Community Input Sought For Maritime Trail Park Design On Peconic

RIVERSIDE, NY — Community members now have the chance to weigh in on the design of the planned Riverside Maritime Trail Park along the Peconic River.

The Riverside/Flanders community is invited to participate in the initial design phase of the park during the next Flanders, Riverside, and Northampton Community Association meeting, to be held September 10 at 7 p.m. at the Crohan Community Center, located at 655 Flanders Road in Flanders.

The Riverside Maritime Trail Park and wetland restoration project is planned for a 14-acre Suffolk County Park parcel; Araiys Design, landscape architects hired by Southampton Town, will meet with community members to review possible design features to be incorporated into the park, town officials said.

“This is a chance for the community to weigh in and give their ideas and visions to the consultants to help them design what’s appropriate for this area,” said Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman.

The design group will return to the community on Oct. 16 with a rough draft of what the ideas from the charrette process look like; that meeting is also scheduled for the Crohan Center at 6 p.m., officials said. At that point in the process, the community will have further input into the final design phase.

The architects will then present their plan, with 90 percent of the design phase completed, to the Southampton town board during a work session scheduled for Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. at the Crohan Center; town board members and members of the community will still get a chance to tweak some of the ideas before the final plan is approved and the project moves into the bidding process and construction phase, town officials said.

Patch photo by Lisa Finn.