paraphrasing my letter
in case you weren't able. to read it along the way. The
application that' s been submitted. is consistent with other docks
that were permitted in the area.. You have Cleaves Point which
was just completed and it' s based on a permit for 6' X 245 '
fixed pier with a 6' X 110' outer "T" and a 6' X 100' series of
floats. That's what Cleaves Point has to the east of them.
Then comes the Fakaris. property which was of great concern to
us because they're at the crescent and actually impinge on our
water front. However, the DEC, the Army Corps, and the Trustees
saw fit to grant them a permit and they have 370' of dock that
was approved maybe two or three years ago. So, in line with all
of the permitted structures that are- presently there, our
application is actually less than what is currently on the
adjacent. parcel. I have with me this evening Mr. & Mrs.
Regina. Mr. Regina is the President of the Condominium
Association. That' s why when you asked those questions I
referred to him. I also have the pleasure of Eileen Regina who
has a Masters in Science in Environmental Education. And has
actually published a teachers guide to environmental center.
When she told me of her credentials I said, "wonderful because I
remembered at the inspection, Mr. Wenzel had mentioned eel
grass. And when you mentioned it today, I said, "oh, well I'm
so glad your present" . Because it' s one of the things that I
wanted her to speak to the Board about as far as the existing
conditions faced in there for the past 30 years, and. maybe
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longer. She will be able to answer any questions that you might
have in respect to environmental conditions at that site.
MRS. REGINA: The point that I thought it was important to make
is this area has been heavily used. by people over the past 40
years. Since 1955 since it was built. The swim area which is
adjacent to our dock is heavily used at all. times. Probably the
last few children have been pulled out within the last few
minutes.. It' s constantly being subjected to feet and
recreational clamming and people jumping in and canon balling
off our dock. The point that I'm making is that this is not a
pristine marsh area.. It' s not a nesting area that you would say
this- should remain untouched.. Because it certainly has been
benignly used over the years and certainly been enjoyed by
people, but it certainly not an untouched area. There is eel
grass growing in spite of all the activity that goes on within
our swim area. It seems it remains there and it remains growing
even with the activity going on. There has not ever any attempt
to pull it out but you might say people not understanding that
this is a delicate environment, might say, "oh, pull that out.
There' s sea weed in. the swim area" .. That certainly has never
been the case. And that was the point that I wanted to make.
This is a heavily 'people' used area. It' s a real family kind
of beach area that goes with the condo. A small, not a big
condo. There are a lot of children. There are about 40
offspring of the people who live there and currently using the
place.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : Any other comment?
CAC: The CAC is very concerned about the length of the dock
infringing upon this area, because it is a collective scallop
area and I believe Steve Latson pointed it out at the meeting
we were having on docks in the Bay. In fact, that when you have
a dock that long extending into the Bay it effectively limits a
commercial scalloper from going in there because the docks are
there . and it takes that area out of production from them. And
for that reason number 1 we felt. that we do not it to be
infringing upon that productive eel grass area. We would rather
see this dock going in an east west configuration and not extend
so far out. So that it does not affect potential for harvesting
for scallops in that area.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: I'd like to know at some point why at this
juncture you made the application and not previously and why
this hasn' t been done before.
PAT: What prompted this application?
TRUSTEE GAR.R.EL : Yes..
PAT: The more of the homeowners could use dock space and you
would avoid some of the fighting that' s occurred. However,
there' s also been a great. deal of shoaling in the area and
what used to be the 7 slips that' s what allowed for used to be
about 4 feet and shoaled over and really the first 3 slips have
1 1/2' of depth.. It' s very, very shallow in that area. The
first 7 slips are primarily used by very small boats, canoes.
That' s where they dock..
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TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Excuse me. I was down there the other day and
there' s run-abouts, 151 , 161 , and 17 ' run-abouts in those
slips.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: The way he said that, there' s a direct
conflict there.
PAT: Are you talking about the. first 3 slips because there are
7 .
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: . Well there' s small run-abouts in those -
slips, yes.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: So, which is it though? Are there
run-abouts in those slips?
PAT: I don' t know. You go down there.
MR. REGINA: I would like to, speak that the biggest we have on.
the premises is an 18 1/2' Grady White. When they're in the
slips 1, 2 & 3 at low tide the boats are actually touching the.
sand. And we do put. . . . .we have canoes, we have row boats, we
put them in the slips and even they, at low tide or full moon,
are touching the bottom. According to the Baymen we love the
Baymen. We welcome them. I 'm the president and every owner
there when he see a Baymen comes in and ask how they fish and
clam in front of our place we welcome them, we give them
drinks. . . . . . .I have .to say this, when people chase them, we
welcome them to come in. We give them the room. We bow to
them. I' ll be honest to them. So when you say that we try to
. block a Bayman, it really bothers me. Because we really care
about our Long Island and the people who fish it and live here.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: But, what about the run-abouts. Are there
run-abouts in the firs.t two slips. -
MR. REGINA: Yes, you can fit the run-about but it won't. . . .they
won' t stay there at low tide. You have a problem. They scrape
-:bottom.
'TRUSTEE WENCZEL: The question was, are they in the slip now.
MR. REGINA: ' I don't know.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I was there yesterday, or the day before.
PAT: I was told that the first three slips are very shallow and
it does create a problem for a small craft. It may be that it
was there, and for a. short period of time that it could stay
there during a high tide or close to high tide. But I would
believe that based on the testimony that if the boat were to
remain there throughout the day and evening, it would end up
hitting bottom. And that' s one of the problems that they've
experienced.
MR. REGINA: We had an engineer come in known as John
Geideman, a very, very nice gentleman who. lives in the area
and John came. in and said, "Patrick those couple of slips you' ll
loose in 6 or 7 years' . And he said, "if you have a storm like
1992 you' ll loose in 6 or 7 hours" .
TRUSTEE GARRELL.: Is. there any possibility, if there is a
problem with this, of. reconfiguring the docks as you proposed..
Can you give it some thought to possible re-configuration?
PAT: Mr. Geideman is, he' s not here. Mr. Tuttle is the
engineer who is involved as well. I don't know to what extent
that there' s been discussion. . . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Who' s the applicant?
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PAT: Crescent Beach. Your asking whether configuration dates
have to reply .on the expertise of their engineers. to see whether
or not it' s possible to re-configure this so it can be
accomplished. We' re all layman. . . . . . .I certainly wouldn't be
qualified to answer that and I don' t think you would be
comfortable wither. I just have to remind. the Board that. you've
got two applications that you recently approved that are 50 '
longer than. what we are asking for. And some that were- very
actively aggressively objected to by the Crescent Beach Assoc.
because it affected our ability to design our dock and not be
affected by theirs. It seems somewhat unfair to be putting this
kind of burden on my applicant where you. have two that have gone
through the process and relatively uncomplicated procedures.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Which burden, first of: all?
PAT: As far as re-configuration and going through a lengthy
discussion. The other applications I believe were Amendments to
the permit? I believe they were.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Which ones were they?
PAT: You 'have Cleaves Point and Fakaris. I know Fakaris we
dealt with and objected .to and nobody. . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : You thought it was too long.
PAT: And not so much that but it infringed on our beach front.
They have 50' of beach front and put in a 370' dock. We have
200 ' of beach front and their encroaches over our space.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: What do you mean 'your space' .
PAT: Where you have the frontage, there' s 200 ' of frontage.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: But that' s all State property. That' s public
property, in front.
PAT: No, we have riparian rights over that 2001 . Their dock
goes like this, it crosses over what would be a parallel line
from our property line. If you take a look at. . . . . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I just want a clarification, so we get this
straight. The riparian right thing.
PAT: You. . . . .
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL.: What she' s saying is that the dock comes
this way, in front of their property.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Yes, but it' s not their. . . . . .but it' s State
waters.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: In front of their. . . .imaginary line.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: But you don't own as far as you can see, I
don' t think. I just want to get this. . . .when you say our
riparian rights, you mean yours exclusively?
PAT: Of course not. But our ability to expand and their
ability to expand is all predicated and. the Army Corps has you
considered the property limits that you are extending. So that
they looked at the extension and they look at the dimensions of
the property. Fakaris went beyond their dimensions and. into
our imaginary line that goes straight out. You understand that?
MR. REGINA: It' s a crescent. Fakaris' s dock is this way,
( indicating) ours. is this way. It' s incredible how. . . . .it' s
blocking us. It' s actually coming on us. And. what I feel is
that if he extends this dock, we are going to be blocked in.
We' ll actually blocked. You have to see it to believe it.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : We've been out there many times.
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TRUSTEE GARRELL: I can't remember myself when we approved
those, sitting on the Board to approve them.
PAT: Mr. Bredemeyer was. . . . .
TRUSTEE GARRELL: So it was a. different Board except for
Albert.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: It was quite a while ago.
PAT: No, it' s not that long ago. It was approved. Oct. 1995 and
they just finished, they completed their structures months. ago.
They were finishing up when we. were out there. Fakaris. was in.
1992.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I want to point out that around the dock on
either side is as they pointed out in the 'area that the dock is
to be expanded in there is eel. grass. bed. Some of it is patchy
and some of it is fairly luxuriant. The further to the west
that you go in that cove, the dock on the end. . . . .what was the
name of the dock on the end?
PAT: Cleaves Point.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Number 1. When you get down by Cleaves Point,
the eel grass is not particularly thick. In fact, where that
particular dock is is maybe the eastward limit of the eel grass
bed, as you go to the west along that shore to where your dock
is down towards the entrance to Gull Pond, in fact, all away to
the breakwater is a real nice eel grass bed. Number 2. I think
everybody realizes and it certainly has been demonstrated by the
Brown Tide studies and the Peconic Estuary Programs work that
eel grass have been reduced in recent years. A lot of it' s been
laid to the fact that we've had all this Brown Tide that limit
the light penetration and whatnot. But there may be other
factors and certainly in the amount of time that I've been on
the water, the eel grass beds probably have been reduced as much
as 50% over all. Not 50% everywhere, but I think I could safely
say 50% over all. It' s very clear when you go down on those
docks, and particularly on your dock, that either the boat usage
of the dock or the structure itself has affected the eel grass
abundance around the dock. I pointed that out to the Board that
if you looked where the boats actually are docked there and
where the boat slips are there is no or little grass. Once you
get beyond the outer poles, the eel grass starts. I don't know
why that is exactly. There are some places where eel grass
seems to grow fairly well near boats but it doesn't look like
it' s doing too well there. Number 4. This particular area is a
viable shellfish bed. I have caught scallops there, I list lots
and lots of other people that have. Unfortunately we don' t have
any scallops this year. within the last year or two, I have
actually scalloped there and been so close to the dock I bumped
.into it. Because that' s where the scallops were. When you put
a permanent structure of any type, even a pole. . . . . .and I hate
to tell you guys this but nobody is going scalloping in Cleaves
Point anymore. Take a look at that structure. Nobody is going
in there anymore. Even in small boats the way they have that.
configuration with all those poles. When a dock like Crescent.
