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A 60-story tower in the heart of Nassau County, mechanical windmills anchored just off-shore of one of the best beaches in the world.\u00a0 Farmland, or what remains of it, razed, and developed into stripmalls, townhouses packed in like sardines or oversized, overpriced minimansion happening or proposed.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
Wake up Long Island.\u00a0 Pretty soon you\u2019ll be living an area that starts to look an awful lot like the heart of Brooklyn or Queens where dwellings and industrial buildings cohabitate the same neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
I am just old enough to remember the many small- and medium-size open spaces that were so characteristic of Long Island.\u00a0 Many of those spaces were family farms.\u00a0 Understandably, as the economy changed and the farms were no longer viable businesses, they passed into the hands of people and developers who saw a different value to the land.\u00a0 Regrettably, one by one, the greenbelts disappeared.\u00a0 Thousands of transplants from the city and elsewhere clamored to occupy the housing that sprouted up.<\/p>\n
A look back will give you a hint at what the future holds. Think five, ten, fifteen, twenty years back and then what has changed.\u00a0Will you still want to live here if it continues?<\/p>\n
Unchecked development, especially deep money, special interest projects will eventually destroy the look and feel of Long Island.\u00a0 And as the space to perform these seemingly progressive developments dwindles the powerful and political types will start to look at areas and neighborhoods and possibly whole towns that can be redone for greater economic gain.\u00a0 Do the words \u201ceminent domain\u201d mean anything to you?<\/p>\n
There needs to be a theoretical STOP sign installed in the building departments and zoning boards from the city line to Montauk.\u00a0Long Island is unique in terms of choices for living and recreation.\u00a0 Millions of tourists are returning to our shores.\u00a0 Without the abundant activities, especially the shoreline, who will want to spend time here.<\/p>\n
I am not against progress. The world has always moved on.\u00a0 My message is, \u201cbe careful with the decisions that dramatically affect the Long Island characteristics that have served us so well.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A 60-story tower in the heart of Nassau County, mechanical windmills anchored just off-shore of one of the best beaches in the world.\u00a0 Farmland, or what remains of it, razed, and developed into stripmalls, townhouses packed in like sardines or oversized, overpriced minimansion happening or proposed. What\u2019s next? Wake up Long Island.\u00a0 Pretty soon you\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\n