Tag: growth
Featured in Newsday: How to View More People Exiting Long Island
The following Letter to the Editor was published in Newsday on March 5th, 2024. You can read the...
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Featured in Newsday: Pandemic’s Impacts on Development Still Unknown
The following Letter to the Editor was published in Newsday on October 4th, 2020. You can read the...
Read MoreDevelopers Need Community Engagement, Not PR
The following was written for the Long Island Press as a counter to Jaci Clement’s op-ed entitled “Developers Need to Become Media Savvy” in Long Island Business News. You can the original here. When it comes...
Read MorePols Should Remember Developing and Planning Differ
The following was written for the Long Island Press. The original can be seen here. The recently announced creation of a regional planning alliance between the Town of Islip, Town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County could mark a...
Read MoreLetter to the Editor – Newsday: Solutions for a Costly Long Island
The following appeared in the May 3, 2015 edition of Newsday on page A33. The original can be read here. The relationship between land use and income growth is strong, especially as our region continues to replace our former...
Read MoreLong Island Suburbs: How Planners Should Treat Age Spots
The following was published on New Geography on 11/11/2014. You can find the piece here. The piece was adapted from my recent LIBN piece “Elephants in the Room”. Long Island is the birthplace of suburbia, from...
Read MoreIt’s Academic
Recently, Vision Long Island shared an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal on Long Island’s blossoming downtown redevelopment scene. In their post, the nonprofit commented that ”some of the regional commentary...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreA Sense of Optimism
Long Island is unnecessarily frustrating to all who live and work here. Each group has a unique set of frustrations that amounts to different Long Island.For developers, their projects get caught up in a boondoggle of red tape,...
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