Ambitious Renovation Plan Moves Ahead at Devon | The East Hampton Star

Despite holdouts, there are comfortable majorities on both the East Hampton Town Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals that favor allowing the 108-year-old Devon Yacht Club, at 300 Abram’s Landing Road in Amagansett, to proceed with its plans to renovate and reconstruct its buildings and amenities. Aside from the Wainscott Commercial Center’s quest to subdivide the 70-acre “sand pit” at the entrance to the town, Devon’s is the largest application in front of the planning board. It has taken over three years to get the club this close to what’s considered a “complete application,” ready for a detailed environmental review and public hearings. “We’re not quite there yet,” said Ed Krug, chairman of the planning board, at its May 21 meeting, “but we’re getting close.” Mr. Krug has called it a “model application” in the context of coastal retreat. “We’re trying to see if we can get through this process sometime this fall, because it’s going to take about a year for the club to arrange for the construction,” said Richard Warren of Inter-Science, speaking for Devon. Construction at the 13.82-acre site overlooking Gardiner’s Bay will occur in two phases, during successive off-seasons. The planning board has now
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