Montauk
Harbor is one of the busiest commercial fishing ports in New York
State, and a major destination for over 20,000 tourists every summer.
The Town of East Hampton asked Horne Rose LLC of Jonathan Rose
Companies LLC to develop a “smart growth”
redevelopment
strategy that would address the various issues the Harbor area faces.
Concerns included outdated zoning, substandard housing for seasonal and
lower income workers, decaying visual character, lack of sense of place
near the docks, conflicts between land uses, and inadequate waste water
treatment and parking infrastructure.
Collaborating
with Lee
Weintraub, we researched the issues and conducted a series of community
workshops that have resulted in six recommendations for revitalization
of housing, fishing, business, and infrastructure. For example, we
proposed turning a two-way loop road into a one-way loop and adding
parking on both sides of the street. This inexpensive solution calms
traffic and adds parking in front of the retailers’ doors. We
also proposed affordable employer-owned seasonal housing, a model that
has been successfully implemented for another project in Aspen,
Colorado.