Cove is proposing it extended., they' re not gonna. be scalloping
there either. At least with dredges and small boats. That' s a
fact. There is also, and these folks pointed out there' s also a
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viable clam fishing there. I know there' s guys who dig there.
There dense sets of clams all along from the Breakwater to
Orient in the last couple of years and those are some of the
only areas this time of year. All our creeks are essentially
shut down. There's a couple that are open. The fellows who
depend on clams for a living are forced now to work out in the
Bay and they end up working on the edges of these grass. beds
wadding out, raking or what ever, and this. is a viable area.
Obviously you could clam. a little easier than you can scallop in
an area like that but the more boats you put in this cove and
this area the more likely it is to be closed. We all know the
DEC will close an. area that has a lot of boats in it simply on
the suspicion that some of those boats have: a potential to
discharge sewage. It doesn't have to be proven. If you have
boats in the area, and I know you have small boats in your dock,
but if you have boats in the area that have the potential to
have a 'head' on it, they will close the area. , That's a fact.
Orient Yacht Club is closed most of the year for that very
reason. There is no water quality data that says it' s bad, it
just simply the possibility that a boat there may discharge that
they close it for that reason. Number 5. Where those docks are
is public property. That property belongs to all of us.
Residence of Southold,: residence of New York State. I firmly
believe it is wrong to give public property away when we have so
little left. A large portion of the Bay is not public property
anymore. There are still fords of oyster leases and private
ownership out there. There are large areas that are unused now
but are. still privately owned. There' s a growing trend to use
some of these oyster leases.. I believe every square inch of
public property should be protected for the. public' s use because
if we don' t in the near future there won't be any. If we give
it all away to private use, then we will no longer have public
property. Although you. may think it's kind of radical I don' t
agree, and this is my personal opinion, I don' t agree riparian
rights grants you the right to exclusive use of the underwater
land in front of your property. It grants you the right to '
reach navigable water as I understand it. It seems to me that
this public property that I should have just as much right to
moor my boat there _or put a dock there as anybody else in the
State of New York. That' s my personal opinion. If we allow,
and we have, maybe not this Board, we certainly have in the last
number of years, allowed this are to become monopolized by the
individuals who own those condos there, the rest of us will
not be able to use them. that' s a fact. Number 6. I think if
these condo projects or whatever, would. like a private marina
.than they ought to excavate their private property and build
it. Not give away public property. I hate to shoot down one of .
your other arguments, but I was there at 10:30 and there was
nobody in the water. It was a bright sunny day. There were
run-abouts in all those slips. They weren't huge, that.' s
correct. but they were floating.. It was 10: 30 in the morning
and the tide was about half tide. I pulled right in. In my
boat I draw 2 1/2' of water right up to the last slip and I
didn' t run aground. I believe that maybe at low water there may
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have been a foot and a half. That' s probably true. My last
point is that I'm not sure that some of the. Board don' t want to
hear this but, I 'm gonna say it again, it was a mistake to
grant any of those docks in that area. It was a mistake to
allow Cleaves Point to install permanent docks there and
monopolize it further. And it would be a mistake to take away
this piece of public property from the residents of New York
State and allow private interest exclusive use.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Any other Board comment?
TRUSTEE GARRELL.: How many more boats would your proposal bring
in? Or how many more slips would be avai.lable? Secondly and
this is for Pete I suppose, whether a re-configuration would be
a solution at all. Would there be a possible re-configuring
around the eel grass beds. If there were then the immediate
thought be to bring in Geideman or any engineer and see if
designing something that would fit. Now whether that could be
done I don' t know.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Just .as far as the eel grass goes, the further
west you go the thicker it gets, and it' s just about up to the
shore there, from what I saw.
PAT: It would seem to me that what you stated before was.
correct that the eel grass gets denser as you go west, which
goes against the recommendation to modify the design. Also
you've got the existing. . . .you have a concentrated area right
now within 100-200' most of the boats are. going to position
themselves. Ih addition you have the swim areas where there is
a lot of activity by the families that occupy those units. So
it seems to me environmentally better if you were to concentrate
.the use in a narrower condensed area. than to try to spread it
out along the whole crescent which the suggestion made to
reconfiguring.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: How many more docks?
PAT: Seven. Only seven. we've got seven, very small docks,
very small slips, and we want an additional seven.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: When did you have the discussion with the
State when they discouraged you from using the east side?
PAT: I 'm getting this from Mr. Geideman. When he applied to
the DEC, and we have the permit from the DEC now, recommended
against the slips on the east side and its my understanding
because of the storm factor. And I don't know to what extent
that they felt the storm damage and the affect of the waves on
the boats and so on, they felt that the east was. just not
acceptable. They didn't want any slips on the east side. And
therefore we Amended our application with the DEC and only
provided for on the west side. and therefore reduced the number
of additional slips from and additional 14 to only 7.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL.: When I was looking at it the other day it
really seemed like with all that structure to the east therethat
there' s probably a lot of protection on the west side.
PAT: The east side.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Yes, the east side.
PAT: Mr. Geideman was representing my clients with respect to
the DEC and the DEC felt. very strongly about that and again
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partly because of the infringement of the adjacent docks that
putting the slips on both sides was gonna create a problem.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Did they look at since Cleaves Point completed
their monstrosity there?
PAT: Well the application was. done simultaneously. . . .
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Well the work was finished at Cleaves Point,
right?
PAT: Yes. they have the DEC permit.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL.: But, what I 'm saying is it' s a different place
now that Cleaves Point has completed that splash wall under the
dock.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: They have splash wall that they put that
blocks all the waves.. They put it on the east side of their
dock. It becomes almost a breakwater.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: What' s being suggested I think is the way your
dock stands now all the slips are to the west. 7 slips.
couldn' t you create 7 slips, granted the first slip isn' t
gonna have a lot of water, 7 slips to the east side directly
opposite to those 7 slips.
MR. REGINA. That' s the swim area where all the children swim.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Could you change the swim area?
MR. REGINA: No, we don' t own it. there' s no where else to go.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We'd like to work with you on this. And
obviously this is not a straight forward application.
PAT: I 'd like to address the property rights issues. We're
dealing with environmental factors and I think I have testimony
on the record from someone who lives there but is also has
expertise in the field. That that area is not a pristine area
that. . . .in relation to the type of environmental concerns that
you obviously are concerned with and have to. address. This
isarea is a heavily used area. It is not pristine. The eel
grass that you' re concerned with has been able to thrive, even
despite the activity.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I don' t want to get into what is pristine.
, because if its eel grass habitat it means that' s where the eel
grass wants to go. there' s not definition in the code of what
pristine is. Your saying it' s not pristine. The Bay is
affected by mea' s activity for the last 400 hears, se'r.iously for
the last 50. So when you want to say what' s pristine, tell me
what area in the Bay you would consider is pristine, and we
would use that as a bench mark.
PAT: Let me suggest something. There' s a balancing test that
we apply here at all times. I know that this applies it.
There' s a balancing test between my clients, the property owners.
that pay taxes on their property and have a certain. right to use
their property and of course has to certain extent described. the
riparian right. The rights to use the property, the water front
property that they own.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: That they own. The water and. property that
they own. Absolutely.
PAT: I won' t get into the court. . . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well you could. Maybe you should. Because I
don' t understand the way your going with this. If they own the
property, they definitely have property rights. It' s my
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opinion, and this is why I asked you, because there are areas.,
and you've gotten into the area of riparian rights, and we own
it. I was wondering what you meant by "we" before, because some
areas of the Bay, as Peter said, are privately owned or
privately leased. And if this is the case then we look at it
differently because the client would have private property
rights. Now if this is State water. It' s public property. And
then it' s different. Everyone in the State has the right to use
that property as opposed to private property.
PAT: Again there' s a balancing test. And the right for
clammers to come clam as for fishermen to use the property.
It' s balanced with the rights of the property owners to put in a '
very modest size dock compared. to the other docks that have been
approved in the. very short time frame.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I 'd just like to point out that we all pay
taxes and it belongs to all of us.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: I 'm beginning to think that there' s a middle
way out of this. And that is we have a series of working
Osessions with DEC presumably coming down. I would suggest
that we get hold of Mr. Geideman. We' ll. get together and see
if there' s a way to re-configure that in accord with what' s
there right now and accord with the changes that have been made
with Cleaves Point with the splash wall.. And see if something
can be worked out for 7 slips. It sounds like it should be
possible to try something to shoehorn something in there and do
it in satisfactory way. At least it worth an attempt.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Because what you said, "mistakes have been
made in the past in the east" . And we really don' t want the
Board to repeat those mistakes..
PAT: I 've said that. But where we' re talking about at Cleaves
Point only two months. . . . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : But you can' t have it both ways. You can' t
say you want like they- had it, but it' s a mistake.
PAT: No, but what we' re saying is that don' t. . . . let' s all of us
play by the same rules. The concern that we had is that
Fakaris went by his own rules and that was a different Board
obviously, but they did play by his own rules and got everything
he wanted by just barreling right through. Cleaves Point went
through the process, they got an extension of their dock which
is larger than the application we have pending, and it' s within
100 ' of our dock. The DEC has given us approval for the entire
project, and here we are and 4 months have gone by and. . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well you changed the application also.
PAT: No. The direction that Mr. Geideman, I wasn' t involved
then, was told to proceed was as an Amendment to the permit.
That' s what he did and ultimately after our inspection we agreed.
fine, we' ll come in as a public. hearing and put all the
information on record and have a public hearing. So we were
hoping to complete this product within a reasonable time..
TRUSTEE GARRELL: What was Mr. Geideman' s amendment?
PAT: It was this application. It was originally considered
that because there were only 7 additional slips as an Amendment.
