Riverside revitalization

Supervisor Tim Hubbard offered Southampton officials Riverhead’s help to revise its Riverside development plans, including partnering on a market and demographic study. He also asked that the proposed Riverside sewer district take in the county facilities there.

Riverhead's Economic Development and Planning Administrator Dawn Thomas called on the Town of Southampton to reopen review of the Riverside Revitalization Action Plan, adopted in 2015.

The $5 million appropriation is targeted for construction of the sewage treatment plant, which will cost an estimated $20 million to build. Covering the cost of construction with grants is crucial, Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said.

The wastewater treatment plant is essential to the implementation of the Riverside Action Plan, a revitalization plan adopted by the Southampton Town Board in 2015 and codified in a zoning overlay district that same year, that calls for high-density mixed-use development in portions of the hamlet.

Local residents again voiced objections — this time at a ZBA hearing Thursday night — to a proposed 7-Eleven gas station and convenience store on the Riverside roundabout, where a blighted, long-abandoned gas station now stands.

Worried about the impacts of a proposed 7-Eleven gas gas station and convenience store on the Riverside Revitalization Action Plan, residents ask the Town of Southampton for a one-year moratorium on new gas stations and related uses in the Riverside hamlet center.

A proposal to build a new gas station and convenience store on the Riverside roundabout met with skepticism from Southampton Planning Board members last week and faces stiff opposition from the Flanders, Riverside and Northampton Community Association.

A virtual public forum on housing in the Flanders, Riverside and Northampton community will take place tomorrow night at 7 p.m.

The future of Riverside hangs in the balance and the owners of one 20-acre parcel the town needs to build the sewage plant critical to the hamlet’s revitalization plan aren’t negotiating, civic leader says.

The owners of the Peconic Paddler site on Peconic Avenue, who plan to eventually build a 100-room hotel there, pitched a two-phase plan to the Riverhead Town Board today, hoping to gain its blessing for a limited sewer district hookup.