Ethics board finds no violation for town planner working as consultant on Riverside project A rendering of the proposed 7-Eleven at the Riverside roundabout.
The Riverhead Town Ethics Board found no ethics violation with town Building and Planning Administrator Jeff Murphree working as a consultant on a proposed 7-Eleven and gas station at the Riverside roundabout.
Vince Taldone, the president of the Flanders, Riverside and Northampton Community Association, which opposes the project, filed the ethics complaint April 6 with Riverhead Town. Mr. Taldone said he received a copy of the ethics board’s written decision Thursday morning.
The ethics board’s ruling are confidential, but are sent to the person bringing the complaint and the person who is the subject of the complaint, according to Erik Howard, the town’s deputy attorney assigned to the ethics board. Mr. Howard said those people are free to release the decision from that point.
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.
By Kitty Merrill The route through the working-class neighborhood passes modest houses, some small enough to fit comfortably into the living rooms of the multimillion-dollar mansions on the southern and eastern sides of Southampton Town. At the termi
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A new proposal for a 7-Eleven at the Riverside traffic circle is before the Southampton Town Planning Board. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister)
A proposal to build a gas station with a 7-Eleven convenience store at the Riverside traffic circle will be the subject of a March 11 virtual work session discussion before the Southampton Town Planning Board, as well as a pre-submission virtual hearing before the Planning Board on March 25.
A company called 9-11 Flanders, LLC is proposing to redevelop the southeast corner of the circle with a six-pump gasoline station and a 3,024-square-foot 7-Eleven.
The nearly 40,000-square-foot property has been home to an abandoned gas station for many years.