The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee honored one of its own on Saturday, presenting Rick Del Mastro, a committee member for 30 years, with a custom baseball cap and a banner put up outside the Wainscott Chapel.

Mr. Del Mastro, 70, has been a Wainscott resident since 1979. He has been the chairman or co-chairman of the committee 10 times, including this year. Dennis D’Andrea, another longtime committee member, said Mr. Del Mastro had been “the thread that has run through the W.C.A.C.’s entire 30-year history.”

“Whatever side of an issue a committee member or member of the public was on, he insisted that everyone be heard fairly,” Mr. D’Andrea said in an email. “He wanted everyone who spoke before the committee to be assured they would be addressing open minds. The Wainscott committee came to be known as the Athens of the C.A.C.s.”

The East Hampton Town Board appoints members of the Citizens Advisory Committees to advise the board on matters that concern their hamlets.

Mr. Del Mastro’s contributions to public service stretch beyond the town limits. He is the owner of outdoor advertising, marketing, and event planning businesses, and also heavily involved with Life’s WORC, a Garden City-based non-profit organization that supports individuals with autism and other mental health challenges and their families. Mr. Del Mastro recently cut the ribbon on the Family Center for Autism in Garden City, and called the organization one of his passions. He is also passionate about the Wainscott community, and while he will soon step down as chairman, he said he would continue to be very involved.

“I love Wainscott. I’ve gotten to know the people and the landscape, and for all the years I’ve been there, we’ve worked on trying to maintain Wainscott and make it the best home it can be,” Mr. Del Mastro said in an interview. “We feel very proud of what we have accomplished. . . . The nice thing is the relationship you build with the people who live in the hamlet. I consider them not only neighbors, but friends.”

As East Hampton Town begins to undertake various water quality improvement projects that have been recommended as part of a comprehensive wastewater management plan, the impact of waste from the Springs School, just a stone’s throw from both Pussy’s Pond and Accabonac Harbor, is being examined.

According to Kim Shaw, the town’s natural resources director, tests will be conducted with researchers from Cornell Cooperative Extension within the next few weeks. A DNA analysis will be used to pinpoint the source of fecal contamination in the nearby waters. “The enterococcus is through the roof,” Ms. Shaw said. The tests will determine whether the contamination is from human or other waste.

The school has 745 students and generates “very concentrated wastewater” coming mostly from toilets and not, for example, from showers or laundry facilities, where waste would be diluted, Ms. Shaw said.

Six or seven years ago, before the Springs School was hooked up to the public water supply, Ms. Shaw said, its well was found to be contaminated with septic waste.

Septic systems, said Ms. Shaw, “don’t function with high groundwater,” which is found in the area of the school. The site is within a range where groundwater, and any effluent it might contain, takes less than two years to reach Accabonac Harbor, she said.

In a letter to the editor this week, Ira Barocas, a Springs resident, suggested that the school district use some of its accrued capital improvement money to install a state-of-the-art wastewater system. He discussed the idea with the town trustees on Tuesday and is planning to discuss it with the school board. He has also spoken with Ms. Shaw, who said there are grant programs that could ameliorate the cost.

Including a wastewater treatment facility in any school upgrade or expansion will, Mr. Barocas wrote in his letter, “do Pussy’s Pond and Accabonac Harbor a favor that will resonate through our community now and into the future.”

School district voters recently rejected the district’s proposal to spend a $2 million reserve fund to pave two ball fields and create a parking lot, and to make changes to the school driveways.

The effluent from what Mr. Barocas described as “more or less a thousand flushes a day” is clearly related to the degradation of water quality, and associated algal blooms and shellfishing closures, in both Pussy’s Pond and the harbor, he says. “When it swirls down, it’s going somewhere,” he wrote. “If it weren’t going anywhere near our water, our fisheries and recreational water bodies, let alone groundwater, that has to be better.”

Other facilities in the area, such as the Springs Library, Ashawagh Hall, and the Presbyterian church, might also be hooked into a wastewater system, Loring Bolger, who chairs the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee, has suggested.

“Given modern technology, and such a robust capital improvement program,” Mr. Barocas suggested that the school facilities committee, as it formulates a plan for the school campus, might “see the wisdom in providing those of us who pay the bills with the enduring gift of keeping the most concentrated waste stream in our community out of our surface waters. . . .”

