Board grants stormwater waivers for single‑home project at 50 Crooked Ledge Road

The Southampton Planning Board on Aug. 5 granted waivers and approved a residential stormwater special‑permit application for 50 Crooked Ledge Road, allowing the applicant to proceed without the usual pre/post‑development drainage analysis and inspection/maintenance agreement.

Applicant Pete Lestava told the board he plans a single three‑bedroom house with a two‑car garage on a 5‑acre lot and described erosion‑control measures including roughly 750 feet of silt fence, temporary driveway construction, a proposed infiltration area near the house, and revegetation with native shrubs. "Based on the limited amount of proposed impervious area, the substantial amount of existing woodland that will remain undisturbed and the proposed stormwater management and erosion control measures, I respectfully request that the planning board grant a waiver of the pre and post development drainage analysis requirements and inspection and maintenance agreement," he said.

Board members noted a clerical error in the public notice that cited an older section of the stormwater bylaw; the chair said the mistake was not the applicant’s fault and members agreed to consider the substance of the application. Several members said a peer review is typically reserved for larger or commercial projects and that the plans and the engineer's stamp made a peer review unnecessary. The board made a consolidated motion to grant the waivers and approve the application; the motion passed unanimously. The decision will be filed with the town clerk and building inspector.