A Series of Rants
The following was published in Long Island Business News' Young Island Recently, there have been a number of items in the news that I feel warrant discussion. Rather than pick just one, however, the following is a series of rants on the various land use issues of the...
The Foxes Are Watching the Hen House
The following was published on LIBN's Young Island: It was very exciting to read that the Long Island Regional Planning Council (LIRPC), an entity that I often criticize for not actually getting anything done, started up a website to nurture public input on ways that...
Thanks to Suburbia, the Car Can Never be the Next Cigarette
The following was published on TheTruthAboutCars.com on 5/10/13.I have two interests that are often in conflict with one another. One is my love of the automobile. The second is urban planning. Recently, I was reading a response piece to the notion that the car will...
Why I Write
The goal of my writing to put both my education and experience in land use to work. I feel that Long Island's residents are the most important resource this region has. Long Island has complex challenges that unfortunately, have been the status-quo for decades. I feel...
Connect Long Island: Right Project, Wrong Sales Pitch
The following was published by Long Island Business News on May 1st, 2013:I’ve been hearing a lot about Connect Long Island, County Executive Steve Bellone’s plan to tie current and proposed transit-oriented development projects and downtowns together through the...
Millennials and Driving
The following was published on 4/25/13 on Long Island Business NewsI’ve seen articles from a diverse set of sources ranging from the New York Times to new-agey New Urbanist publications speculating why young professionals aren’t buying cars, but the most concise...
Tullio Bertoli: Principles for New Suburbia
Excerpt from:PRINCIPLES FOR NEW SUBURBIA by Tullio BertoliA Meditative Manual for Sustainable Humanistic Planning"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."(Native American Proverb)OUR PLANNING MUST BE BORN out of an analytic...
Think Big
Long Island has a few development concepts that just won’t go away. These concepts go beyond the generalities of “smart growth”, “walkable” and “downtown-feel”. These are huge and lumbering big-picture projects with regional significance that have been kicking around...
You Can’t Build Your Way Out of an Economic Hole…But You Can Zone It
The following piece was published on Long Island Business New’s Young Island on 4/2/13:The following is the conversation held at every regional summit on Long Island:Advocate: Let’s keep our young people from leaving! There’s a…Brain Drain!Public: How do we stop...
Response Letter to the Cleaner, Greener Long Island Plan
The following was sent on 3/28/13 in response to New York State's call for public input on the Cleaner, Greener Communities Plan for Long Island. It was submitted via the State's online comment portal. Hello,My name is Richard Murdocco, and I am writing to provide...
