Long Island is All Clammed Up
It is important to remember that many of the land use issues discussed each week have real impacts to the lives of Long Islanders, and failure to heed economic and environmental warning signs can lead to real consequences. If we fail to protect our water system, the...
Cause…and Effect
In a recent LIBN Op-ed, Michael Watt describes “urban nodes”, a planning concept traditionally attributed to Kevin Lynch’s Image of the City, which broke down the most important elements of a city. According to Lynch, a node is a main focal point within the area....
Press Release Celebrating the New Foggiest Idea
Long Island Planner Launches TheFoggiestIdea.Org New site offers Long Island residents accessible, approachable information on land use and development processes SYOSSET, NY – If you live, work, develop, protect or represent Long Island, www.TheFoggiestIdea.org is...
An Expensive Mistake
Elected officials, bureaucrats and self-proclaimed “advocates” line up- their prop shovels ready. The event is covered by the press. During the stump speeches, which can be given by even a remote connection to the project, words like “hope”, “revitalization” and...
Sondock Is Wrong On Water Protection
Recently, Clifford Sondock wrote a letter to the editor in Newsday regarding Long Island's groundwater. The letter can be read below in italics, as well as here on Newsday.com. My response follows. Why the alarm over Long Island's water supply? There is no water...
Water Worries? Not With Sound Planning
The following was written for LIBN's Young Island: There has been much talk in the press and social media about in recent weeks about “What’s In the Water”, protecting our sole-source aquifer system and Superfund sites. It’s enough to make your head spin. Water...
Here’s the Pitch
The following was written for LIBN: Recently, I wrote a piece on Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s Connect Long Island proposal, which would deploy buses on critical north/south corridors and employment hubs. The project, if implemented, would be a regional...
Newsday Letter: Stewardship of LI water quality
The following was published on page A37 of Newsday on September 16th, 2013. Recognition should be given to the environmental community for its effort to bring awareness to Nassau and Suffolk counties' declining water quality ["New plan to cut nitrogen pollution,"...
New York is Still Here
The following was written for Long Island Business News. You can read the original here. It has been 12 years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. In those 12 years, downtown Manhattan, as well as New York City as a whole, has been reshaping itself in ways...
Think Regionally
Recently, it was announced that the Long Island Regional Planning Council (LIRPC) was given a lifeline by New York State and both Nassau and Suffolk Counties in the form of grant funding. This is good news for the region.While the LIRPC is not a perfect entity, its...
