Richard Murdocco | The Foggiest Idea

#ThinkRegionally Tullio Bertoli: Restoring Our Relevance

Posted by Richard Murdocco | Nov 3, 2011 | Housing

What follows is the Town of Brookhaven’s Planning Commissioner, Tullio Bertoli’s contribution to #ThinkRegionally, the Foggiest Idea’s effort to spread awareness of #SoundPlanning and discuss Long...

A Response to Warren Strugatch’s 10/27/11 Piece: LI has Become the BANANA Republic

Posted by Richard Murdocco | Oct 31, 2011 | Economic Development

The following is a response to a piece by Warren Strugatch entitled LI has Become the BANANA Republic in the Long Island Business News on 10/27/11. His piece can be read here:...

The #ThinkRegionally Movement

Posted by Richard Murdocco | Oct 27, 2011 | Economic Development, Housing

The mission of my writing is to inform the public about the principles of good planning and design on Long Island. Good planning means that plans are based on the best available data-based science and that true community/public...

The Need for Institutional Memory in Planning on Long Island

Posted by Richard Murdocco | Oct 14, 2011 | Economic Development, Environmental Policy

The following post was published to the NYMuniBlog on October 17th, 2011. You can read the post here: http://nymuniblog.com/?p=1615Local government, in this age of voter anger over the issues of partisan gridlock and increasing...

Historic Water Protection on Long Island, and the "Water Worries" Report

Posted by Richard Murdocco | Sep 26, 2011 | Environmental Policy

Linked below is a copy of Water Worries, the report issued in June by environmentalists in response to the draft Suffolk County Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan. I had the pleasure of editing and assembling the...