A Napeague resident has sued the town to prevent parking across the street from his house on Dolphin Drive, alongside a town-owned nature preserve.

Jonathan Wallace is among a number of neighborhood residents who have come out strongly against the adoption of a management plan for the 37-acre South Flora Preserve. The plan calls for public parking along Dolphin Drive.

According to the lawsuit, providing parking spaces next to the preserve would damage its ecosystem and the habitat of protected species; cause erosion of nearby primary and secondary dunes, and threaten flooding of the neighborhood during severe storms.

The suit also claims that the proposed management plan, which calls for parking for 25 cars, violates provisions of the town code and of the State Environmental Quality Review Act. The nature preserve committee, which prepared the plan, presented it recently to the East Hampton Town Board, which has not yet taken action on it.

The lawsuit asks the court to prohibit the town board from adopting it and to declare that the proposed parking area is within the preserve. It claims also that the plan does not comply with various town laws, including the Local Waterfront Revitalization Project plan.

The recent court filing is Mr. Wallace’s second suit against the town over parking on Dolphin Drive. The first sought to have “no parking” signs replaced along the road, which town officials agreed to do before this summer began.

The idea of allowing cars from outside the area to park along streets in their neighborhood continues to rankle residents of the area, a small square of streets bordered by Montauk Highway and the Atlantic Ocean on Napeague,  with one charging on Tuesday that the town was making a calculated attempt to open the area up for additional public access to the ocean beaches. The tussle began last August over the removal of no-parking signs along Dolphin Drive, which ended with their replacement before the beach season this year.

With the exception of a small parking lot open to town residents at the end of Atlantic Drive, no street parking has been allowed in the neighborhood. Residents of the area have been lobbying hard against a town nature preserve committee recommendation that some parking be allowed along Dolphin Drive, at the edge of the South Flora preserve.

At a town board meeting Tuesday, Marty Ligorner called the recent removal of no-parking signs on Leeton Road, another small lane in the neighborhood, “an assault on our community by the Highway Department.” According to Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, a resident had alerted the town to the faded condition of the signs, but before their replacement was scheduled, officials reviewed the parking regulations and found there was no law against parking on a section of that road.

Jonathan Wallace, a Dolphin Drive resident who sued the town after it found no legislative authority for a parking ban there, said, “To do this a second time on Leeton is not coincidental.” He said, “We start to hear voices now demanding parking on Marlin Drive,” another neighborhood road. In addition, he said, members of the nature preserve committee had recently raised a question about town ownership of the roadside, which Mr. Wallace described as “23 feet of our front yards.”

 “These five things all tie together in a plan to transform our neighborhood,” Mr. Wallace said, charging that the nature preserve committee, which developed the draft management plan for South Flora, had “gone far beyond” the bounds of its charge.

Speaking later in the meeting, Mr. Wallace’s wife, Mary Wallace, urged the town board to ensure the protection of the dunes at the foot of Dolphin Drive, where there is a walking path. She said foot traffic was destroying the dunes, which she said were key to protecting the area from flooding. “If there is a storm tomorrow, we are done. We are done,” she said.

Although Supervisor Cantwell said that “most of that traffic is coming from your subdivision,” Ms. Wallace disagreed, saying erosion caused by foot traffic was “not from the neighborhood people.”

Less than a month after two dogs that swam in Fort Pond in Montauk experienced gastrointestinal illness, the State Department of Environmental Conservation reported a persistent bloom of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, in the pond and cautioned against swimming or wading in it. Pets and children should also be kept away from the water, according to the D.E.C.

On the South Fork, cyanobacteria also persists in Wainscott Pond in Wainscott and Agawam Lake and Mill Pond in Southampton, according to the D.E.C. Levels of cyanobacteria, and associated toxins, are particularly high in Agawam Lake.