Doing so, he said, would put the school at “the forefront of protecting our environment” and set an example for the students as future leaders.

It would be hard to say who was happier or more surprised when Monday night’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee ended almost before it began — the 20 or so members and onlookers in attendance, the new chairwoman at the front of the room, who wasn’t even a member of the committee two weeks ago, the East Hampton Town Board’s liaison to the group, Supervisor Larry Cantwell, whose busy schedule affords few such open windows, or a visitor who arrived at 7, thinking she’d made it right on the dot for the Pledge of Allegiance, only to discover that the meeting time had been changed to 6:30.

The committee’s new chairwoman, taking over from the three-term chairman, Kieran Brew, is Vicki Littman, who is well known not only as the owner of the Vicki’s Veggies farm stand in the hamlet but as chairwoman of the East Hampton Food Pantry and vice president of the Amagansett School PTA.  With her youngest child graduating from the school any day now, Ms. Littman, whose family lives on the same property that her Dellapolla grandfather bought in 1904, said she was ready to take on a new challenge.

The first half-hour of the brief meeting was reportedly devoted to a discussion of the town parking lot behind Amagansett’s Main Street, which gets predictably mobbed in season. At the group’s May meeting, Mr. Cantwell promised that a door-to-door survey would be made to determine how many spaces might be taken up by employees of the nearby businesses. There are 160 spaces in the lot, and it turns out that there are 110 employees at peak times.

Even assuming that not all of them have cars, the number is thought-provoking, a longstanding problem in search of a solution. It was agreed that Carl Hamilton, a committee member and an Amagansett Fire District commissioner, will ask his colleagues whether the town might lease part of the big empty lot next to the firehouse for five years for overflow parking. That lot was formerly part of the Pacific East restaurant property; the Fire District acquired it several years ago after a public referendum.

Also at the meeting, Jim McMullen was elected vice chairman of the committee, Susan Bratton and Rona Klopman were elected co-secretaries, and members welcomed a new member, Francine Lane, who works at the Amagansett Library.

When, at 7:10 p.m., the room fell quiet, Ms. Littman asked, tentatively at first and then with assurance, for a motion to adjourn. It was made and quickly seconded. Everyone applauded, congratulated her, and headed happily home.

An acrimonious rift among members of the board of directors of LTV, the Wainscott organization that provides two public access television channels in East Hampton under contract with the town, has prompted town officials to commission an audit of the nonprofit’s finances. The decision was announced during an annual town board hearing last Thursday to solicit public comment on LTV’s services.

Nawrocki Smith, an outside auditing firm that also checks on the town’s financial practices, will begin working next week with LTV’s accountant, according to Len Bernard, the town budget officer.

The town provides the lion’s share of LTV’s budget, using money the town receives as a franchise fee from Cablevision and a separate fee for public access TV equipment. By law, at least a portion of the fee Cablevision pays the town for its transmission lines must be used to provide public access TV.

According to a four-year contract with LTV running through 2016 (which has a three-year renewal option), the town provides LTV $637,480 annually, plus $40,000 as the equipment fee. In return, LTV films and broadcasts school events and governmental meetings on Channel 22 and also provides town residents with the opportunity to create and air original programs on Channel 20.

The issue among LTV board members apparently turns on a potential consulting contract with Seth Redlus, LTV’s former executive director, who stepped down in March and now lives in Texas.

Robert Strada, the chairman of LTV’s board of directors, told the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday that members of the LTV board had, at an April meeting, introduced what he called “a sweetheart severance and consulting package” for Mr. Redlus without previous board discussion.

“I objected then, and I object now to its content and its clandestine procedure,” he said. Mr. Strada, who has been chairman of the board for almost a decade, said he was then asked by a group of board members to resign.

Mr. Strada said he had “serious questions about the organization’s financial activities” and asked the town board for the financial audit. An audit had already been scheduled, Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell told him. An audit of LTV’s books commissioned by the town in 2012 resulted in several recommendations for better record keeping, but found nothing seriously amiss.

Jim Shelley, the treasurer of LTV and the board vice chairman, who is at odds with Mr. Strada, apologized to town officials for the “current board kerfuffle,” calling it “unseemly.” He pledged to cooperate with the audit of LTV’s books, even offering to pay for the audit personally.

