Public Comments: Gyrodyne/Flowerfield DEIS, January 2020
The following comments were formally submitted on January 7th, 2020 to members of the Town of...
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Tag: Brookhaven
Is Now The Right Time for a Convention Center in Suffolk County?
The following was exclusively published by The Foggiest Idea on November 18, 2019. Interested in...
Read MoreLatest Efforts to Clean Up Polluted Waters May Be A Drop in the Bucket
The following was published exclusively on The Foggiest Idea on January 18, 2019. Want to support The Foggiest Idea’s award-winning coverage? Click here. But If We Do Nothing, Region Will Be Up A Creek Without a Paddle By...
Read MoreSuffolk Shouldn’t Have to Chop Down Trees to Let Solar Panels Spring Up
The following was written for the Long Island Press, and published on May 25, 2016. You can read the original here. A troubling new trend in Suffolk County is pitting environmentalists against civic groups: clear cutting...
Read MoreWishing is No Substitute for Planning
The following was written for the Long Island Press in April 2015. You can read the original here. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s Connect Long Island idea has become a project that relies upon assumptions instead of...
Read MoreYip Yip Yaphank
From an urban-planning standpoint, the Town of Brookhaven is one of the most interesting municipalities on Long Island. Standing on the fringe of Long Island’s suburban/rural divide, the township contains some of our region’s...
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Nemo Found Us and the System Failed
An empty Long Island Expressway, westbound, near Exit 56 on 2/10/13The following was published on...
Read MoreThose Who Can, Build…Those Who Can’t, Criticize
The following was published by Times Beacon Record Media on September 26th, 2012.You can read the online piece here. The hamlets of Stony Brook and Setauket are not known for fostering a “town and gown” relationship...
Read MoreWhy the Stony Brook TOD is Important
The following was published on Three Village Patch on 9/7/2012. Thanks to Christine Sampson, editor for publishing the piece and supporting @TheFoggiestIdea from the beginning. To read this piece on Patch, click here.The hamlets...
Read MoreNewsday: Twitter Meets the Public Square
The following op-ed was published in the June 26th, 2012 edition of Newsday on page A34. You can read the original here. BY RICH MURDOCCO Social media is more than just a tool for sharing photos of a night out or a passing fad...
Read More#ThinkRegionally- Bertoli: Returning to Humanistic Planning
What follows is an entry written by Tullio Bertoli, Commissioner of Planning in the Town of Brookhaven. This is Bertoli’s second entry on The Foggiest Idea. RETURNING TO HUMANISTIC PLANNINGAnd the sublime comes downTo the...
Read MoreThe Importance of Integrating Social Media in Land Use Planning
The following piece was published on Three Village Patch (the post can be seen here: http://threevillage.patch.com/blog_posts/the-importance-of-integrating-social-media-in-planning ) and is being published on the NYMuniBlog. The...
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