While blue-green algae are naturally present in lakes and streams, an abundance, caused by warm water temperatures and a lack of tidal flushing, can lead to harmful blooms. Exposure can cause vomiting or diarrhea, skin, eye, or throat irritation, nausea, or allergic reactions or breathing difficulties.

The East Hampton Town Trustees, in conjunction with Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University, have been monitoring waters under trustee jurisdiction for the past three years. While Fort Pond is not under trustee jurisdiction, Dr. Gobler’s lab analyzed a sample of its water on July 29. The sample, he wrote in an email on Monday, contained 100 micrograms of blue-green algae pigments per liter and 5 micrograms per liter of microcystin, a class of toxins produced by some cyanobacteria that can cause serious damage to the liver.

The World Health Organization has set an international standard of 1 microgram of microcystin per liter, and the D.E.C. requires that any water body with greater than 25 micrograms of cyanobacteria pigments per liter be listed on its statewide assessment site.

The analysis followed an earlier examination resulting from the dogs becoming ill. That analysis showed relatively low levels of blue-green algae, but also “a mix of the types of blue-green algae that are known to produce toxins including microcystis,” Dr. Gobler wrote to town, county, and D.E.C. officials.

At the trustees’ July 28 meeting, Diane McNally, the presiding officer, told her colleagues that waterways under trustee jurisdiction continue to be healthy, although Georgica Pond in East Hampton, which was closed to the harvesting of crabs and other marine life for much of last year due to a cyanobacteria bloom, was experiencing a dense accumulation of a macro algal bloom, or seaweed. The pond was open to the Atlantic Ocean for much of this year, which, she said, had had the desired flushing effect.

At the trustees’ prior meeting, on July 14, Stephanie Forsberg, the assistant clerk, had reported that the macro algal bloom in Georgica Pond had resulted in a drop in dissolved oxygen and in isolated fish kills.

Twenty-one citations for violating East Hampton Town’s new curfew on nighttime landings at East Hampton Airport have been issued since the law went into effect earlier this summer, Jemille Charlton, the airport manager, reported this week.

Twelve jets and one helicopter were charged with violating an extended curfew for “noisy” aircraft, barring them from taking off or landing between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. The transgressions occurred mostly between 7 and 9 a.m. and 8 and 11 p.m., Mr. Charlton told the town board on Tuesday.

Eight aircraft subject to the standard 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew were also cited. Those violations occurred between 6 and 7 a.m. and 1 and 2 a.m., said Mr. Charlton, who also delivered an airport traffic report.

While the overall number of takeoffs and landings at the airport in the first half of 2015 decreased slightly from 2014, Mr. Charlton said, complaints about aircraft noise almost doubled for the same time period.

Also on the increase — by almost 66 percent over last year — are the number of seaplanes coming and going to the airport, and complaints related to them. The complaints increased by 238 percent over the first half of 2014.

From January to June, the airport received 9,749 noise complaints altogether, coming from 309 different households.

The airport manager also reported on traffic over the two summer holiday weekends, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. While total aircraft traffic over the Memorial Day holiday was only 28 percent higher than last year, the number of complaints went up by 220 percent, to 1,177. Complaints about helicopters skyrocketed to a total of 889, up from 222 during the 2014 Memorial Day weekend, a 300-percent increase.

Over the Fourth of July holiday, between July 2 and 6, Mr. Charlton reported that airport traffic grew by half over last year, with a total of 1,217 “operations” — takeoffs and landings. Complaints came in from 121 households, about the same as last year, but each household made more of them, upping the average per household by 40 percent. Complaints about helicopters, totaling 761 over the weekend period, outstripped by far those involving other types of aircraft.

With costs of approximately $300,000 expected this year for services related to airport noise, such as logging complaints, tracking flights, and compiling data on aircraft that prompt complaints or violate the airport curfews, the town board has proposed adding a $75 “noise-management fee” onto the landing fees for aircraft that fall into the “noisy” category, defined as planes with a particular decibel noise rating of 91 or greater.

