The issues

Not anti‑Amazon. Pro‑community. Eight issues, one at a time: the fact from the filing, why it matters, and the question to ask at a hearing. Specific questions tied to impacts are stronger than general opposition — and they build the record for a legal challenge if the Town approves anyway. Deep dives: noise · home values · water · voices from other towns.

Traffic, in the applicant's own study

555 truck trips on an average weekday, 809 in peak season, on two roads that already fail at rush hour. The schedules below are the operator's own numbers; nobody outside the company can check them.

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The study's crash and traffic charts, and the corridor for your town

Crash rate vs. NYSDOT average (crashes per million entering vehicles)

544 collisions at the studied intersections, Jan 1 2023 – Jan 1 2026. Every intersection in the study's own table already exceeds the NYSDOT comparison rate.

Daily trips the facility generates

"Flex" = Amazon Flex delivery drivers' personal cars. Truck figures are one-way trips. Source: TIS Tables A5/A6.

Which road do these trips use to reach your town?

Forest and land

Land cover before and after (acres)

Source: Full EAF land‑cover table. 99.87 acres of forest removed; impervious surface rises from half an acre to 83.8 acres — 61% of the site.

What the EAF says lives there

"Black‑capped Chickadee, White‑Breasted Nuthatch, Pine Warbler, Eastern Wood Peewee, Blue Jay, Downy Woodpecker, Whitetail Deer, Eastern Chipmunk, and Eastern Gray Squirrel." The EAF answers "No" to every wetland question, while the site plan's own General Note 3 says wetland and natural‑resource areas "are still being researched." The Town's application form has "Yes" checked for within 500 feet of a stream, drainage channel or wetland.

This is the largest block of vacant land in the entire Sunrise Highway corridor study area (Suffolk County Planning, 2009). Once cleared, it does not come back.

What clearing it means for the aquifer →