Because of internal disagreements, the LTV board has been unable to gather a quorum, making it impossible to meet and conduct routine business, or, as some board members have reportedly planned, to vote to dismiss Mr. Strada and his wife, Michelle Murphy Strada, from the board.

“LTV functions beautifully, and will continue to function beautifully,” Mr. Strada said. But, he went on, “there are disagreements within the LTV board that have to be resolved. The disagreement is about money and transparency. It’s about fiduciary responsibility.”

Morgan Vaughn, who has been serving as LTV’s interim executive director since March, provided an overview of the station’s offerings. She said that allowing Mr. Redlus to provide “off-site technical direction” was key, as his expertise was unmatched by anyone else at the facility, but that the terms of an agreement with him have not been finalized. “In my opinion it is worth it,” she said. Mr. Redlus, an East Hampton native, is reported to have had an annual salary of $90,000. The fee he was to be paid to provide technical assistance could not be confirmed.

A number of speakers at the hearing told the town board that LTV is doing a good job at offering an invaluable service.

    The Rev. Dr. Katrina Foster, an Amagansett pastor who produces a show on LTV, said the service is “a voice of democracy in our community” that has “had an amazing reach. . . . LTV is one of the best public access facilities in the country,” she said.

“I applaud LTV for the job they do with the amount of money they get,” said Bruce Nalepinski, an East Hampton resident who runs Southampton Town’s public access station, SEA-TV. “I don’t believe their budget is overblown,” he said.

The town board will “ensure that our performance review is thorough and comprehensive, especially under the circumstances we have here today,” Mr. Cantwell told the LTV representatives last week. “I understand that there’s a rift on the board. It’s not the town board’s responsibility to heal that. I’m appealing to the LTV board tonight to heal that rift — find a way to move forward.” LTV “is such an asset to the community,” he said. This week, the supervisor added that the board will rely on the auditors’ recommendations as to how far inquiries into LTV’s financial matters should go, in order “to assure the town that the finances of LTV are appropriate.”

That may or may not include examining the terms of a potential consulting contract with Mr. Redlus. But, the supervisor said, “I don’t want to get ahead of where the issues are.”

Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, who is the board’s liaison to LTV, said Tuesday that he hoped the strife would soon abate, but that it was largely a matter for the organization itself to resolve. “I think we’re getting our money’s worth,” the councilman said. But, he said, if the LTV board disagreement “affects LTV’s ability to provide services,” the situation will be of concern to the town. “Absolutely,” he said.

A list of repairs and maintenance projects at East Hampton Airport was discussed on Tuesday by the town board and consultants who have been hired to establish priorities for the work over the next five years.

Pilots and other airport observers have been critical of the town for lagging on necessary projects, and Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell pressed the consultants continually about how to get the ball rolling.

“There’s a lot of frustration that the town has not kept up on safety and maintenance that most people agree is necessary at the airport,” Mr. Cantwell said. “The inaction of the town is being questioned — legitimately, I think.”

The projects include the installation of an automated weather observation system, (its purchase has already gone out for bids), the removal or flagging of obstructions such as trees or power lines in a runway clear zone, as required by the Federal Aviation Administration, and completion of a perimeter fence for security and to thwart deer, which, consultants said, could be completed this year.

Also on the list are the completion of a taxiway parallel to the main runway, pavement repairs on the runways and near the airport terminal, and the development of a pavement management program to keep on top of cracks and the like, an upgrade of the aviation fuel farm, and a study of wind conditions and runway usage to facilitate decisions about which runways should remain open.

“I think the board is anxious to move forward as quickly as possible. The truth is, we’re behind the eight-ball here,” Mr. Cantwell said, “and we’d like to catch up.” Although the airport’s needs are longstanding and predate his administration, Mr. Cantwell told the consultants, “My message to you guys is let’s get going.”

The board is expected to appoint members of a new airport advisory committee at its meeting tonight. Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez said  three people from the aviation community, three community members affected by aircraft noise, and three who have legal or financial background will be appointed.

Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc recommended adding another member, someone with a background in real estate, and was asked to suggest who it might be.

