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East Hampton ZBA closes hearing on Cliff Road additions, urges dune restoration
Summary
The Zoning Board closed the Marion La Due hearing seeking a natural resources special permit for 1,083 sq ft of additions, a garage and a new IA sanitary system, and pressed the applicant for a revegetation and restoration plan and proof that a 2008 deed covenant was filed.
The East Hampton Zoning Board of Appeals on April 28 closed the public hearing for an application by Marion La Due to add about 1,083 square feet of first- and second-story additions and a roughly 600 square-foot garage at 83 Cliff Road in Amagansett, a lot that contains dune land and beach vegetation.
The board’s staff and planning department recommended strict restoration conditions after finding that roughly 10,000 square feet of beach vegetation had been cleared on the lot since the prior certificate of occupancy in 2013 and that a 2008 administrative NRSP had imposed a deed covenant prohibiting turf or ornamental plantings. Morgan Sider of the Planning Department told the board the department “feels strongly that the beach vegetation and dune land character be restored to the maximum extent practicable” and recommended a revegetation plan and proof that the 2008 covenant (CNR) was filed with Suffolk County as conditions of approval.
The applicant’s architect described a split-level rear addition and a new garage that will sit forward of the existing pool deck and said a modern IA sanitary system has received preliminary County review. Board members pressed the applicant on grading and how topography and plantings would be restored after excavation for the sanitary system and foundations. Counsel confirmed that required notices and affidavits were on file and that the board had jurisdiction to proceed.
Before closing the record the board asked the applicant to submit an updated survey and a detailed revegetation/restoration methodology for areas not occupied by structures. The board explicitly discussed making submission of proof that the 2008 covenant was filed a condition before permit issuance.
The hearing record was closed by motion; the board did not make a final decision in public at the April 28 meeting and left the submission and any conditions for the board’s determination as the next procedural step.
