The Heritage at Cutchogue, a 124-unit, 55-and-over housing development proposed for a 46.17-acre site in the hamlet of Cutchogue, will move to a public hearing on Monday, Jan. 11.
The Southold Town Planning Board today accepted the developer’s draft environmental impact statement as adequate for public review and scheduled a public hearing to gather comments on the DEIS and site plan for the board’s next regular meeting on Jan. 11. The vote was unanimous. Town planners sent developer Jeffrey Rimland back to the drawing board in September, when it found the DEIS inadequate for public review ans asked for revisions to address shortcomings in the analysis presented in the DEIS.
Their finding today that the document is complete for the purposes of public comment paved the way for a hearing next month.
The proposed development consists of 124 detached and attached dwellings — reduced from 139 in the settlement of a five-year lawsuit between the town and the developer reached in September 2014 — with a 6,188-square-foot community center, an outdoor swimming pool,a tennis court and 284 parking spaces.
The currently vacant site, located on the northwest corner of Schoolhouse Road and Griffing Street, in the Hamlet Density zoning use district.
The project was first proposed a decade ago and was immediately controversial. Issues of concern to the community include overall density, traffic impacts, sewage treatment and groundwater and surface water impacts.