,MR. REGINA: I fished and clammed this area since 1964. I have
lived every inch of that water. When you say the eel grass is
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thicker where we are than in front of Cleaves Point or in front
Fakaris' s, I have to totally disagree with that. . You mean
from me to you is Fakaris' s dock., a little further, 50' away,
and the eel grass lives it with 40 children around and we' re
hurting the eel grass. We wouldn' t hurt anything in the
environmental. I am totally for the environment.. We are a
small place, we respect, we clean the beach. we welcome anybody,
we take care of the environment. When you tell me that I've
been since 1964, fishing, clamming, scalloping there. and to say
that there' s 50' to 60 ' separates between flourishing eel grass.
and no eel grass, that I tend to differ with that gentlemen..
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: That' s. not what I said. Let me define what. I
said.
MR. REGINA: Under the boats there has never been eel grass' in
that area. The twisting sand from the storm, when you just
looked at it. . . .from the storm as 1992 pushed tremendous amounts
of sand in that area. we used to have 3 ' under the deck house
and if you clammed there and scalloped there you would notice it
that the sand has built up almost, say 2 1/2' almost 3 ' in
height that covered all that area.
TRUSTEEWENCZEL: Behind the dock, I know, where the boat slips
are because the structure is there.
MR. REGINA: Yes. No, no, no. Not so. It built up there. So
when you tell me this wear from the environment and Cleaves
Point didn' t hurt the environment, or Fakaris didn't, and I'm
not saying two rights make a wrong, or whatever, you issued
those permits, and we' re asking to satisfy. . . .We have 11 or 12
boats, we only have 7 slips, and we keep small boats. I cannot
see where we hurting the environment and these conglomerate can
get away with having owning. 100 ' of beach front and having 300
odd feet of dock is beyond my imagination. And Cleaves
Point. . . .built a marina in front of their house. And we're
asking for a little bit to satisfy the home owners and have
small boats put in front of the place and not hurt the
environment. And we' ll still welcome you in front of our house
when you come there.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Just to clear that up. I was vehemently
opposed to Cleaves Point. I votes against it. When I described
the eel grass I was not saying that they had no affect on it., I
said that the further east you go along that shoreline, the edge
gets narrower and the bed gets lets sparse. When you get to the
east side of Cleaves Point dock, there is very little eel grass
on that edge. I. didn't say they had no affect. Believe me, I
was vehemently opposed to having that dock. I virtually a
similar speech and I voted against it. So don' t misunderstand-.
MR. REGINA: I'm not. We -had the same amount of eel grass as
they did.
TRUSTEE. KRUPSKI.: Believe me, Pat, we' re not looking for
a. . . . .we'd like to resolve these things: as they come up because
we have long agendas. And if it doesn' t get resolved, it' s
there again next month. So it' s to no advantage to us. It' s
not like we' re trying to string you people along. We' re not.
We' re trying to do the right thing. Mistakes have been made in
the past on the docks. We'd hate to blindly go along and repeat
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those mistakes because then there'd be no sense in having a
Board. Could be meet with you, on site; 'and try to work
something out?
PAT: That would be lovely because we don' t want to go back and
forth. If you could get the DEC to come out and. . . . . .I think
the important point for the applicant is to get the number of
boat slips that he needs and meets the depths that accommodate
the condos.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKT: I 'm going to make a motion to recess the
hearing.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPEEL: Second. ALL AYES
6 . - In the matter of En-Consultants Inc. , on behalf of JOHN
LYNCH requests a Wetland Permit to construct 120 l.f. of timber
bulkhead. with 2- 8' returns and dredge an area up to 10 ' in
front of new bulkhead to a max. depth of 3 ' below ALW.
Located: 1020 Glenn Road, Southold. SCTM #78-2-28
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there anyone here in favor of the
application?
DIANNE: I'm here on behalf of Mr. Lynch. He is here, and also
with Steve Paulick and they will be happy to discuss the
application. I heard from. Diane that he Board. was considering
denying the application because they didn' t feel that it was
necessary. We brought some photographs indication there is
serious erosion on the bank of Mr. Lynch' s property. It' s a
serious problem and needs to be corrected. He is here and has
supplied some great photographs. I don' t know what time you
went to look at the property. I believe it was about 11: OO, am.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : No, it was probably 8: 00 am.
DIANNE: Around. high tide, you couldn' t really get a good idea
of the situation.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Because it was high tide or because it wasn' t
high tide.
DIANNE: Because it was high tide.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I don' t think it was high tide.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: What day were we there?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : 19th. This is where we were.
DIANNE: Because when I was there it was about high tide and you
couldn' t really get a good idea.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: No this is low tide, we were there about
mid-tide.
DIANNE: At low tide you can see, the trees are falling into the
creek and the bank is eroding.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: This is basically what we call. ' cut and fill'
operation. And this is something that we haven' t allowed, that.
I can remember since the days before Paul. Stoutenberg.
Because what this does is destroy inter tidal marsh which is the
productive area of the creek. as far as the marine life. That' s
why it hasn' t been allowed in probably 20 years. So this is not
something that has just come up in the past five minutes..
DIANNE: Then how do you explain the fact that there was a
permit already issued for this property- for a bulkhead for a
similar. . .
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : I don't know. In 1993? Different Board.
Thirteen years ago they saw things differently.
STEVE: Where is the -marsh in some of these photographs?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We were there.
STEVE: I don' t see any grass there.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: That' s all inter tidal area. That' s all
productive marine area.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Marsh doesn't need to have grass.
STEVE: Then how come the trees. are falling into the creek if
there isn' t an erosion problem? There are trees that are in the
water. Now what' s Mr. Lynch supposed to do? Is he supposed to
let the trees fall into the water?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: This is a straight forward 'cut and fill'
bulkheading operation. Steve have you ever seen one of these
done in Southold?
STEVE: Yes, when I worked for Pat Karry we did one right down
the creek.
TRUSTEE. KRUPSKI: Also down the creek I was on the Board then,
and we denied one to the east of there, same scenario.
STEVE: We did 2001 .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We denied. the application when I was on the
Board to complete that into a basin.. Because all it does is
sterilize the creek and once you loose your filtering capacity,
once you loose your biology in the creek it just becomes a
cesspool basically.
ALLAN: But you don' t think the bank will keep eroding?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: The erosion in this case can be solved in
other manners besides cut and fill. operation.
STEVE: What if we kept the bulkhead back and maybe plant some
beach grass or. . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : But in this case where the bank slopes down
then your talking about a retaining wall.
STEVE: The bank doesn't slope down.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well that' s what I mean. That' s exactly what
I mean. It doesn' t slope down. You'd be putting a retaining up
on your lawn and that wouldn't solve your erosion problem.
STEVE: Ultimately, I've been Mattituck for 25 years on Peconic
Bay. We just bought this house in January and I know what
happens out there. In Camp Mineola used to be 100 ' out, and
then basically the erosion. Part of what we are doing here is
that the creek narrows down there. There' s bulkheading across
the way and Mr. Torkelson, who signed the consent for me says
to me, "every time. a boat goes. by he can see it just eroding on
our side because it's set far back with him. So we' re kind of
out in the middle there and as that tide comes by it just keeps
taking it and taking it. And if I can stabilize it then I think
if I have to loose something in the front,. I don' t really care,
as long as I can stabilize it so it doesn' t keep going down.
There' s some pretty good trees that. have come down and you can
see in the pictures there. I got some with 6 and 7 inch
girths. Some of them are just the roots. When we got. the house
in December I saw the first low tide. I looked under and
couldn' t believe what I saw. All the roots are hanging under
there. Every time they get a wash, it keeps going.
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : We'd be happy to work with you with a planting
plan that will stabilize and re-grading plan but as far as the
cut and fill operation I would say that was pretty much out of
the question. Have you contacted the DEC?
DIANNE: We've applied to the DEC and have gotten a complete
application back from them but we haven' t gotten any permits.
Because of the SEQRA process. . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: No we don' t do SEQRA.
DIANNE: Oh, you don.' t?
MR. LYNCH: I 'm not an attorney and I didn' t come here prepared
to do it. on a legal basis. I thought what I saw here was enough
loosing the. land and. I heard a lot. . . .Mr. Samuels took a look at
it also on my behalf. .
TRUSTEE GARRELL: But that' s the Sound.
MR. LYNCH: It;s still property, Mr. Garrell.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Yes I know, but the Soil Conservation Service
and the DEC do things differently. When we have a project like
this we generally confer with them and. work out a solution. We
think this is a different ' animal' entirely.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Completely different.
MR. LYNCH: I know it' s not Grandfathered because he didn' t
build it to permit. But by the same token it not that long ago,
13 years, where they saw it. then and thought it needed it. And.
they weren' t granting them then, like you say, 20 years. They
haven' t been doing it for 20 years and when they saw this one at
that time and it' s gotten worse since that time. This one
sticks out into the creek. The people across the way in fact
are tired of looking at it. The one lady gave me a consensus.
She said all we see is that bank eroding all the time and the
trees in the water. I 'd like to put that in the record also.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Sure.
MR. LYNCH: Torkelson is next door to me and that' s the lady
across the way.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Yes, we saw some bulkheading across the way.
MR. LYNCH: I thought I had those pictures on the too. So if at
least at the narrow area if you stabilize it, that' s all its
gonna do fill that creek in right there. You look at those
low tide pictures,' it' s very low there. And everybody says it.
That' s the lowest part of the creek there and it' s gonna keep
getting that way.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: I think our feeling is we would like to see
you try to use a soft solution to this particular problem
first. Instead of a hard solution.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI-: It' s not Long Island Sound where you get sever
storm. . . .
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: It' s completely different. . . .and you have
30 ' of water. That' s as wide as it is.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: We were there very close within an hour of low
tide. So we did get a good look.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: But it' s still a 'c:ut and fill' operation.
It' s not something that we would approve.
MR. LYNCH: Maybe I don't understand. the 'cut and fill' part.
MR. SAMUELS: Yeah, I don' t understand ' cut and fill' .
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: You cut the bank and dredge out and refill
behind it. You cut in front of it and fill behind it and
destroy the .whole inter-tidal area.
MR. SAMUELS: If in fact. . . .what confuses me here is West Creek
is what we call a man made creek. It was dredged years ago.
