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East Hampton village updates comprehensive plan but sewer project stalled after DEC denial; parking and building-permit backlogs persist
Summary
Mayor Jerry Larson said the village's comprehensive plan update is nearly complete, a proposed septic system under a train-station parking lot was denied by the DEC (acronym not expanded in the interview), and the village faces parking constraints and a town building-department backlog tied to CO requirements.
Mayor Jerry Larson told LTV East End News that East Hampton Village's updated comprehensive plan — a 20-year roadmap for housing, traffic and commercial areas — should be completed before summer, and that the village is pursuing limited sites for new housing such as rezoning parts of Railroad Avenue for mixed-use development.
Larson said the village explored an underground septic system beneath a long-term parking lot behind the train station and had an engineer study the plan, but the project was denied by the DEC (the interview uses the acronym "DEC" without expanding it). The mayor said the village needs roughly two acres to build a system elsewhere and has not yet secured suitable land.
On parking, Larson said the old comprehensive plan did not allow parking expansion and the village has very little land for new lots; the village combined two lots behind Herrick Park and recovered about 35 spaces without new land purchases.
Larson also criticized the town's 7% gross-floor-area (GFA) limit for houses and described the village's formula (about 10% plus a fixed square-foot allowance) as more workable; he said he convened homeowners, builders and planners to reach the village formula and would seek a similar stakeholder process at the town level.
The mayor described a building-department backlog in the town created by staffing problems, a suspended employee, and a criminal investigation, and proposed suspending the requirement to obtain an updated certificate of occupancy (CO) while clearing permit backlogs using retired inspectors on a temporary basis. He noted the town had suspended enforcement but not the CO requirement, which he said left a growing pile of required COs and fees in place.
The interview did not include technical plans, DEC appeal details or a town response to the building-department critique.
