Southold's zoning proposal could also complicate the federal government's plans to sell the island.
WSJ: Long Island Town Lays Strategy to Protect Plum Island
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"There's a sense of disbelief that it could ever happen, " said Louise Harrison, a conservation biologist who lives in the Southold hamlet of Peconic.
WSJ: Long Island Town Lays Strategy to Protect Plum Island
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Southold officials crafted the two zoning designations from scratch and tailored them to a rare piece of land in the region that had no zoning rules at all.
WSJ: Long Island Town Lays Strategy to Protect Plum Island