Featured in LIBN: Court Upholds Building Ban on Suffolk County Farmland
The following Letter to the Editor was published in the October 14-20 edition of Long Island Business News. The State Supreme Court's ruling accurately captures the original intent of the PDR law, which sought to preserve not only farmland for public benefit, but the...
Public Comment: Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection’s State of the Aquifer Report, October 13, 2016
The following was submitted to the Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection on October 13, 2016. My name is Richard Murdocco. I am the founder and publisher of The Foggiest Idea, and am land use columnist who writes professionally on regional real estate...
Is the White House Right to Tell Local Zoning Boards to Be Constructive?
The following was published in the Long Island Press on October 10, 2016. You can read the original here. In the heated debate about whether or not local zoning codes are choking us, New Age urbanists who propose environmentally friendly dense developments have new...
The Foggiest Idea Quoted on TheStreet: U.S. Home Prices up 4% in ’16, But Are Clouds Brewing for ’17?
The following was originally published on TheStreet on September 28, 2016. You can read the original piece here. Another big issue - home sales in highly-populated areas of the country may be muted due to solid price increases, as owners look to rebuild equity....
Long Island Pulse Magazine: Does Heartland Town Square Beat Too Proud?
The following was written for Long Island Pulse Magazine, and was published online on September 28, 2016, and published in the October 2016 print edition. You can read the original online version here. Of all the mixed-use real estate projects slated to be built on...
Featured in Crain’s New York: Could West Side Project Reprise the Glory of the Old Penn Station?
The following was published as a Letter to the Editor in Crain's New York on September 28, 2016. You can read the original here. To the Editor: Regarding your piece on the latest evolution of the ongoing Penn Station/Farley Post Office project: I appreciated the...
BREAKING: MTA Announces New LIRR Station for Hicksville, Capacity Upgrades for Jamaica Station
The following was published in the Long Island Press as a reported piece on September 21, 2016. You can read the original here. Melville, NY: Long Island's commuters can expect to see some modernization efforts at both the Long Island Railroad's Hicksville and Jamaica...
The Foggiest Idea Quoted in LifeZette: House Hunting and Health — Inseparable
The following article was originally published in LifeZette, and was written by Pat Barone on September 2, 2016. You can read the entire piece here. ... Their research found that an increase in walkability score from 60 to 80 in San Francisco increased a comparable...
Can Government Clean Up Funky Lake Ronkonkoma?
The following was published in the Long Island Press on August 29, 2016. You can read the original here. This piece was featured by the Regional Plan Association's "What We're Reading" alongside work from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, WNYC, and elsewhere...
Pushy Developers and Irrational Communities Put Long Island’s Future at Risk
The following was published in the Long Island Press on August 1st, 2016. You can read the original here. Some observers seem to think that the affordable housing situation here on Long Island is all doom and gloom because developers just can’t get the projects they...
