Brookhaven planning board reviews Riverhead Building Supply site plan, vegetation variances and right‑of‑way wall
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Summary
Planning commissioner Jim Tula summarized several planning‑board items including a site plan for Riverhead Building Supply in the Port Jefferson Station area, requests for clearing‑limit variances in Medford (7 Lorraine Court and another parcel), and a sight‑line issue caused by a wall in Tennessee Court's right‑of‑way.
Jim Tula, planning commissioner for the Town of Brookhaven, told the town board the planning board had multiple items on consent and several public‑hearing matters under review.
Tula described a site plan for Riverhead Building Supply along Pellet Road in Port Jefferson Station as an effort to legalize unpermitted additions to an older industrial building and to convert it into a masonry supply and sales operation. “Being an older building, there were some additions to it that were never permitted,” he said.
The planning board also considered two requests for relief from clearing limits. At 7 Lorraine Court in Medford a property owner requested increasing the clearing limit from 36% to 79%; Tula said the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recommended a 58% limit to align with prior relief granted in that subdivision. On a separate holdover application the owner sought to change a clearing limit from 47% to 69% while DEP recommended 65%, and the property was described in the record as substantially vegetated already.
A resident reported a substantial wall had been built within a highway right‑of‑way on Tennessee Court; Tula said the wall impedes sight lines and that highway staff had issued a highway work permit for aprons only. He said other encroachments — including shrubs — must also comply with apex sight‑line requirements and that the homeowner must work with the highway department and the traffic safety division to resolve the issue.
Tula also described Oak Walker Holdings, a property on the north side of Montauk Highway in East Patchogue adjacent to Mud Creek; planning staff said part of the northern parcel would be dedicated as open space (adjacent to wetlands and wetland buffer) while the southern portion would include a mixed‑use building with ground‑floor office space and two apartments above.
The items were described as planning board matters pending hearings and conditions; the transcript excerpt does not record final town board actions on these planning items.