The new committee will be asked to weigh in on the prioritized list of airport projects, Ms. Burke-Gonzalez said.

In response to the recent transformation, particularly in Montauk, of motel bars and restaurants into popular stand-alone destinations, the East Hampton Town Board is preparing to revise the town code to prohibit new motel-based bars and restaurants in residential zones.

Many of the Montauk facilities in question are in residential areas, but pre-exist the zoning code and, as such, are allowed to continue. However, their popularity has begun to create problems, such as noise and crowding, for neighbors.

Under the new law, motels with a minimum of 25 guest rooms in commercially zoned areas could apply to the planning board for permission to have a bar or restaurant, subject to special-permit standards. They would have to have adequate parking, and be found to be compatible with the neighborhood.

The proposed law will be the subject of a public hearing, which has not been scheduled.

Revisions to the code will also address the development or redevelopment of buildings in commercial areas of the town.

With Beth Baldwin, a town attorney, and Marguerite Wolffsohn, the town’s planning director, the board also discussed on Tuesday how to write a law that would prevent close-to-the road development in highway-front areas like Wainscott, where buildings are typically set back and a buffer is usual, while continuing to allow the traditional sidewalk-front downtown commercial buildings in hamlets such as Amagansett and Montauk.

Draft legislation presented to the board for discussion would allow the planning board to require a greater setback from the road for buildings in central business districts, where a 10-foot minimum setback is now required. The planning board would be allowed to consider the surrounding area and to require developers of a commercial building to adhere to the established standard regarding how buildings are placed. 

A greater setback would not be necessary unless the planning board requires it, in order to allow downtown-style development to continue where appropriate. A pyramid law would be enacted, limiting the height of buildings according to their proximity to property lines, and a hearing required if there are modifications to the building plans.

The law as proposed would apply to two categories only, supermarkets and “superstores,” which are large retail stores. Supermarkets, according to the code, may be as large as 25,000 square feet, and “superstores” may be 10,000 square feet.

Supervisor Larry Cantwell said other types of stores should be on the list as well. “It’s really, any commercial development along the highway should be set back.”

Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc agreed. “The real issue is the mass and scale.”

Ms. Wolffsohn said the overall issue of “zoning the streetscape” was the kind of question to be addressed in forthcoming planning studies of the individual hamlets. “Are you asking us to do something like that now?” she asked Mr. Cantwell. “It really is a part of the hamlet studies.”

“Can’t we find a way to do this without creating a revolution — of zoning?” Mr. Cantwell asked. “I don’t want to delay this. I think this is important, and it’s something we’ve got to get done.”

The discussion was occasioned by the redevelopment of the old Plitt Ford building on Montauk Highway in Wainscott, now a HomeGoods store. It opened on Sunday.

Though the 15,000-square-foot building’s size remained the same, and it complies with existing town code, it stands out along the highway. Many have wondered how such a building was allowed so close to the road.

Board members asked the planning staff to draft a revised law, which will be discussed at a future meeting.

Detailed studies of East Hampton Town’s various hamlets are to be commissioned by the town board in an effort to plan for future development or preservation in accordance with the comprehensive plan.

A draft outline of studies for Wainscott, Springs, East Hampton, Amagansett, and the downtown and dock areas of Montauk is being developed by the Planning Department. It will provide the basis of a request for proposals from professional planning consultants for the studies. Their full scope will take shape during the course of the consultants’ work, which is to include discussions with the public about concerns and visions for the individual hamlets.

According to the draft outline, the studies will cover existing environmental, zoning, land use, and traffic conditions, and each hamlet’s design. They are then to take a look at these matters with regard to future development, as well as recreation and open space, providing for pedestrian and bicycle access, and public transportation.

While the town comprehensive plan, last updated in 2005, contains overall goals for the separate areas of town, it calls for more detailed studies to pinpoint goals for each hamlet.

“The hamlet studies need to fit into the overall comprehensive plan,” Supervisor Larry Cantwell said at a May 19 town board work session. “We’re drilling down into the specific kinds of planning issues within each hamlet — all kinds of detail. This is a chance to really get into the nitty-gritty.”

For instance, according to a draft prepared by Marguerite Wolffsohn, the town’s planning director, the Springs study might include a look at how the hamlet’s isolated pockets of commercial development serve residents and “what is needed for them to thrive without growing too much for the community or destroying the character of the community.”