The fee is expected to generate about $337,500 annually, enough to cover the expenses for airport noise-management programs.

Also being discussed are additional changes to the airport landing fee schedule, which the board had discussed earlier this month.

Attorneys from Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell, the town’s consulting aviation law firm, have advised that the town is within its legal rights to raise landing fees in order to generate enough revenue for the airport to be self-sustaining.

The fees were increased by 10 percent last year, with a 25-percent surcharge for night landings between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., before the nighttime curfew was passed. Aircraft based at East Hampton, and police, government, and other public service aircraft are exempt from the landing fees.

An increase discussed earlier this month was intended to allocate the fees more equitably, depending on the type of aircraft, and to raise them enough to cover unexpected airport operating expenses, and possibly airport maintenance and repairs as well. The fee structure as now proposed would continue to set the fee based on an aircraft’s weight, but would establish various weight classes rather than charge fees per thousand pounds of weight. The fees would range from $25 for aircraft that weigh between 2,600 and 4,999 pounds, to $800 for planes weighing 50,000 pounds or more.

The board is expected to vote at its meeting tonight on resolutions adopting the new fees and the “noisy” aircraft surcharge.

A proposed subdivision at 10 Roberts Lane in East Hampton appeared to die a quick death on Aug. 5, during a preliminary review before the East Hampton Town Planning Board.

The proposal involves 3.4 acres owned by Madelyn Ewing, in a district zoned for two-acre lots. Ms. Ewing wants to create two lots, the smaller being 1.4 acres.

In a memo to the board, JoAnne Pahwul, assistant town planning director, found little to mitigate in favor of the proposal. The property, she noted, is in the South Fork Special Groundwater Protection area, where the goal has always been to limit density.

“During the 2005 Comprehensive Plan update,” she wrote, “this and other lots in this area that were zoned [for two acres] that were not sub-dividable were not upzoned.” But larger properties were, to a minimum of five acres, which, she said, was “critical to protecting East Hampton’s groundwater resources.”

Even were the planning board inclined to grant the request, Ms. Pahwul said, Ms. Ewing would have to apply to the Zoning Board of Appeals for a lot-size variance.

Ian Calder-Piedmonte, a board member, began the discussion. “In this subdivision, there would be no open space created,” he said. Should the applicant seek the needed relief from the zoning board, “I see no planning reason to grant a variance.”

“Twenty thousand square feet is beyond the pale,” Bob Schaefer said. “You would create a precedent.”

The other board members in attendance that night, Diana Weir, Nancy Keeshan, and Reed Jones, the chairman, all agreed, and the matter was tabled, to be reconsidered only if and when the zoning board grants the needed variance.

Republican candidates for office gathered at East Hampton Point restaurant last Thursday, promising if elected to deliver the effective leadership they said is now in short supply.

With Ed Cox, the party’s state chairman, in attendance, candidates met with supporters and spoke about policy changes they would like to make. “Leadership is certainly the biggest issue,” Tom Knobel, the Republican candidate for East Hampton Town supervisor, said. Mr. Knobel, the Repubican Committee’s chairman and a former member of the town board and town trustees, said, “This town board, even on its favorite issues, is not able to pull the trigger and obtain results.”

Mentioning the Army Corps of Engineers plan to rebuild the beach in downtown Montauk, Mr. Knobel said, “Not a molecule of sand has been moved.” He also pointed to this summer’s crescendo of complaints from the hamlet’s residents about out-of-control crowds. The present town board, he said, favors additions to the town code. “Instead of writing new laws,” he said, “enforce the ones that you have. What is the purpose of creating new laws that you don’t enforce?”

Democrats on the town board, Mr. Knobel said, “look at things from only one angle, and every single piece of legislation has collateral damage that they only discover at the public hearing. . . .  They chose to bring forth a rental-registry proposal that got everybody very concerned and angry, and then did absolutely nothing with it. They did the same thing with light trucks.” Mr. Knobel also complained about the inability to create affordable housing. “Issue after issue they have brought up,” he said, “and basically flubbed.”