The spoil was put on. the upland. If I were to come to your
today with an application to dredge West Creek, essentially is a
cut and fill operation, we would not get that permit would we?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well no, you don' t know that. It' s a
maintenance dredging permit.
MR. SAMUELS: I shouldn't prejudge. I take that back. But
what' s happening is the loss of upland and especially fine
soils, not sand, is gradually shallowing up that creek at Mr.
Lynchs' property, which is a critical area. Beyond .that it' s
pretty tough. Mr. Lynch, and I'm not the contractor, but has
lived in Southold for 25 years. As a long time resident, he
probably, when he looked at the property, believed, and when you
obviously see a loss of property, there is indigenous vegetation
falling into the creek. It' s not planted stuff, I would assume
that Mr. Lynch, and also if I looked. at it as a long time
resident of the town, that you could put- a- retaining wall to
protect that upland. Now as_ far as the dredging is concerned
that' s another question completely. But as far as protecting
his vegetation is concerned, I. would think that inherent in what
the Trustees stand for. You, on your new applications, you are
requiring indigenous.. vegetation be planted. Now if the soft
approach. .would work for any of these properties, people would do
it. It is inexpensive. I' ll bet you a dollar to a donut Mr.
Lynch would rather not spend $100 a foot for a bulkhead., if the
soft approach would work. . . . .we have done over 65 soft
approaches primarily in East Hampton on 3 Mile Harbor which is a
creek and other areas. And the first storm surge you get, you
loose everything. Including omoflor with -ten foot rise zones
going down into the ground. If the soft approach were good, I
wouldn' t have a business. I have sympathy for Mr. Lynch.
Beyond that I can't say much more. But it would seem. to me when
he looked at that property and having lived in this town on
bulkheaded property for years, and I'm sure he' s been up on
all the creeks. all these years, he' s- seen bulkheads which are
similar. And Al, I've built upland retaining walls above little
patents fringes and alterna fringes in the last 20 years.
They' re difficult to build and where. you don' t- damage the marsh
in front of it. In point of fact, the Board has mitigated marsh
plantings in front of them after we have completed it on
occasion. I don' t see any way Mr. Lynch can protect his upland
in that vegetation with other than a hard structure or rock
which would be too big a foot print which would do more damage
than it' s worth. Personally I can' t see any alternative to it.
And it would prevent to some extent the shallowing of that
creek at the bend.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: We had less of a problem with putting a hard.
structure in there when we did with the dredging. I think that
was the connection, between the two was there.
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MR. LYNCH: The dredging wasn' t something that I precipitated
on. . . .Torkelson next to me, is very low., , I don' t know if you.
can see it, his slopes right down to the water. This is so much
higher. I 'd have to tear that all out to get that same effect.
I don' t want to do that. I like the trees and. I like the way
they are.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Can' t we meet you out on the site? It would
be the best way.
MR. LYNCH: Sure.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Can we include the DEC in this, because your
gonna require their 'blessing' in. this also. It' s better if
we' re all there together.
MR. LYNCH: As Mr. Samuels said, I 'm an attorney and deal with
land development all my- life, and I -took a look at that when I
bought it, and saw on my survey that it went out another 15 ' of
my land into the creek. I think from the plumber, he did the
sub-division. And laid them out and I don' t know whether they
dug the creek after they laid them out but I have land that goes
15 ' technically into the creek. I saw that, I saw the old
permit and said to myself, I would think I would have to get
some kind of. . . . . .I wouldn't condition it. . . .buying it. I love
the house, I love the property. It' s my third last house.
MR. SAMUELS: How would you feel or consider if this is a
retaining wall?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Let' s look at it on site. Because that' s too
generic to move it landward. CAC comments? This is one where
it' s gonna be substantially revised. We' re gonna table the
whole thing. No matter what happens we' re not gonna make you
re-apply or make you re-submit.
SPEAKER: On the property next door to this, there are trees all
falling in the water now. Who takes care of them? Does the
town? I live north of there.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Call the Bay Constable. He' ll come and pull ,
them out.
SPEAKER: He' ll pull. them out?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: He should if it' s a navigational hazard, sure.
SPEAKER: It' s hanging over the land.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Oh, its hanging over the water.
SPEAKER: I had one tree go in the water in the storm and I
pulled it out myself. I'm getting too old for that stuff. When
you talk about animal life there. The creek years ago, there
was fish in it. Now you can' t even see a killie this year.
Because you biggest offender in that area is the Town itself,
with the drain that goes in. And the Town has done nothing
about it. You got the drain right at the end of the creek going
right into it. And nobody does nothing about it. They talk
"oh, the Town is gonna do this" . I've been there 16 years,
and haven' t seen the Town do a damn thing.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We're working on two drainage projects right
now.
SPEAKER: They' re always working on something else.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: The problem is we've all learned something
over 20 years and we've all something over 30 years. You live
in the Town too, we all live in the Town, we've all got to pay
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taxes. But if we were to go after every drain project
simultaneously that' s need going after, it would cost something.
like •3 or 4 million dollars. Now we can' t go after that all in
taxes in one shot, so we' re doing it a couple of drains at a
time. It may take 20 years, your Grandchildren may live to see
it. I hope they do. But the point is we cannot do it all at
once. And we' re tackling it. But don' t. hit up on us all at
once.
SPEAKER: I just laugh at it because I think they do studies. of
Goose Creek and they just. ignore. West Creek and they say "that
doesn' t go in" . When they made the map I didn't see any of the
drains that were along Glen. Road. I didn't see any of the
drains. shown on the map. This. man is trying to benefit all the
people who live there.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We're not denying there' s a big problem at all.
SPEAKER: Because I lived there a lot of years and I haven' t
bulkheaded. but a lot of my property has gone into that creek.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Does CAC have any comments?
ALLAN CONNELL: We requested that if there are any revised plans
that we see them.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I' ll make a motion to table the application,
TRUS.TEE. HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
7. - In the matter of STEVEN BELLAVIA requests a Wetland
Permit to construct a 4' X 121 open pile dock and steps, a 4' X
12' ramp and a 5 ' X 16' floating dock with associated pilings.
Located: 380 Lupton Point Road, Mattituck. SCTM #115-11-21
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there anyone here who. would like to
comments on this either fore or against this application? CAC
recommends approval.
TRUSTEE KING: I went down and took a look and in the back yard
you could hardly get through. I went down the adjoining
property and it looks alright. The only problem, the neighbor
to the east has a dock and a boat and they're gonna have hard
time getting around his boat. That' s only a little ditch there.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is he the last house there?
TRUSTEE KING: I think there is one more house.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Will they be able to get by him?
TRUSTEE KING: I don' t think he' s got any more construction than
the other one. But they're small boats there.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Can we cut it back by 2' or something, is that
gonna make a difference?
TRUSTEE KING: Like I said. it was hard to see,, probably not..
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL.: If this was the. actual canal.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: That' s just a drawing, and not really what is
represented there. When we approved the house I think we made a
provision for a berm in here so the. water wouldn't flush out
into the creek..
TRUSTEE KING:. It' s really narrow and shallow. I don't think
it' s a problem.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Do I have a motion to close the hearing?
TRUSTEE GARRELL: So moved.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES.
TRUSTEE KING: Motion to approve.
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TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
8 . - In the matter of Costello Marine on behalf of STANLEY J.
CIAPUTA requests a Wetland. & Coastal Erosion Permit to install
200 ' of timber bulkhead to attach to neighbors proposed
bulkheads east and west and backf ill with clean fill from
approved upland source. Located: 635 Soundview Ave.,
Southold. SCTM #(50-2-7
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there anyone here who would like to speak
in favor of the application?
JOHN COSTELLO: There. is erosion the property, There are
pictures which I would like to enter into the record. There is
sliding on .that cliff, but vegetation is there but there' s many
places were it is sliding. This whole area is sliding is
because. . . . . (defected tape, skipping portions. of conversation)
I would be happy to answer any questions you have in regard to
information on this property.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: One question. Is Arcas to the east or west
of Ciaputa?
MR. COSTELLO: Both. There' s a parcel on each side.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: And it says to join up with the neighbors..
Does that mean only Ciaputa or is there bulkheading to either
side?
MR. COSTELLO: Ciaputa is in the middle. There' s 200 ' in the
middle and there' s Arcas on either side. Of all three of
these contiguous. . . . (skipped)
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: And all three will be armored with rock when
they' re done?
MR. COSTELLO: Yes.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Because it wasn' t in the. . . . .it was in one
description but not in the other.
MR. COSTELLO: This is a resumption I believe. . . . . ( skipped)
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : Will you be restoring the bluff at all?
MR. COSTELLO: Just the area that will be backfilled. Not the
vegetation. . . . . . ( skipped) It just happens that the vegetation
is sloped. . . . (skipped)
TRUSTEE GARRELL: John, what' s that slope. Isn' t that something.
4 to 1 or 3 to 1?
MR. COSTELLO: There is a couple of cavities in different
areas. But it can be done.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: I think you have to start the toe. . . . . .
MR. COSTELLO: The thing is, there is plenty of vegetation
there. If you could stop the vegetation from moving and the
only way to stop it is the toe erosion.. There are several
instances, and we have been involved in several cas.es in a much
more extremely severe than. . . . ( skipped)
TRUSTEE GARRELL- That' s the kind of thing I was thinking of.
MR. COSTELLO: But there should be planting and vegetation and a
limit for the vegetation being too. . . . . ( skipped, turned tape
over) . If there' s enough vegetation down below, it can handle
it. ( skipped) The vegetation. is very difficult to grown there
where the whole cliff is sliding. I ' ll give you these
_ photographs to enter into the record.
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ALLAN CONNELL: Just one question. As the low on the erosion on
the bluff. . . (skipped)
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : We did talk about that, I don't know if it' s
that simple. After all I 've heard last week I don' t think it' s
that simple as those people trying to feed the Sound with sand..
From what I've heard and this is what these three experts
thought, during a storm event, you loose say, . 20 ' in one day,
now many cubic yards of material is that? They said that at
least 950 of that is lost off shore during a storm event. That
most of that. . .just doesn' t storm off and stay and move along
the shore, most of that is lost. in that storm event because the
storm' s eating at the toe then. it slumps down and of course
that' s soft, so that gets swept right out to deeper waters,
except for the cobbles and boulders. All the sand and even the
gravel are swept off shore and they never contribute to long
shore movement of sand.
