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Shelter Island Town Hall (Credit: Tara Smith) Not for the first time, a resident questioned the Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board (CPF) about actions taken at the West Neck Preserve at the corner of Nostrand Parkway and West Neck Road in Silver Beach. Some see it as a senseless clearing of woods to create a parkland or meadows, the opposite of the natural state they’ve come to value. Doug Sherrod, who lives in Silver Beach, told the CPF members at Monday’s meeting he had been accustomed to hiking in the area, which now appears to have been “clear cut” a...
Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board Chairman Gordon Gooding. (Credit: Julie Lane) Correcting misinformation has become a major task of the Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board, which recommends parcels to the Town Board to be purchased and kept from development. The aim of the fund is to retain the rural ambiance of East End towns. Purchases are made with money that comes from a 2% tax paid by property buyers, not from taxes paid by existing residents. That hasn’t stopped people from taking to Facebook, Instagram and other online sites to complain abou...
Ed Shillingburg is stepping down as a member of two town committees. But Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board Chairman Gordon Gooding said at Monday morning’s meeting that it won’t stop him from calling Mr. Shillingburg whenever he needs advice, particularly on stewardship plans for various properties the town acquires to preserve. For the past four years, Mr. Shillingburg, who also has been a member of the Water Quality Improvement Advisory Board, has guided the process of developing many of the plans that ensure proper maintenance of sites aquired by the town for preservation. “...