Margaret Turner, a candidate for the town board, said she had gotten into the race “because I’m not happy with the pace that our current board is operating at. I think we are at a turning point in our town with some very serious issues, and I don’t feel there is a sense of urgency on the sitting town board.”

Ms. Turner, who was selected last month to replace Nancy Keeshan, who cited prior commitments in withdrawing her candidacy, is the executive director of the East Hampton Business Alliance. She is neither a politician nor does she intend to become one, she said. “I’m in this for the four years to get a lot of things accomplished.”

She is nothing if not confident. “Not only am I running,” she told a member of the gathering, “but I’m going to win.”

Lisa Mulhern-Larsen, the party’s other candidate for town board, spoke of quality-of-life issues, particularly in Montauk and Springs. “There needs to be more support for the police,” she said with regard to Montauk and its summer crowds, citing public safety. “With that will come a change, and quickly.” Overcrowded housing in Springs, she said, is another problem that demands action. “I look forward to being elected,” she said.

Greg Mansley, the Republican Committee’s media director, said the lively campaign event was evidence of “a new, re-energized Republican Party in East Hampton, one that is eager to correct the problems that have been allowed to develop over the past couple of years.”

“I see candidates,” Mr. Mansley said, “that are working for solutions, and have the foresight to see potential issues and deal with them.”

In response to the recent uprising by residents against what they describe as an unruly and rowdy environment this summer in Montauk, East Hampton Town officials are taking a multi-pronged approach to deal with issues of crowding, illegal nightclubs, traffic, drunken behavior, and more. A crowd of some 300 jammed the Montauk Firehouse on July 14 to demand a strong response.

There is no silver bullet, officials have said, but actions have been taken in recent weeks to chip away at the multi-headed hydra of problems.

To address congestion along Edgemere Street, where Surf Lodge patrons park up and down the west side of the road, blocking the road shoulder and walking in the roadway to get to the club, the board is moving to establish a no-parking zone from just north of the club south to where Edgemere intersects with Elwell Street. Parking is already banned on the east side of Edgemere.

While Edgemere is a county road, necessitating the county’s permission on parking regulations, the town has reportedly been given the okay to move forward, with an indication that the county will not object to the new rule.

A public hearing on the restriction has been scheduled for Aug. 6 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall.

Though the parking rule will help, East Hampton Town Police Chief Mike Sarlo said at the board session on Tuesday, part of the problem is that the Surf Lodge security team allows only guests of the motel there to pull into the club’s parking lot. Taxis are made to stop outside, and they also block the road. The chief said that he had discussed the issue with the Surf Lodge, and that “we try to address that with enforcement efforts when we can.”

Conduct on the beach is also under the town board microscope. At another Aug. 6 hearing, board members will hear from the public on a proposed law requiring containers for beach fires, and discussion of an alcohol ban on Montauk beaches will begin with Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc raising the topic at a Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee meeting. It will also be on the agenda for the next town board meeting in Montauk, on Aug. 11.

“I think some of the concerns that have been raised relate to some of the drinking at night in the downtown area,” Mr. Cantwell said Tuesday. The board last year enacted a ban on drinking at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett during certain days and hours to tamp down a party scene there.

Overcrowding and rowdy, drunken behavior at Montauk nightspots have also become a concern.

To press business owners to keep track of the number of patrons and not exceed their limits, the board has proposed a law that would require bars and nightclubs that have a maximum occupancy of more than 100 people to use mechanical or electronic counting devices to keep a running tab.

The law would, in addition, deem a “stationary line of people in front of any required or designated exit” an illegal obstruction.

A hearing on the law will be held at Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 20.

The town is also vowing to get tough on noisy bars that violate town ordinances.

