Letters

Southampton Town is lucky to have a great supervisor and four excellent council members. It’s too bad that red tape keeps them from getting important projects accomplished. For example: In 1966, I was told a sewage treatment plant is coming to Flanders. That’s 59 years ago. There’s still no STP.

In 2024, we were told Bel-Aire Cove Motel property will become a park, the eyesore, blighted diner and 7Zs Pool will come down, and a sewage treatment plant is coming to downtown Hampton Bays. Nothing has been done.

For many years, and in dozens of meetings, plans to revitalize downtown Hampton Bays have been discussed. We have seen artists’ plans of the new downtown. Nothing has been done to that end.

For about two years, a location for battery energy storage has been discussed and hashed over. A suitable location still has not been picked.

Now the town is buying the Casa Basso property to take down some buildings and to make a park — I mean, another park. But what about the Bel-Aire Cove park?

What do they do all day in Town Hall?

Another project to add to the list: There should be a bike trail on Dune Road from Shinnecock Inlet to Moriches Inlet. This is Southampton Town, and there are no dedicated bike trails. That’s hard to believe.

Jim Dreeben

Hampton Bays