The Town of East Hampton treasures and is committed to sustaining its diverse array of cultural, natural, rural, scenic, historic, prehistoric, and agricultural resources. The Planning Department plays a major stewardship role by providing professional planning and technical analysis of how the town's land use affects these resources. The Director and Department personnel use their various expertise to support the town's policies as outlined in the Town Comprehensive Plan.

The Planning Department reviews all applications for development that require approvals from the Zoning Board and Planning Board. We also offer input to the Architectural Review Board, the Town Board and the Town Trustees. The Department’s staff members serve on several Town committees, participate in the development of Town policies and regulations and work on a wide array of Town projects. We represent the Town in a number of East End and Suffolk County Planning efforts.


Planning Department Professional Staff

300 Pantigo Place
Suite 105
East Hampton, NY 11937
(631) 324-2178

The Planning Department Office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Planners are available to answer questions between 1:00pm and 4:00 pm or by appointment.

• Planning Department Year End Report 2005
  This report contains a summary of all of the Planning Department's work during the 2005 calendar year. Click link to read the report and attachment (Planning Board Approvals 2005).

   

• The Town of East Hampton's Comprehensive Plan

   

• The Community Preservation Fund Project Plan

   

• Parcel Specific Open Space Recommendations
  
• Amagansett School District
  
• East Hampton School District
  
• East Hampton Village
  
• Montauk School District
  
• Sag Harbor
  
• Springs School District
  
• Wainscott School District
  
  
• Downtown Montauk Hamlet Study
  The Planning Department is currently working on the Montauk Hamlet study called for in recommendation #33 of the Town Comprehensive Plan. This plan will address the unique needs of downtown Montauk and the challenges facing this community. We will post information regarding the study and our progress in this location as it becomes available. Please feel free to contact the Planning Department if you have any questions regarding the study.

  The Department and the Town Board reviewed the study area boundary and outline at the February 7, 2006 Town Board Work Session.

• Click here to read the Outline.
• Click here to see a map of the study area.

The Planning Department presented the draft Inventory section of the plan to the Town Board at the August 5, 2008 Town Board work session. The next step in the process is a workshop to analyze the results of the inventory, develop the plan and recommendations and determine how the problems identified should be solved. Public participation will be encouraged. The Town Board will schedule the workshop for sometime in September or October.

• Click here to read the draft inventory.
• Click here to read the Power Point Presentation of the draft inventory.
  
  
• Scenic Resources Protection Plan (pdf)
  You can download a PDF to your hard drive and open it with the Adobe Reader. This will allow you have a copy for offline viewing or as a backup copy. Right-click your mouse on the link and select the "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." option. You will be asked where to save the file on your hard drive and bypass the Acrobat Reader browser plug-in. Use Adobe Reader to open the file after downloading.
  
• Scenic Resources Protection Plan (html - in progress)