Vision
Long Island
2007 Program Strategies
Smart Growth Leadership, Education and Training
1) Educating Long Island leadership on Smart Growth principles and practices: This includes ongoing outreach and events tailored to specific constituencies such as community, environmental, business and development groups and trade associations, as well as major events like the Smart Growth Summit and the Awards Networking Luncheon.
2) Acting as a media watchdog on Smart Growth and related land use/development issues.
Smart Growth Advocacy and Policy Development
3) Federal and State-level participation includes work with national groups, such as spearheading the New York Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and work with officials, such as efforts with US Representatives to shape federal transportation policy, and ongoing work with the EPA Smart Growth Network. We participate in the NYS Smart Growth Transition Team, the NYS Smart Growth Working Group. We are also involved in efforts to create a transit village program for the MTA, a Safe Streets program for NYS DOT, and in designing Smart Growth incentives and grant programs for the NYS Empire State Development Corp.
4) County efforts include work with the Nassau Business & Community Planning Coalition (a cooperative effort with the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce, the Nassau Village Officials Association, and the Long Island Neighborhood Network) to influence planning decisions for major projects in the Nassau Hub, economic development zones, and major corridors. In Suffolk County efforts are focused on influencing major proposals such as and Yaphank, and other work in cooperation with local civic and business organizations.
5) Town and Village work includes the advancement of comprehensive Smart Growth legislation, green building regulations, and community projects in the towns of Huntington, Islip, Brookhaven, N. Hempstead, Hempstead, Riverhead, Oyster Bay and Southampton.
Community Visioning and Charrette Planning
6) Assisting and monitoring implementation of Smart Growth Community Visions, including Sunnybrook Community in Bay Shore, Gordon Heights, Neighborhood Road in Mastic Beach, Montauk Highway in Mastic and Shirley, Hicksville, Mount Sinai, NYS Rte 25 in Middle Island and Coram, Portion Road in Lake Ronkonkoma, Rocky Point, Tallgrass Golf Course and DelAlio Sod Farm in Shoreham, downtown Farmingdale, the Port Washington Business Improvement District and others.
7) Organizing and coordinating community-based planning workshops or charrettes. Prospects involve communities in ten of Long Islands thirteen Towns.
8) Partnering with regional organizations for a Long Island-wide visioning project.
Design and Technical Assistance
9) Providing design and technical assistance to facilitate Smart Growth throughout Long Island. VISIONs qualifications include Economics, Legal, Project Planning, Architecture, Codes & Regulations, Street Design and Public Outreach.
10) Providing design and planning assistance to aide development of mixed income workforce housing. Partners include housing coalitions, civic organizations, developers and municipal governments. Specific work occurs through our charrettes and through creation of regulations and zoning codes such as recent work in the Port Washington hamlet, the Village of Farmingdale, and the Sunnybrook Community in Bay Shore.
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