Mr. Cantwell said he and Chief Sarlo had met with Montauk business owners to seek “the highest level of cooperation we can get. But,” he said, “I also want to call out those that are not cooperating. It’s very disappointing to me. We will try to gain that cooperation, or otherwise enforce the laws that are at our disposal.”

Actions are being taken against the Harbor Bar and Lounge for operating as a nightclub without permits, and Ciao, for noise violations. They are reported on separately in today’s paper.

A law banning the addition of new bars or restaurants at motels in residential zones, and requiring a permit and compliance with a new set of standards for those where they would be allowed, was passed by the board on July 2. 

The establishment of a rental registry was taken up once again by the board at its work session on Tuesday. Two information sessions last year drew numerous comments — mostly criticism — from the public.

Michael Sendlenski, a town attorney, said that in Southampton, where he had worked, a registry had been an “invaluable tool” to help identify and prosecute illegal share houses and overcrowded dwellings.

An East Hampton registry law, he said, could also be drafted to make it clear that group dormitory living situations, such as those used by the Ross School for its students, were not considered the “functional equivalent of a family” and allowed. Board members reviewed details on Tuesday of the proposed registry law, for which a public hearing would be held before possible adoption.

Town attorneys are also working to clarify the town code barring bedrooms in basements.

Also on Tuesday, the board had John Jilnicki, a town attorney, summarize revised guidelines regarding public assemblies on commercial properties.

Except for activities for which the premises have town planning board approval, with occupancy limits set, commercial gatherings — concerts or other entertainment events for which tickets are sold, activities that require off-site parking or a tent, and sales of merchandise or food and drink, if outside of the site’s approved use — are not permitted without a specific town permit. Events sponsored by charitable organizations that benefit East Hampton residents are exempted.

The law was revised last year “to tighten up the use of commercial premises for multiple uses that we’ve seen the last few years,” Mr. Jilnicki said.

Councilman Van Scoyoc, the board’s Montauk liaison, reported on Tuesday that an additional garbage collection crew has been added on weekends, and the timing of pickups adjusted, he said, “to more directly correlate with when people are coming off the beach.” A separate crew, he said, has been assigned to make a continual loop around Montauk to pick up garbage at various road ends and at downtown spots.

Three portable toilets have been placed at the beach parking lot near the former East Deck motel in Montauk, Mr. Van Scoyoc said, and another three at the “dirt lot” parking area east of there and at the Ditch Plain Beach.

“I feel that we’ve been making steady progress on a number of issues, but this issue has boiled over,” Supervisor Cantwell said Monday.

“One act is not going to solve all problems. If you want to see a meaningful difference, there are a lot of things we’re going to have to do.”

According to statistics released by Chief Sarlo, on Friday and Saturday last weekend, police and Marine Patrol officers wrote 85 town code summonses, 25 tickets for vehicle and traffic law violations, and 36 parking tickets. Seven arrests were made, including three for driving while intoxicated and two for possession of a controlled substance.

Four businesses were cited for noise violations, he said, and one was issued a ticket for hosting an event on the beach without a town permit.

East Hampton Town has appealed a federal court injunction barring implementation of a law that would have restricted the noisiest aircraft using East Hampton Airport to one round trip per week.

That law was adopted along with two others implementing an overnight curfew on aircraft, which took effect on July 2. Opponents of airport use restrictions sued following the adoption of the laws in April, and won the injunction against the third law.

According to a town press release, “the three use restrictions were intended to work together to provide noise relief,” and the one-trip-per-week restriction “is an integral part” of the town’s plan to address the aircraft noise issues that have prompted thousands of complaints from across the East End.

“We believe all three laws are lawful and necessary to protect the quality of life on the East End,” said Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell in the release. “The one trip per week restriction was designed to limit the noisiest aircraft during the summer season, when residents and visitors naturally have a heightened expectation that they can enjoy the outdoor environment.”

The town has retained Kathleen M. Sullivan, described as “one of the nation’s pre-eminent appellate attorneys,” to assist its airport legal firm, Kaplan Kirsch Rockwell, in the appeal.