ALLAN CONNEL.: I think that' s very accurate. Under a sever
storm conditions that. . . . . (skipped)
TRUSTEE GAR.REL: OK your not bulkheading to- the tippy top of
the bluff and cutting off the whole bluff. Your armoring down
below, your bulkhead only goes up so high, so you use to furnish
some of the nourishment. Because your not cutting off the whole
supply but your protecting from storms.
ALLAN CONNELL: But your making the assumption that the above
area .is eroding and that' s. . . (skipped)
TRUSTEE GARREL : You look at what' s coming down say, below the
gazebo up there, and boy, right now that doesn't look stable at
all. There are major trees up there where roots are exposed and
all kinds of .things. That top is not stable.
ALLAN CONNELL: Once you put a hard structure at the toe of the
bluff, your absolutely right, that' s gonna stop that toe
erosion. . . . (skipped)
TRUSTEE GARRELL: You may not be solving that problem there with
that, you may. . . ( skipped) if you go further with terracing,
Ciaputa may wind up five years from now or so having to chip
off the top of the bluff to slope it out some more, some of the
sand will slough down and probably cover some of the armoring.
ALLAN CONNELL: That sand is not going into the Sound. That
sand is staying on the. . . . (skipped)
TRUSTEE. GARRELL: . . . .working toward a solution.. and this may
be only the first step.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I have a question for Mr. Costello. Why can' t
this be built at the toe of the bluff. We recommend that all
the bulkheads be built at the toe of the bluff.
MR. COSTELLO. It is being. . . . (skipped) because the increased
elevation. We're trying to get it away from the Sound.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: The reason that Al is saying that. is 'that. on
the diagram there' s a considerable distance between what you've
identified as toe of bluff and. . . . .
MR. COSTELLO: It' s so steep.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: On the next one it shows right along the toe.
MR. COSTELLO: That scale looking down on something, the line is
almost intersect. You can't get that to. scale. Because if the
cliff was straight vertical all the lines would be one one.
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : The cross section shows the toe.
MR. COSTELLO: That is the detail.. One of the reasons that that
is, is because it gives you more detail for the simple reason is
we' re gonna try .to minimize the amount of fill that you bring
into the location. And we' re trying to get away from the
Sound. We don' t want to stop the waves, we just want to hold
the cliff from eroding.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: My question also is, why can' t you reshape the
bluff after the structure is built?
MR. COSTELLO: There' s too much vegetation. And. we'd rather
not, only because if you stop this toe, you will find as these
photographs indicate, the areas are sliding, and you will see
what that is gonna to do, is arrest some of the sliding.
Whether it is gonna arrest it all, who knows. The trees that
are in these photographs, laying at the base of the cliff,
that' s erosion. You can see that the top one, this tree here,
(indicating from pictures) , is going to come down.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We were there a couple of times. Any other
comment?
TOM SAMUELS: We did an EAS for a bridge in Westhampton. . . .
(skipped) . . .the Public Works forever. ( Changed defective tape)
Now with the onset of. global warming and so on and this
considerable conjecture about it, if you have been reading the
Times lately, objects to the computer modeling that they are
using, and that it doesn.' t. take. into effect cloud formation etc,
etc, . They haven' t found the secret to that yet. I'm not just
talking about just Goldsmith' s Inlet. Because that' s been going
on in this town for 25 years. And every time we bring in an
application bef.ore you for Sound front. protection, we go through
this same discussion again. Now the point that he makes is a
good point in that the bluffs no longer nourish the beach to the
extent that they did. But you've got to look at the property
owner, who is by no means obliged to give his property for
public benefit to the beach. I for one have seen so many
storms., see so much on shore drift after the storms of the very
material that came off the bluff and then is brought back in the
Spring. Every where you go, on all these properties. And I'm
talking about down drift of the Mattituck Inlet, Bailey' s Beach
area. That beach is all recovered. This 1992 storm, to a large
extent. Now will it ever assume what it was before, no. Long
Island is a sand bar. In geologic time it won' t exist. It
sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean. It will not exist. It' s
been nibbled at the sides all the way. However, municipalities
in their wisdom have granted. building permits and sold
property. In point of fact the. Trustees sold property to people
to build on the Sound. Our Trustees, our original. government.
Who at one time owned most of the land. So the point I 'm making
is, and I hate to do this again to you guys, because I know
where your interests lie, and I know we' re trying to mitigate
the effects of shore hardening. John, just stated an example of
that. Their gonna mitigate with rock armor. At great
expense. And. it does absorb wave energy. And it doesn' t allow
for much reflected energy to scour the beach. It works.
Because things work, it would seem to be the way to go. We've
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covered bulkheads with sand, as John, you know. One gentleman
spent $35,000 covering a bulkhead. One northeaster. In the
meantime, we've got two working sand pits in eastern L.I. One
in Quogue, and one in Bridgehampton. Life expectancy,
limited. A precious product. What are gonna do when it' s
gone? Can we afford to put it in Long Island Sound? In time if
there is enough public interest, there will be off shore
dredging projects as there are in the U.K. Great Britain,
Germany, shores of France. The only solution, is it
environmentally correct? I don' t know.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: we had that discussion also.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: At Goldsmith' s Inlet discussion, it was on
that.
MR. SAMUELS: There' s a. prime area where you could use. it. By
pass Mattituck Inlet. You've got to have Mattituck Inlet. But
there are the solutions. But to burden property owners, trying
to make safe their own property with solutions that are
essentially beyond their means and that they have to give up
their land to me doesn't make sense. Thank you for your time.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Any other comment?
TRUSTEE GARRELL: I think Tom, that that was very well taken and
we spent. two days working that over. I'm sorry you missed that
symposium. I must say, that the point stressed over and over
again is that the things like beach nourishment and the bluff
erosion nourishing the beaches, that' s a long term, rather small
scale process. Whereas, the storms which become more violent
and more frequent. Even if you do ,look at global warming, and
even if you don't, look at just what' s happened on near term.
Those storms are violent dramatic effects and they overwhelm the
erosion process. So then your faced with which way you go and
the only way to look at it now even for the Dept. of State & DEC
people, is try to protect the property owner too. People are
constantly re-thinking their techniques. and ways and we went
through that last week.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Do I have a motion to close the hearing?
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL.: So moved.
TRUSTEM KING: Second. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Do I have a motion on the application?
TRUSTEE KING: I' ll make motion to approve the application of
Ciaputa.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Second. ALL AYES
9. - In the matter of Costello Marine on behalf of LUCIEN
ARCAS requests a Wetland & coastal Erosion Permit to install a
total of 200+/- ' of timber bulkhead in line with proposed
bulkhead of Ciaputa ( 110' west & 95 ' east of Ciaputa) a 14'
return and a 16' return armored with rock revetment, and 300
c.y. of clean fill. Located: Soundview Ave. , Southold. SCTM
#50-2-6 & 8
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there anyone here who would like to make
comments on that project that were not made before?
MR. COSTELLO: Ditto.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Motion to close the hearing?
TRUSTEE GARRELL: So moved.
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ALL AN CONNELL: CAC ditto.
TRUSTEE KING.: Second. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE CARRELL: Motion to approve.
TRUSTEE KING: ALL AYES
10 . - In the matter of ARNOLD NEUER requests Wetland Permit to
clear 22' ROW for access to his property. Located: Mill Path
Road, Southold. SCTM #56-4-16
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Anyone here to speak either in favor or
against the application?
MR. NEVER: We need to the- State Environmental Dept. and the
site and I was instructed to plant some plants- and he tried to
call Jill and I don' t know if he got through. He said the wood
that was kind of put over into Mr. Auricchio' s property has
been cut by hand and we can take it away with a dumpster with
the wrecked auto parts there. One other thing he said Mr.
Auricchio said he would like to chain across the road to
prevent people from dumping garbage there. It' s OK with me if
he wants to put a lock on it. In- driving here I started
thinking that if it is. OK with the Trustees.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: To lock it?
MR. NEVER: To chain across and lock it.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I don't think that' s even jurisdictional. He
said it's about 80' from the main road. He wants to put it
across. Mill Pond Road.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Somewhere by the building? Come show us.
MR. AURICCHIO: The way he resolved it was, I don't know if he
told you the whole story is. Was. not to give him a permit to do
anything to restore it, and it was suggested to plant these
things called ground bushes? Every 10' . A high tide bush along
the line there. And then we' re gonna. put a gate across here,
at this point ( indicating on survey) back about 801 . Just so no
one can go around it, this is private property. It is not a
road, it' s a path. And it' s privately owned and only for people
who have property back there. So I ' ll put a lock. on it and no
trespassing in it. And' put a sign on it, anybody wants
information call me. It' s my land. You got a right of way but
you know, you have a key, but anyone else has got to talk to me.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: For. the gate ask us in a letter requesting a
Waiver to put up a gate there because it' s probably within our
jurisdiction there.
TRUSTEE GARRRELL: The other people who have need to access their
property through that right of way can get keys to get through..
MR. AURICCHIO: There are only two people. I' ll put a sign on
there and put my phone number and if they want a key. . . . .
TRUSTEE CARRELL: It sounds like you guys are. working together.
MR. NEVER: We try.
MR. AURICCHIO: Did you tell them to hold the Resolution of
Mr. Chiarella. He' s gonna call Diane.
MR. NEUER.: I tried but it was 4:30 p.m.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Was there anything else?
MR. AURICCHIO: The: bushes along there., the. gate, clean up all
the mess he made there when he encroached, by hand. There are
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no permits. I 'm not giving any permission to clear anything
else. He' s got to restore it. It' s cleared..
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: But the problem is what we have on the agenda
here is to clear the path. What we. . . . . .
