Hempstead Supervisor-Elect Laura Gillen said she was looking forward to working with Nassau County Executive-Elect Laura Curran to bring back downtown Baldwin and others. He also addressed the growth and parking issues in downtown Huntington as well as the community’s view on new developments throughout the Town. He wants to bring more people into the discussion about development so that people aren’t surprised. Huntington Supervisor-Elect Chad Lupinacci spoke about the vibrant community that Huntington Station once was and how he will work to help bring back the downtown. “The region isn’t failing, look at each individual location.” TOD is a way to make your individual community sustainable, but it also impacts the whole region. Mayor Peter Cavallaro of Westbury discussed the 800 multifamily residential units that have been built within five blocks of the rail road. Now the village has a lively, walkable downtown, all as a result of TOD. There used to be 26 empty stores in the downtown, then after construction began on several multifamily projects near the train station, 24 of the 26 have been filled. Mayor Ralph Eckstrand of Farmingdale stated that “Transit oriented development is our best friend, it redeveloped our downtown”.
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Noting that the Town of Babylon is over 98% developed, “We need to be creative and rethink how we redevelop”. He believed that “Our efforts towards economic redevelopment was a contributing factor to Moody’s triple A rating”. Some of their achievements include 260 new residential units in the Wyandanch Rising project, Wellwood Ave corridor project, and others. The Town of Babylon was recently upgraded to a AAA bond rating, for the first time in the Town’s history.
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Supervisor Richard Schaffer of the Town of Babylon replied that they have already made progress it’s called transit oriented development. She then noted that Long Island will die unless we have diversity in housing and asked the Supervisors to comment on what they are doing to address this and other issues. Joye Brown of Newsday, who has moderated this panel for 10 years, began the breakfast panel by remarking how encouraging it was to see three new supervisor elects on the dais. Cavallaro and Village of Farmingdale Mayor Ralph Eckstrand. The State of the Towns and Villages panel featured Town of Babylon Supervisor Rich Schaffer, Town of Islip Supervisor Angie Carpenter, Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino, Town of Hempstead Supervisor-Elect Laura Gillen, Town of Huntington Supervisor-Elect Chad Lupinacci, Village of Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri, Village of Westbury Mayor Peter I.
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He closed his remarks by inviting up Marissa Shorenstein from AT&T New York who shared their firm commitment to local communities during opening remarks. He continued by thanking the more than 60 sponsors, 45 board members, and staff then acknowledged the elected officials in the room. Vision Long Island Director Eric Alexander touched on some of the recent transit-oriented development projects throughout Long Island in 40 communities with many having representatives in the room. Hundreds of business and civic leaders as well as elected officials and designees from all levels of government listened on as Vision’s Co-Chair Bob Fonti addressed the crowd, leading with the Pledge of Allegiance. The 16th Annual Smart Growth Summit kicked off last week just after 8am with a crowd of over 600 attendees filling the Grand Ballroom at the Crest Hollow County Club for the Morning Plenary Session. With over 1,300 business, community, and government leaders participating, this year’s event provided 16 engaging workshops, excellent speakers, timely topics, great networking and an important message for Long Island on downtowns, housing, environmental & transportation infrastructure and jobs among many others. More than 1,300 Long Islanders join together to addressĭowntown revitalization and infrastructure! Thank you to everyone who made this year’s event so successful! Vision Long Island 2017 Smart Growth Summit Recapįor those of you who were unable to make it to Vision Long Island’s 16th Annual Smart Growth event, please take the time to read through our recap of the event.