Civic group files ethics complaint against town planner Jeff Murphree, Riverhead’s building and planning administrator, is currently working as a consultant for a project in Riverside, which is part of Southampton Town. (Credit: Tim Gannon)
The Flanders, Riverside and Northampton Community Association has filed an ethics complaint in Riverhead Town seeking an opinion on Riverhead’s building and planning administrator, who appeared as a consultant before the Southampton Town Planning Board on a project proposed for the Riverside traffic circle.
“We feel that Riverhead’s planning director, Jeff Murphree, has betrayed the public trust by serving as an officer of the town and concurrently serving as a paid planning expert for the developer of the proposed 7-Eleven and mega 12-pump gas station at 9-11 Flanders Road,” FRNCA president Vince Taldone wrote in an email to association members.
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Proposed medical office in Aquebogue can be built as two stories, despite nearby project changing plans A rendering of the proposed medical building in Aquebogue.
The developers of a professional office building proposed in Aquebogue can maintain their plan for a two-story building, despite the Riverhead Town Board previously recommending a similar project located nearby change from two stories to one to maintain the hamlet’s rural character.
Town planning aide Greg Bergman outlined the difference between the projects at Thursday’s work session after board members raised concerns a week earlier about a prior decision in 2019.
“It’s not apples to apples,” he said of the two projects.