MR. NEUER: There' s just one little thing I just. want to show
you. It' s not on his property. My wife has. a road that' s 22'
long. That' s to stay. The driver went kind of against the
fence and you could see the property where the house is and. you
could stones and grass and he kind of followed the fence. He
knocked these trees down because its on the 22' but he
didn' t. . . . .This shows the house on the front. So he said this.
will. fill in naturally with grass and we're gonna plant the
other bushes. On my side of the property we just want to fill
in and he gave me an application. This was on a heavy rain and
high tide and I said that fills up with water and originally we
took some dirt out and let it dry and he said put a permit in
and you fill that in.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Basically what I 'd like to do is deny your
request to clear the right of way because that' s what we have.
we have the application to clear the right of way. So if I
denied your request then we can ask you to follow what the DEC
said, to restore it and then. . . . . .we want to make it as painless
as possible, make it clear.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: What we' re gonna do is deny his
application. and he restore it as -per DEC specifications.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Any other comment? I' ll take a motion to
close the hearing.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: So moved.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Second. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I' ll make a motion to deny the application to
clear the property and to instruct the applicant to follow the
DEC recommendations for restoring the damaged area.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
11. - In the matter ,of KATHLEEN RIBARICH requests a Wetland
Permit for an existing dock measuring as follows: platform 419"
X 61111, ramp 2' 11" X 14 ' and 3 floating docks measuring 2012" X
4' ll" , 6' X 9' 10" , and 6 ' X 16,' . Located: 2295 Wells Ave. ,
Southold betw. LILCO pole #12 & 13 . SCTM ##70-4-20
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there anyone here who would like to speak
either in favor or against this application?
MS. RIBARICH: I 'm here to answer any questions you might have.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: I saw it and had no problem with it.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI.: Motion to close the hearing?
TRUSTEE GARRELL: So moved.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE GARRELL: I move to approve this application.
TRUSTEE. HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
12. - In the matter of Proper-T Services on behalf of DAVID Mc
ELROY requests a Wetland Permit to construct a platform 3 ' X
10 ' , steps 3 ' X9 ' , a fixed dock 3' X 60' , a ramp 3 ' X 16 ' , a
float 6 ' X 20 ' with 2- 2-pile dolphins., a 3 ' X 108 ' walkway and
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a 99 s.f . gazebo. Located: 2565 Long Creek Drive, Southold.
SCTM #52-8-2
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Anyone here who would like to speak in favor
of the application?
MR. FITZGERALD: Nothing to add as usual other than what you
have in front of you.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Can I ask you a question?
MR. FITZGERALD: Yes.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: This is a 3 ' X 60' walkway, right? Where does
it start? At the base of the steps? It wasn' t clear from the
drawing.
MR. FITZGERALD: It starts at the bottom of the steps.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: So it' s about 25' into the creek.
MR. FITZGERALD: This is to scale, so. . . . .
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I went down there and did some soundings. I
had 30' from the base of the bluff there where the steps end to
the edge of the spartina. The seaward edge. So it' s another
30 ' to where the ramp starts. I got slightly different
soundings than you got. I went down there yesterday, about 2: 30
p.m. which if you look in the book is about 1/2 hour before low
water and the full moon is this weekend but the high tides are
after the full moon so it was a little bit, it was almost
average tide but maybe a little bit more than average tide. I
took soundings every ten feet and when I was there the water low
water was just about the edge of the spartina there. So 10 '
beyond the edge of .the spartina I have 1' 201 , I had 2' at 30'
I had 314" . How big is the ramp. The ramp is 14?
MR. FITZGER.ALD: 16 feet.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: A little beyond halfway down the ramp I had 5 '
of water. I waded out with a tape. . . . .it drops off pretty
roughly there. So I was wondering if it needed to be that long.
MR. FITZGERALD: Certainly not if there is 5 ' of water halfway
out the ramp.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Could we make it like an "L"? It would seem
to give you about 41 .
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: 3 ' at least. Maybe we could shorten the
walkway a little bit.
MR. FITZGERALD: Yes, we could shorten the walkway.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: How much would you suggest? . Let' s get into
the numbers here.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Well, at least 10 ' I would say. If you put
the end of the walkway at. . . . . . .10' or so. I think there would be
plenty of water.
MR. FITZGERALD: Could we include in the wording of the permit
beside all the dimensions and then finish up with "as necessary
to obtain 3 ' of water at low water`?
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Apparently your low water is a little.
different than mine.
MR. FITZGERALD: I 'm a little bit concerned by visually
measuring things from the edge of the spartina and like that.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I started at the base of the bluff.
MR. FITZGERALD: Well, let' s start at he base of the bluff .
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TRUSTEE WENCZEL: At the base of the bluff I would say, if you
went. . . .the walkway 40' and then a 16' ramp and a 6 ' X 20 '
float. . . .
MR. FITZGERALD: So now your suggesting that we shorten the
walkway by 20")
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: That would be my initial suggestion, yes. And
that' s actually much larger than exists in that area. How big a
boat are they gonna put on this?
MR. FITZGERALD: I don' t know.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: They can' t get under the bridge.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: That would be my suggestion. If that' s not
possible we can take a look at it in the field and meet you down
there sometime and do it again.
MR. FITZGER.ALD: My concern is with getting 3 ' of water.
Because that seems to be kind of standard figure. And if we're
gonna do that with a 40 ' dock, that' s fine. On the other
hand, I don' t want to stand here agreeing to a 40' dock and
then. . . . .
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I understand. I'm not sure that this Board
sees 3 ' as the. . . . .well I shouldn' t speak for the rest of the
Board.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: I think. that in this case 3 ' is a
reasonable. . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Because a short can reach 31 .
MR. -FITZGERALD: The magic is not the length. Physically the
length of the walkway where—how deep the water is at the end
of the dock.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL.: What do you need 3 ' of water for?
MR. FITZGERALD: How many feet do we need?
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Two would 'be adequate. For an outboard.
MR. FITZGERALD: Why two?
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Because that. would be enough to be able to put
the motor down at low tide and back away from the dock.
MR. FITZGERALD: Does everybody agree that two feet of water. . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI.: I agree in this area because your constrained
by the railroad bridge. And they're not gonna be bringing in
the Queen Mary here. It' s impossible. They don't have
delusions of dredging or doing anything else to get a big boat
in. They' re pretty much limited by the L.I. railroad. In this
case I` don' t know what they' re thinking but they' re limited.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: The other' point I would make is that even with
a 40 ' walkway and 16 ' ramp and a 20 ' float- it would be the
largest dock in the area. It would be larger than anything that
is pre-existing.
MR. FITZGERALD: One of the docks is always gonna be the
largest in the area.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: But my point is that it's always been a policy
of this Board to try and keep things relatively the same size.
TRUSTER KRUPSKI: Right, to be consistent with the area. The
largest dock doesn' t always have to be the newest one. I've got
a •couple of questions. One is I've got a FAX from Jeannette
here.
CLERK: This is from Paul Caminiti' s Office. He was talking
about Covenants and Restrictions..
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Dr. & Mrs. Slatkin or someone is
representing them on behalf of the application for a dock and
gazebo. Oh, Mr. & Mrs. Slatkin are here. We have your letter
from an Attorney. It says, (Al reads letter) (see letter
attached) . It is our Board' s policy and this comes- up
occasionally that something is requested which is not allowed by
the C & R' s on a deed. We've been advised legally that we may
approve these, because it says here, not that we are gonna
approve this one, but we may approve these. sort of things. It
says prior written consent can be obtained,. is ,that correct? So
the applicant can obtain written consent from some Bayview
Lane Corporation in order to construct this. So -basically it' s
not our job to interpret C & R' s of a property. If we can go
through here an we can approve that, so say we approve' this
tonight, he still can' t build it if it' s counter to his C &
R' s. He still can' t, even with our approval, means nothing to
the C & R' s in his deed. It just means nothing. If he goes
back to the Bayview Lane Corporation and says, "look, I 'd like
to build a gazebo" , and they say, "O.K." He' d still have to
come to us for approval, anyway. It' s two separate distinct
entities. If we grant our approval doesn' t mean he can
automatically do it and throw these out the window.
DR. SLATKIN: I understand, I just want to come here with my
wife on our behalf and bring to your. attention we have written
on our own behalf a letter to the Board of Trustees objecting to
the gazebo. We also brought to the Board' s attention the
existence of this covenant. Our objection is not based on the
existence of the covenant. Our objections are based on the fact
that this is an obtrusion on our view. And may I put
photographs of our view into the record?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Please do.
DR. SLATKIN: Thank you. Here' s a photograph of the zone in
which the gazebo is asked to be constructed. It is asked to be
constructed on this point (indicating on photograph) . It is
taken from our property where we like to walk and look around at
nature across this salt water marsh of which we are part owners
and Mr. Mc Elroy is part owner here. This is a picture I
have taken as soon as we received the notice of such a hearing.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Can you please put a brief description on the
back as far as your view, looking north. Just . so that we just
see a picture.
DR. SLATKIN: And here is virtually, you can identify the same
trees, this tree over here (indicating on photo) was taken last
winter. These couple' of trees are the same as these couple of
trees. A winter view that we took of the Mc Elroy' s
property shortly the property and the. house was built and
shortly after Mr. Mc Elroy moved in. The tracks are from
Mr. Mc Elroy' s ATV that he drove several times across the
marsh. And his. description of the property as being
undisturbed, that is not a fact. Mr. Mc Elroy .has
substantially disturbed the property.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: We were concerned about the tire tracks too.
DR. SLATKIN: We feel that Mr. Mc Elroy, not only his
Jgazebo will be an obtrusion on our winter view keeping in mind.
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that we have a one story property and he has a large two story
property. His view is down. his gazebo will not be nearly. as
much of an obtrusion on his view, as his gazebo will be on our
view because we are looking at it this way ( indicating on photo)
he' s looking at it from a great big height.. We feel there will
be more people there and more noise. I believe he has legally
cut down large underbrush up to a certain height, perhaps 2-0 '
but that has. . . . . .but this gazebo will further make less likely
that wild animals will be coming into this marsh.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Do you have a visual easement on your
property by any chance?
DR. SLATKIN: I don' t know what that means.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: It means that you have the right to a view
unobstructed.
DR. SLATKIN: I 've never been told so.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Some people do the property and it comes
with visual easements.
DR. SLATKIN: When we bought our property we were under the
impression there was water front property and we'd be able to
have a nice view of the marsh and the trees. It never occurred
to us that our neighbor would want to build that would be an
obstruction of view.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: It happens all the time in Southold Town and
this is,, your case, very similar to 6 cases that we've had here
in the last three years. It's unfortunate but this Board really
can' t deal with problems like that. What we can deal with is
dock sizing, a 100' walkway over wetlands and. . . .didn' t we
decide the walkway was. . . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I think this walkway was denied by a previous
Board.
TRUSTEE GARRETLL.: The 3 ' X 108 ' walkway is. . . ...the property.
owner, Mc Elroy, has access around that corner to his dock
and ramp, so we felt. there was no reason for a walkway.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: This came up previously.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: The previous owner asked for the same
application and was denied.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We denied it because we felt it was just
unnecessary construction over what is pretty nice standard
spartina. He has upland access and. . .
