Heritage at Cutchogue Public Hearing Takes Place Monday

NORTH FORK, NY-The Southold Town Planning board’s rescheduled meeting, which included a public hearing on the controversial Heritage at Cutchogue application, takes place Monday.

The work session will kick the meetings off at 4 p.m. and the public meeting follows at 6 p.m.

Also scheduled is a public hearing on the Fishers Island subdivisions Ridgeway,as well as the hearing for the Biggane lot line change.

The proposed residential site plan for Heritage at Cutchogue is for the development of 124 detached and attached dwellings, a 6,188 foot community center with an outdoor swimming pool and one tennis court, 284 parking spaces — of which 256 are associated with the residential units and 28, with the community center, on a vacant 46.17 foot parcel in the hamlet density zoning district.

The property is located at 75 Schoolhouse Road, on the northwest corner of Griffing Street and Schoolhouse Road, approximately 1,079 feet north of Main Road in Cutchogue.

For years, the proposal has sparked an outpouring of public protest, with residents crying out agains density and the potential impacts to quality of life in Cutchogue.