In Montauk, planning for the future of the downtown area would include an examination of parking, including needs at the beaches and the difference between nighttime and daytime parking demand. The study of the dock area could address improving public access to the waterfront and the potential there for affordable housing. 

Criteria for a planning study of the town’s economy and business needs, which would dovetail with the hamlet studies, have also been under discussion, following recommendations made to the board by an appointed committee earlier this year.

Using the community preservation fund, the East Hampton Town Board has authorized the purchase of three properties, from which houses will be removed in order to return the lands to their natural states.

In Northwest, 6.4 acres will be purchased for $2.5 million from former Town Councilwoman Theresa Quigley and her husband, Hugh Quigley. The land, at 78 Swamp Road, includes three separate lots, one with a residence, which will be removed before the purchase. The land abuts over 500 acres of preserved town, county, and state open space, and contains pine barrens and wetlands as well as the majority of a freshwater pond.

On Gerard Drive in Springs, an ecologically sensitive beach peninsula where the town has made several land buys in order to remove septic systems and structures, a .59-acre lot will be purchased from the estate of Dorothy King, for $900,000. The removal of a small house on the site will allow the re-establishment of a natural buffer area that helps filter water flowing into Accabonac Harbor, according to Scott Wilson, East Hampton’s director of land acquisition and management.

The third purchase approved at a meeting last week was once the home place of Zebulon Montgomery Pike Field, a fisherman who worked Three Mile Harbor. The house, on 2.75 acres at 30 and 32 Three Mile Harbor Road, near the head of the harbor, dates to around 1800, with a mid-1800s addition, according to Bob Hefner, a consultant to the town on historic preservation. The structure, however, is not salvageable and will be taken down. Mr. Hefner said Mr. Field, who was known as Uncle Zeb, would sell herbs that he had harvested on East Hampton Main Street. His house, one among a number of small houses in Springs that reflect different building types than the historic structures seen in the village, was of note back in the day, Mr. Hefner said, as its owner would whitewash it, but only up as high as he could reach.

The property, which will be purchased for $1 million, is currently owned by Jonathan Miller. Mr. Wilson said it contains an oak and hickory woodland and will become a “pocket wildlife reserve area.”

A number of land purchases made by the town of late have been of improved parcels from which houses are removed. The strategy enables the town to restore natural areas and eliminate development, and associated septic waste, from environmentally sensitive areas such as that around Accabonac Harbor.

After an outreach program to owners of land around Lake Montauk, which resulted in a number of preservation fund purchases, Mr. Wilson’s department has begun to focus on acquisitions in Springs.

The acquisition of land with houses has been criticized by David Buda, a Springs resident who submitted written comments to the town board on the three purchases approved last week. Mr. Buda questioned whether the town was paying full price for houses that are then removed. He suggested that there should be a review of whether the preservation fund is being used according to “sound and fiscally prudent policies,” and whether the town is getting “the most bang for the buck.”

The town, he said in his letter, should pay for the value of the land component only.

Mr. Wilson said yesterday that the appraisals on which the town bases its purchase offers do, of necessity, include the value of any houses on a lot. However, he said, “Do we try to strive for a bargain sale on each property? Sure we do.”

In the King and Miller cases, he said, the houses added “no real contributing value” to the sites.

After years of land preservation efforts, he said, and with few large vacant parcels left undeveloped, preservation opportunities often focus on reversing the buildup of areas that perhaps should never have been developed. Some lots, for example, were created by hauling in fill, he said. “Why wouldn’t we try to protect Accabonac Harbor?” he asked.

By returning to nature lots that are contiguous to other preserved areas, he added, “we are filling in the missing pieces.”

A 150-foot communications tower erected behind the Springs Firehouse on Fort Pond Boulevard, which spurred complaints by neighbors and other hamlet residents over aesthetics and safety, has prompted an appeal to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals that seeks to overturn its building permit.

David Kelley, an attorney and resident of Talmage Farm Lane in Springs, submitted the appeal last week through his attorney, Anthony C. Pasca of Esseks, Hefter and Angel of Riverhead. Mr. Kelley has been a vocal representative of concerned neighbors, gathering information about the pole, and initiating discussions with the elected Springs Board of Fire Commissioners, which authorized its construction. The pole was erected without community discussion, and, neighbors said, without adequately proving the need for it.