The Quiet Skies Coalition, an East Hampton group advocating for the “noise-affected,” said this week that “the compressed time frame into which the curfews force the remaining aircraft traffic has unintended impacts on residents all over the East End.” Residents under typical flight paths have complained about more traffic during the non-curfew hours.

The coalition expressed concern over the Federal Aviation Administration’s position in regard to a 2005 lawsuit settlement, which could potentially affect East Hampton Town’s ability to impose noise-related airport access limits.

The F.A.A. was sued by the East Hampton-based Committee to Stop Airport Expansion over an improper grant to the town for airport improvements. Under the settlement, the agency agreed that as of 2014 it would no longer enforce several grant assurances, contractual obligations between the agency and an airport owner that accepts federal monies. Accepting grant assurances can restrict local control over an airport.

The expiration of those obligations helped pave the way for the airport regulations. However, in an apparent turnaround, the F.A.A. supported a recent request that the three laws be temporarily stayed. The aviation coalition that sued over the new rules, a group called Friends of the East Hampton Airport, had called for the stay.

“The F.A.A.’s response to the current challenge of the settlement has been hesitant and suggests that the government is reluctant to defend the agreement,” said the Quiet Skies Coalition in its release this week.

The group noted that Congressman Lee Zeldin had successfully amended an F.A.A. appropriations bill to include language ensuring that the agency stands by the 2005 settlement. The bill has passed the House of Representatives. According to the Quiet Skies release, support for its passage in the Senate is needed, but Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has not indicated that he will back it.

The bill has not yet been offered to the Senate, a spokeswoman at Senator Schumer’s office said yesterday. The senator did, however, write in June to Michael P. Huerta, the F.A.A. administrator, asking that the agency stand by a memo to former Congressman Tim Bishop indicating that it would not interfere with East Hampton’s airport regulations.

“People have a right to expect that contracts made in federal court by the government of the United States are legitimate agreements anchored in the law of the land, which will be honored by that body,” said Kathleen Cunningham, the Quiet Skies Coalition chairwoman. “The idea that 10 years out, the F.A.A. can somehow rewrite this deal because in hindsight it sees it as a hindrance stretches the boundaries of reasonable redress. Doesn’t a statute of limitations apply here? Or does the F.A.A. have an infinite period of time to renege on decade-old agreements?”

Also this week on the airport front, a new grassroots group was formed “to combat the ever-growing problem of helicopter and aircraft noise from East Hampton Airport.” Called East End Quiet Coalition, it counts members from both the North and South Forks.

The group’s founders said in a release that they are “unhappy with more than 10 years of failure from East Hampton Airport, the East Hampton Town Board, the Southampton Town Board, federal government, county and state elected officials and the Federal Aviation Administration, to solve this noise and pollution problem.”

A loophole in an F.A.A.-mandated helicopter route along Long Island’s North Shore, the group says — a route advocated by Senator Schumer in response to noise complaints — allows helicopters traveling between New York City and East Hampton to transition across the North Fork, Shelter Island, and parts of Southampton Town before landing. The new coalition has pledged to take legal action, to educate the public and press those who commute on helicopters and small planes to use alternative methods of commuting, and to convince “politicians and the F.A.A. that public outcry trumps big money and special interests of the few.” East End Quiet Coalition plans to coordinate with other noise-abatement groups.

At its first meeting with new officers at the helm, the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee inspected draft outlines of hamlet and business-needs studies and agreed to compile suggestions to improve them, heard from the town’s chief harbormaster about a proposal that beach fires be confined in metal containers, and hoped anew that a public restroom might someday be constructed in the business district parking lot.

While the hamlet study outline was closely aligned with many of the committee’s topics of discussion, such as land use, parking needs, and affordable housing, the business-needs study provoked references to the growing clash of commercial and residential interests in Montauk.

