The community will have a chance to dialogue directly with the partners in the Sports East Fitness project proposed for Main Road, Mattituck at a public forum on April 25 at 6:30 p.m.
Paul Pawlowski, Joe Slovak and Steve Marsh will be on hand to answer questions at a panel discussion planned by the Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association at the American Legion Hall in Mattituck.
The event comes just a week ahead of a May 2 public hearing on the Sports East Fitness Club site plan.
“This is honoring an important part of our mission statement,” Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association president Mary Eisenstein said, “to inform and educate the community on issues important to the community.”
The forum will provide “the community an opportunity to get all the facts directly from the applicant,” to avoid “rumor and gossip,” Eisenstein said.
County Legislator Al Krupski and Group for the East End executive director Bob DeLuca will also be on hand for the panel discussion and forum.
The developers are seeking a special exception use from the Southold Zoning Board of
Appeals and site plan approval from the Planning Board to build an 82,500-square-foot private sports and fitness facility on a currently vacant 20.8-acre parcel at 9300 Route 25 in Mattituck, about 141 feet west of Sigsbee Road. The site is zoned R80, necessitating the special exception from the ZBA.
Their plans call for a multipurpose turf field and tennis courts outdoors and the construction of a 150- by 500-foot building that would house a pool, tennis courts, a basketball court, multipurpose areas, a fitness room and a second floor that for yoga studios and a members-only cafe.
Community members turned out in force to voice support the proposal at a Feb. 4 ZBA hearing on the special exception use.
Last week, the Planning Board classified the proposal as an “unlisted action” under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. The Planning Board is lead agency for purposes of coordinated review under SEQRA. It must determined whether or not the project may have significant impacts on the environment, which will dictate whether a an environmental impact statement must be prepared.
The applicant has already submitted a full environmental assessment form and a traffic impact study. In the traffic impact study, filed last month, traffic engineers Dunn Engineering state that the project “will not have a significant impact on traffic conditions on the surrounding roadway network in the vicinity of the site.” New traffic generated by the new use can be adequately accommodated by the existing roads, the analysis concluded.
The Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association has not taken a position on the application, Eisenstein said. It does not expect to do so, she said.
The May 2 site plan hearing before the Planning Board is scheduled for 6:03 p.m. at Southold Town Hall.
Pawlowski is also a guest speaker at the Mattituck Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting at Michelangelo’s in Mattituck on Monday, April 18. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. and the cost if $25 per person.
