April, 2012
Dear Members, Friends, and Neighbors,
Several months ago the Noyac Civic Council doubled its efforts to weigh in on the Town's proposed traffic remediation plan for the Cromer's/Whalebone intersection on Noyac Road. The Town of Southampton reached out to the Noyac Civic Council to attend a Town work session on appropriations for this project on February 10, 2012. As a result of this meeting, it was decided that a Public forum to solicit public input on this project would be held by the Noyac Civic Council.
As part of this process, the Executive Committee set out to get the Noyac community together. We reached this goal by surveying our membership and by having a Public Forum on March 28, 2012, attended by the entire Town Council and other key administrators in the Town of Southampton: Supervisor Throne-Holst; Council persons Fleming, Malone, Nuzzi and Scalera; Deputy Supervisor Frank Zapone; Executive Assistant to the Supervisor Janice Wilson; Deputy Town Attorney Kathleen Murray; and Director of Transportation Tom Neely. Noyac residents, business owners, landlords and neighboring folks who frequently pass this intersection filled the Bridgehampton Community Center beyond capacity.
Tom Neely presented various revisions of the traffic calming plan beginning with the Hamlet Study's 2004 plan through the 2011 plan. Everyone who wanted to address the issue was given a chance to present his opinion. One resident, a retired traffic engineer for NYC, even presented his own plan. The Town representatives were impressed with the overwhelming number of persons in attendance, the variety of their suggestions and the results of our survey: The most important fact that the survey revealed is that 65% of the respondents have some issues with the 2011 plan. Although a broad variety of suggestions were voiced, the overwhelming suggestions were as follows:
* Pare down the plan
* Start with simple traffic calming measures
* Phase in changes
* Slow down the traffic
* Get rid of the large trucks that are not making local deliveries.
The Noyac Civic Council will continue to monitor this local problem. The NCC continues to be the voice of the Noyac community fulfilling its mission of concern for quality of life issues. The participation of NCC members gives us a meaningful influence in Town Hall and in determining, in part, the future of our hamlet.
Our 2012 membership drive I underway. If you have not paid your 2012 dues, please send your renewal to NCC, P.O. Box 2565, Sag Harbor, NY 11963. ($20 for 2012 or $35 for 2012-2013.) If you would like to join the NCC please click on our "Join the NCC" link below, or come to our next meeting, April 17, 7:30 PM at the Old Noyac Schoolhouse, 3010 Noyac Road.
Respectfully submitted,
Elena Loreto
President, NCC
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