“What benefit does a year-round resident get for the diminution of quality of life?” asked Jeanne Frankl. “What does the town get in tax revenue?”

The study is intended to look at commercial and residential needs alike, said Supervisor Larry Cantwell, the town board’s liaison to the committee.

A healthy tax base and adequate funding for public services are important, Ms. Frankl said, but asked, “How do we balance the desire to have a thriving tourist economy with the concerns of a residential community for a high quality of life?” An analysis of the taxes, and costs, generated by businesses, and an assessment of their impact on quality of life and environmental goals should be part of the inquiry, she said. Another element of the study “might also be, where do these revenues go to? Are local entrepreneurs really reaping the benefit, or are we providing people an opportunity to come from all over and exploit the environment we provide?” Vicki Littman, the group’s new chairwoman, asked Ms. Frankl to put those thoughts in writing to be forwarded to the town board by tomorrow. 

Ed Michels, the town’s chief harbormaster, told the committee that 36 of 92 summonses issued by his department over the July 4 weekend were for beach fires, with another 44 issued last weekend. Officers, he said, have found everything from couches, garbage, and glass to snow fencing and even lifeguard stands in beach fires. Visitors unaware of town regulations, he said, “think that by burying it it’s going to go out,” but people and dogs have been burned by embers long afterward. “If they’re real good at burying it,” he said, a northeaster in the fall will uncover the remains, “and the beach is black.”

A proposed amendment would require that fires be fully contained within a metal container, as in East Hampton Village. Mr. Cantwell said that in his experience as village administrator, “With enough control, over time, people become aware that they need” a container, and that the regulation “did significantly improve the amount of debris left behind.” He said that the proposal has been referred to the town trustees, who have jurisdiction over most town beaches, and that a public hearing is likely.

The committee voted 9 to 4 to support the amendment. Those opposing it felt it was ambiguous and should be worded differently, or that additional regulation was unnecessary.

Mr. Cantwell told the committee of a potential new location for the long-desired public restroom, construction of which was again delayed after opposition to its previously proposed location, directly behind the Amagansett Library. The latest proposal is on the north end of the lot, occupying four to five parking spaces. “It fits back there without real modifications to the building,” he said. A sidewalk along the lot’s north side, connecting to the one on its west  side, might also be added, providing a path to the restroom without the need to walk through the lot.

The lot would also be re-striped, an effort that was to coincide with the since-postponed construction of the restroom, with a resulting net gain of around five spaces. “The parking lot could use a facelift,” said Michael Cinque of Amagansett Wine and Spirits. “We haven’t cleaned up from last year’s dust storms yet. I think if we sweep it, seal the asphalt, and restripe it, that would be great.” Mr. Cantwell sent an email to Stephen Lynch, the town’s highway superintendent, asking that the lot be swept.

East Hampton Town’s Public Safety Division reported last week that the Ordinance Enforcement Department had opened cases on 1,076 alleged code violations during the first half of 2015, up from 621 cases opened during the first six months of 2014.

According to Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, who commented in a press release, the department’s half-year report depicts a “notable increase in enforcement activity in the Town of East Hampton, highlighting the town’s continued improvement in enforcing the town code, to the benefit of all East Hampton residents.”

The number of cases that were resolved in the first half of this year also increased significantly over last year, according to the report, with a total of 818 resolved between January and June 30, 2015, compared to 331 during the same period last year.

Cases involving contractor license violations went from 42 last year to 94, and housing code violation cases increased to 139 from 84.

The number of issues resolved by voluntary compliance, once an alleged code violation was pointed out by town officials, jumped to 421 during the first half of this year, versus 40 in the first two quarters of 2014.

“Code Enforcement has made significant strides to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their operation with support of the supervisor and town board. New reliance on improved technology, such as our online complaint form and vehicle laptop computers, has helped us solve cases more efficiently,” David Betts, the town’s public safety division administrator, said in the press release