MR. FITZGERALD: (said something, but could not hear it)
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Yeah, but he does and if he doesn' t do it with
an ATV. . . . .
MR. FITZGERALD: Your not punishing him for having an ATV are
you. ?
TRUSTEE GARREL : Oh no.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: We are concerned about the tracks in the
middle of the marsh.
DR. SLATKIN: Mr. Mc Elroy continues to allow the ATV to
be driven around the marsh. I 'm his neighbor, sir, so I know.
MR. FITZGERALD: I understand, and I apologize for not being
able to keep Mr. Mc Elroy off his ATV.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: No, it' s a problem when he' s. . . . . .take a look
at the picture.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: It' s well worth it. . We saw the same thing.
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well we 'didn' t see that dramatically.
MR. FITZGERALD: What is in the picture?
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: The winter picture:
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: I mean, that' s a problem.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: When we were down inspecting, you could see
that it had been used recently. We' re just saying we had a
problem with that walkway across that part. We didn' t see the
necessity for it.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : And we should have something on record. I
don't see it in the file.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I'm sure. we can find it.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: But they had asked for that same walkway
across that same wetland and it was denied a year. ago.
DR. SLATKIN: We' re just coming here to make representation on
behalf of the gazebo. We wrote a letter to the Board in which
we stated that we have no objection to the walkway.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: But we have. It' s just that this has come up
in the past. Do your know who owned the house before Mc
Elroy?
MRS. SLATKIN: No, he had the house built himself.
ALLAN CONNELL: He claimed he built that house.
,TRUSTEE WENCZEL.: Yeah, that's a new house.
DR. SLATKIN: You may be confusing it with our application for
a short . 30' walkway across our part of the marsh which was
denied. And. that denial was accepted by us.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Oh, that explains it.
DR. SLATKIN: In fact that it was not denied, but the Board
told us if we wanted to proceed with it further we should make
further applications and so forth, but we withdrew and decided
not to proceed.
TRUSTEE. KRUPSKI: And you put a split rail fence up.
DR. SLATKIN: Yes.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Now that we have established that. . . . .
MR. FITZGERALD: Many of the things that come before this Board
are not necessary. . . . . .the dock is not necessary. Not mine, but
Mr. Mc Elroy's, not anybody' s. Unless your a Bayman, and
make a 'living. A dock is nice to have. Gazebos may be nice to
have to some person, and terrible to have for other people. In
using the phrase, "it' s not necessary" , as a reason for denying
an application for a particular structure, it seems to obviate
the necessity for the homeowner to make a decision on what he or
she would like and what would be nice and what is aesthetic and
what would improve the enjoyment, quiet enjoyment as we say of
the property. That' s all.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: That' s a good point and well taken.
DR. SLATKIN: We also have a right to require enjoyment of our
property and part of our enjoyment is when we go down to our
property and look across the marsh we do not necessarily want a
congregation of our neighbors and his relatives out there on his
gazebo. We want a normal, what is normally done. in. this area.
People to walk along but they do not normally build structures
and gather right on the property that we were led to believe
when we bought our property was going to be more or less left in
a natural state.
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TRUSTEE GARRELL: The sad thing, as we pointed out to people is
that there is only one way to deal with that in a Town like this
is to buy that. property. So that it' s yours and somebody else
can' t come in and make plans for it. You never can count on
that nice view and that other property being there in perpetuity.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: It' s a fine line between saying, "people are
going to congregate around a gazebo or put a couple of picnic.
tables and umbrella there which would need a permit and they' ll
congregate there anyway..
-DR. SLATKIN: But we were led to believe that land that has on
one side a Bay and the other side a salt marsh, a narrow slip of
land which was supposed to be left, and I don' t know what the
terminology was there. . . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Undisturbed?
MR. FITZGERALD: Pristine.
DR. SLATKIN: In Mr. Mc Elroy' s application on his map he
has a term there. I don't see how the Town Board can consider
the construction of 99 ' square gazebo compatible with the term
undisturbed land.
MR. FITZGERALD: That was the undisturbed word added by the
surveyor probably as a requirement for either' the DEC
or. . . . . (too many people talking at once)
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: The Board required a 50 ' undisturbed buffer
zone between the house and the wetlands and I don' t think we
extended that to the. . . . .the intent of. the Board then was to
limit the disturbance between the wetlands and the house giving
no thought to the area of disturbance on that point of land
because we didn' t think the house would have any disturbance.
But your point is well taken also. Getting back to Mr.
Fitzgerald here, I admt. that is sort of vague when I say not
necessary. what I should have said is that as an alternative to
that ,disturbance and that disturbance of a catwalk across that
wetlands goes against the standards set forth in Chapter 97.28 A
adversely affect the wetlands of the Town.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: You've got the alternative access to that
strip and that' s the whole point. In many cases somebody who
wants to access a creek front or a Bayment has no choice but
to go across wetlands. But Mt. Mc Elroy is fortunate in
having a way around. That' s the case that. makes this one
singular.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Mr. Mc Elroy also has two jet skiis
dragged up on the inter-tidal area. I 'm assuming they' re his.
Which is not acceptable. The ATV is, we consider, to be
serious, because he' s doing serious damage there.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: My own personal concerns are, one is the
walkway across our marsh. I have some negative feelings on
that. I think that will have to be removed from the application
if you want to move forward tonight. Secondly, the size of the
dock can be reduced to a length in which he will have 2' of
water at low tide. And that is something that we can put in
that way.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: I think that' s a mistake. I think what we
ought to do is permit a walkway that would give him length.
Board of Trustees 35 June 27, 1996
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: As long as .it' s that length and if you find
out when you build it it isn' t sufficient you can come. back.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: No, don't find out when you build it. Check
first, build later. Find out from a dock builder, go out that
many feet and if you have to come in for an amendment. . . :
MR. FITZGERALD: The third we' ll make it 40' for the purposes. of
expediting the issue into the permit. and if it turns out that
that' s a problem we'll be back.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: The third thing is whether there is
contention as. to the gazebo. My own feeling on the gazebo is
that. this is the man' s property and if he wants to put a picnic
table or a gazebo out there he is allowed to do that. It' s ,
against the C & R's of the property owners than the property
owners have to go after him and stopping them.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: They shouldn't have to go after him. He
should have to seek relief from the C & R' s before you can do
it.
TRUSTEE. KING: :That' s a touchy thing. Because if you put it up
and get away with it, they can' t make you take it down. Even
though it' s against the violation.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Does he need a building permit?
MR. FITZGERALD: You would certainly have to get a building
permit.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Now, can the Building Dept. approve it.)
ALLAN CONNELL: The Building Dept. won't take issue in C & R' s.
It' s a private entity. The Building Dept. nor the Town will not
enforce the issue.
DR. SLATKIN: So does this mean that we. have legal document
registered with the County of Suffolk and that the only relief
we have is to take civil action against Mr. Mc Elroy to
prevent him from violating this covenant?
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Yes. .
TRUSTEE RING: Is there like a property owners association there?
DR. SLATKIN: It' s mentioned in here but, the actual
association has never been formed.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We operate under the Andros Patent of 1676
in ,the Town Code Chapter 97 which doesn't include any private
development C & R's.
DR. SLATKIN: But Mr. Mc Eloy has already received a
letter from our attorney notifying him of the existance of
this.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: That was. after his application.
DR. SLATKIN: Right.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: So maybe he realizes it can't happen.
DR. SLATKIN: So .we have to take immediate action and get a
court order and stop him from building the gazebo.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Yes.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: So, Jim (referring to Jim Fitzgerald) ,
I' ll just throw that out and is that a. reasonable way to proceed
with the application as far as you and your client are concerned.?
MR. FITZGER.ALD: Yes.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there any other comment?
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Move to close the hearing.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
\ Board of Trustees 3 6 . June 27 , 1996
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: I' ll make a motion to approve the
application for a platform 3 ' X 10 ' , steps 3 ' X 9 ' , fixed dock
that will extend 40 ' , a ramp 3 ' X 16' and a float 6 ' X 20' and
2- 2 pile dolphins and a 99 s.f gazebo.
TRUSTEE ,KRUPSKI: Before we vote on this there's an awful lot of
disturbance in that' area as far as soil movement and what not
around the house. Unfortunately when we were out on field
inspection we didn't measure from the house. From looking at
this it seems they pushed well beyond that- no disturbance sign.
MR. FITZGERALD: The haybales were still there, were they not?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Haybales are in a contiguous line now. ' Cause.
what I'm suggesting is something that we've done in the past, is
have them do something permanent at that 50 ' line. Because it
seems like they've got a problem with encroachment there.
Something should be done to help them control themselves as far
as ,complying with their permit.
TRUSTEE GARIELL: A non-turf buffer, plantings?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well you could see it was all dug up. See, we
didn' t measure, and we're at a disadvantage because. . . . . .so it' s
impossible for me to say. . . .
MR. FITZGERALD: Measure what Al?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: From the house—It' s impossible for me to
say, "oh, yeah it' s one little corner they have to turn around
there or something and it wasn' t a big deal" . As f ar as I know
it could be right here. So I'm gonna say that this staked
row. . . .
MR, FITZGERALD: So your concerned about the 50' buffer zone.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Yes. From here I can' t tell. I'd like to add
onto that before we vote that a staked row of haybales be• put in
place at the 50' area until th.at. 50' area can be stailized
with natural plantings with no turf vegetation.
MR. FITZGERALD: Is that what -the original permit says?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: The permit shouldn't be. . . . .there shouldn' t be
any disturbance there. What I don' t want to do is table this
for next months meeting. So I'd rather say have they put the
haybales in place_
MR. FITZGERALD: No, what I'm asking is is this a new
requirement or re-affirmation of. . . . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: (reads from file) As proposed, there shall be
no construction, clearing, or grading located within 75' of the
area of tidal wetlands. Now that' s just a letter from J.M.O.
Consulting. What was actually permitted out. . . . . .Oh, here, we
have a staked row of haybales at 751 . But clearly that hasn't
been maintained.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: There should have been haybales at 751 • and
no disturbance 50' , 25 ' inside, the haybales for sure. That
doesn' t appear to be the case. Now do we send the Bay Constable
down.