Fire commissioners have said the antenna was needed to improve communications for the radios and pagers used by fire and ambulance volunteers, and that the tall pole is the only way to address that need.

The pole was constructed and is owned by a company called Elite Towers, which can rent space to up to five private cellular communications companies for interior antennas. According to the fire commissioners, Elite will pay the district $1,500 a month in rent, plus $3,000 a month for each cellular carrier that locates equipment in the pole.

Mr. Kelley asserts that the town Building Department improperly exempted the Fire District from review by the planning board and that the antenna does not comply with several applicable building and zoning regulations.

Even under the terms of an exemption, Mr. Kelley believes the district should have been required to conduct a New York State Environmental Quality Review Act study of potential environmental impacts.

Asked about the SEQRA requirement at a May 11 meeting with concerned community members, fire commissioners said the study would be undertaken.

Not only does the Z.B.A. appeal ask that the building permit be rescinded, but that the fire district be required to apply to the planning board for site plan approval and a special permit under the town code or to ask the planning board for an exemption pursuant to previous case law.

The owners of Montauk’s Royal Atlantic Motel have asked to be included as defendants in Defend H2O’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from building a reinforced dune along the downtown Montauk beach.

Defend H20 filed suit in March against the East Hampton Town Board, Suffolk County, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as well as the Army Corps to block the project, which they claim would cause further beach erosion, obstruct public access to the beach, and destroy recreational opportunities and the commerce related to them.

Earlier this month, the Royal Atlantic Corporation, Royal Atlantic East Condominium Owners Association, and a group called the Montauk Beach Preservation Association applied to the United States Eastern District Court to intervene in the lawsuit as additional defendants in order to provide information and to make a counterclaim against Defend H2O.

With 2,900 feet of oceanfront property, they say that their buildings, since Hurricane Sandy, have been “completely exposed to the elements and the ravages of storms and the Atlantic Ocean,” and that they will be adversely affected if the Army Corps project does not proceed.

Earlier this spring, the Army Corps awarded an $8.4 million contract to H&L Contracting of Bay Shore to use 14,560 sand-filled geotextile bags to create a 3,100-foot-long and 50-foot-wide artificial dune along the beach from the Atlantic Terrace motel on the west to Emery Street on the east. It would be covered with three feet of sand, some of which will be stockpiled from beach excavations and the rest trucked in from an offsite sand mine.

The work was to have begun this spring and suspended for the summer season, but due to delays that left little time before Memorial Day, it has been postponed until fall.

The petition to join the lawsuit is signed by Themistocles Kalimnios as president of both the Royal Atlantic Corporation and the Royal Atlantic East Condominium Owners Association, and by Steven Kalimnios, as president of the not-for-profit Montauk Beach Preservation Association.

They claim in the court filing that they represent “a majority of the largest hotel and motel facilities in Montauk,” which have an economic impact, based on their income, of more than $186 million a year.

“It is not the plaintiffs who bring economic sustenance to Montauk,” they wrote in the petition to the court, but rather their group.

If Defend H20’s lawsuit succeeds, they say, “in all likelihood it will cause the strangulation of Montauk as a town,” and threaten their survival.

Should the Army Corps beach project be scuttled, they said they would hold the plaintiffs personally liable for physical and monetary damages, as a result of loss of income.

Their request to the court concludes with the Biblical adage, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”

The Army Corps plan, formally called the Downtown Montauk Stabilization Project, was authorized under a post-Hurricane Sandy emergency beach repair program, and is designed as a stop-gap measure until the Army Corps undertakes a more extensive project as part of its Fire Island to Montauk Point reformulation study. That study has been under way for decades, and observers have questioned when and whether it might occur.

The reinforced dune would be built with federal money, although the town would be responsible for its maintenance.

The head of Defend H20, Kevin McAllister, and the other plaintiffs — Mike Bottini, Rav Freidel, Jay Levine, and Thomas Muse — assert in their lawsuit that the project conflicts with numerous shoreline policies in the town’s state-approved Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan, including a ban on hard structures on the ocean beach.