MRS. SLATKIN: Does no disturbance include not cutting down
the underbrush along the perimeter.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Generally. that underbrush is not included
in. . . .see the no disturbance zone is not. . . .it' s not made clear
on this survey that the no disturbance zone didn't include that
slit of land there. The no disturbance zone was specifically
Board of Trustees 37 June 27, 1996
stated between the wetlands and the house construction. I just
found a letter here. "The above referenced property was
inspected in the proposed single family dwelling is out of the
Trustees jurisdiction. The staked row of haybales should be
placed at .the 75 ' line and no activity shall take place- seaward
of that line as per map dated 5/30/95. So we- definitely have a
violation-.
DR. SLATKIN: The gazebo would also be seaward. of that line.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: No, they're applying for that. There's a
difference between them saying they' re not gonna have any
disturbance between there and. going in and doing it. And I ask
the rest of the Board, is there a violation there?
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Yes.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Sounds like it.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: That' s a separate issue. I think this
application is something different. Now do we want to hold this
application up because there is a violation or. . . .
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: It' s sort of unrelated. Diane, please send
the Bay Constable out and give him this map and there' s a letter
here. Show him this.
MRS. SLATKIN: I guess we should tell you that we already
called the Bay Constable about the ATV in the marsh.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: When 'did you do that, may we ask?
MRS. SLATKIN: That was last December.
TRUSTEE. KRUPSKI: And what did. he say?
MRS. SLATKIN: He said he would pay them a visit and warn them
not to use their ATV..
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Diane, could you ask for a copy of the
report.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: There' s been a lot of, and I'm sure it' s not
just the Mc Elroys., but there' s been a lot of ATV activity
in that area. There was somebody riding up and down the marshes
all winter and a number of us pointed it out.
DR. SLATKIN: There' s just one ATV activity in our area.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Well this would be on the other part of the
creek.
DR. SLATKIN: Well this one belongs to Mr. Mc Elroy and is
riden by Mr. . Mc Elroy and his family.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: We have a motion and we have a second. ALL
AYES.
13 . - In the matter of Bill Kelly on behalf of ROBERT &
CHRISTA BROWN requests a Wetland Permit to construct a 1,800
s.f. building with 18 gravel parking spaces. and sanitary
system. Located: Route. 25, Greenport, north side of road.
SCTM #45-4-6.1
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Is there anyone here who would like to speak
in favor of the application.
MR. KELLY. It' s pretty straight forward what we have to do up
there. We went to the Planning Board, the Board of Health, the
DEC, DOT.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Any Board comment?
TRUSTEE GARRELL.: Move to close the hearing.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
Board of Trustees 38 June 27, 1996 Ll
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Move to approve.
TRUSTEE KING: Second. ALL AYES
14. - In the matter of J.M.O. Consulting on behalf of WILLIAM
PYMM requests a Wetland Permit to reconstruct inkind/inplace
150 ' of timber groin and to construct a 50 ' timber groin in the
same location as 50 ' deteriorated groin. Located: ROW off
Reeve Ave. , Mattituck. SCTM. #122-9-7 . 9
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: This is an application that- is no stranger to
this Board. CAC recommends disapproval because there is no
demonstrated need. I have to disagree with that. because I don' t
know. . . .I'm not sure what. . . .in a Coastal Erosion sense, I'm not
quite sure what "need". is. What would you build there that you
could say you needed.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: This is the one that maybe they're
questioning, but even when we saw that there was low water, all
this is sand.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well there' s only like 5 posts there. What
this is to prove is that that was in fact funtioning
recently. Because there' s the. house and there' s the pool. And
that house was marginally in our jurisdiction at the time.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: The question is whether this is
non-funtional now.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: It' s non-funtiona . now. I guess what
they' re trying to prove is that. . . . .now June 12, 1996 says at
the present time we are requesting to withdraw predjudice this
application. Oh, they re-applied. There' s a letter here, (see
attached) . Also read letter to Mr. Just, from DEC. ( see
attached) They (DEC) granted them for everthing. Mr. Just' s
letter backf to them must have been very persuasive. (Read
letter to DEC from Mr, Just) . Apparently based on this picture
they have, the State has changed it' s ways.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: And now, if I'm right, this. is almost buried.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI:. No.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: But isn' t the sand up to here? All around
here?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: No. The water washes right through it to the
same level.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : It' s like one inch or two inches of water
though. on this side and this side. That sand bar was all the
way out like this. There was water there.
TRUSTEE. KRUPSKI : There was water half way, and the poles were
in the water and somewhere on the beach.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Is there another one down here?
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: No, that' s it. We stood right here.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: But the sand right up. . . . .this was all
shallow, ankle deep, all this area. It' s filled in up here.
That' s why I said that it doesn' t make any difference whether
they put it there or not because it' s buried almost. It' s not
gonna have any affect on anything.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI : But the poles stick up. The DEC probably
approved the low profile groin. Which would trap sand in there
,like that and hold it there. But as far as how you and I could
disagree. . . . . .
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TRUSTEE GARRELL: One of the problems with remembering that is
that all the time we were engaging in. conversation about the
mudd beach sand groin.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: What they approved here is a 6 ' high jetty.
How could the State hvae approved a. 6' jetty there?
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL Well we' ll just approve a low profile.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: Well what' s a low profile? You'd better have
a new drawing. You'd better get it in black and white. A low
profile, they're gonna. build it and say, "oh, that' s what we
thought". They're gonna say, "well, we built it according to
plans".
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Why don't we approve it tonight the
reconstruction inkind/inplace of 150' and talk to -Glenn about
the 50' and tell him we would approve a low profile.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI: That' s what I .want to see and he' s got the 6'
here.
. TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: That' s there and it' s functioning.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Move to close.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Second. ALL AYES
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI': I' ll make a motion to approve the 150' timber
groin inkind/inplace, and the 50' groin at a low profile with
Board approved plans.
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
15. - In the matter of WILLIAM A. HANDS, JR.' requests a Wetland
& Coastal Erosion Permit to .construct a single family dwelling,
garage, driveway, well and sanitary system as per map dated May
21, 1996. Located: 960 Willow Terrace Lane, Orient. SCTM
#26-2-21
TRUSTEE WENCZEL: Moved to close the hearing.
TRUSTEE GARRELL: Second. all ayes
TRUSTER HOLZAPFEL: There' s no problem except I would recommend
haybales at the seward crest of the hill. I' ll make a motion to
approve.
TRUSTEE KING: Second. ALL AYES.
TRUSTEE WENCZEL. Motion to go back to the regular meetings,
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL: Second. ALL AYES
V. RESOLUTIONS:
1. DAVID WIRTZ requests a Grandfather Permit for a 160'
bulkhead and to replace inkind/inplace 15 rotted pilings.
Located: 246 Pine Place, Gardiners Bay Estates, East Marion.
SCTM #37-4-13
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve, TRUSTEE GARRELL seconded..
ALL AYES
2 . J.M.O. Consulting on behalf of CAROL STANCS requests a
Grandfather Permit to reconstruct inkind/inplace 100 ' of timber
bulkhead and backfill structure. with 10 c.y. of clean fill
trucked in from -an upland source. Located: 1120 West Lane,
Southold. SCTM #88-6-16
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TRUSTEE WENCZEL moved to approve, TRUSTEE GARRELL seconded. ALL
AYES
3 . Larry Matzen on behalf of GARDINERS BAY ESTATES HOME
OWNERS ASSOC. requests a Grandfather Permit for a 77 ' jetty
and a 368' bulkhead which has been in existence since 1931.
Located: on west end of beach, Orient Harbor, East Marion.
SCTM #37-5-23.2
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve, TRUSTEE KING seconded. ALL
AYES
4. Larry Matzen on behalf of GARDINERS BAY ESTATES HOME
OWNERS ASSOC. requests a Grandfather Permit fora 6' wide
7617" long foot bridge to beach. Located: 14814" from Knoll
Circle to bridge on 10' ROW, East Marion. SCTM #37-5-23 . 2
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve, TRUSTEE KING seconded. ALL
AYES
5 . Larry Matzen on behalf of GARDINERS BAY ESTATES HOME
OWNERS ASSOC. requests a Grandfather Permit for a 516" wide a
5614" long foot bridge to Fox Island. SCTM #37-4-18
TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL moved to approve, TRUSTEE KING seconded. ALL
AYES
VI . MOORINGS•
1. KENNETH ANDERSON requests a mooring for a 17 '
inboard/outboard in Little Creek with a 75 lb. mushroom.
ACCESS: Public. As per Bay Constable.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL seconded.'
ALL AYES
2. EILEEN JOHNSON requests an onshore/offshore stake in
Corey Creek for a 15 ' outboard.. ACCESS: Public. As per Bay
Constable.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL seconded.
ALL AYES
3 . PATRICIA L. OSBORNE requests a mooring in Narrow River
for a 12' sailboat with a 75 lb. mushroom. ACCESS: Public. As
per Bay Constable.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve, TRUSTEE GARRELL seconded. ALL
AYES
4 . EDWARD W. WORTH requests a mooring in Mud Creek for a 25'
outboard with a 100 lb. mushroom. ACCESS: Public. As per .Bay
Constable.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL seconded.
ALL AYES
5 . ROBERT J. VOELKEL JR. , requests a mooring in Mudd Creek
for a 24' sailboat with a 150 lb. mushroom. ACCESS: Private.
As per Bay Constable.
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TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve only if another applicant
Edward Worth turns down the same spot and Bay Constable says
there is room, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL seconded. ALL AYES
6. CHRISTINE GRETSCH requests an onshore/offshore mooring in
East Creek for an 18" outboard. ACCESS: Private. As per Bay
Constable.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL seconded.
ALL AYES
7 . WILLIAM W. JOHNSON requests an onshore/offshore mooring in
Goose Creek for a 17 ' outboard.. ACCESS: Private. As per Bay
Constable.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL. seconded_
ALL AYES.
8. MATT FLYNN requests a mooring in Gull Pond for a 151
outboard with a 75-100 lb. mushroom. ACCESS: Public. Bay
Constables requirement: No more than an 18 ' boat at any time on
mooring.
TRUSTEE KRUPSKI moved to approve, TRUSTEE HOLZAPFEL seconded.
ALL AYES
Meeting adjourned at: 11:00 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted By:
Diane J. Herbert, Clerk