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Great, all the loud abnoxious rude people who don't care about their neighborhoods the same people I left Brooklyn to get away from can all be here in just 20MINS!!!!! GREAT!!!!
happycamper5,
I can certainly understand and respect your desire to live your life and raise your children in a suburban environment. But not dealing with the very real issues that are already on our doorstep and effecting the island as a whole is risky imo. Consider...
Proaction just might have prevented eastern Suffolk as being the last refuge of the 'LI that was.' Proaction might have limited the unchecked sprawl and preserved the open spaces and natural beauty, reduced personal and commercial vehicle emissions, improved the area as a potential home for high tech businesses and their good paying jobs. The list of possibilities is nearly endless.
Reaction is what caused the problems we see, and live with, today.
sorry pal this is how LI can grow. I wish the days of 100k homes were still here to, but such is life. The best way for eastern suffolk to develop is a high speed train. We don't even need high rise condos... a high speed train from eastern LI will allow many people who work in manhattan to afford a house on eastern LI without a deathly commute.
It's how LI can grow, but when does it end? Where does it stop? When Brooklyn & Queens is built up like Manhattan, Nassau becomes Brooklyn, and Suffolk turns to Queens?
Once the all of the land is developed, there is no place to go but up.
A high speed train into NYC is going to increase the value of homes out east. The fact that it currently is a long commute to NYC helps keep the prices down in some areas (exceptions being the Hamptons and other tony areas.)
It's how LI can grow, but when does it end? Where does it stop? When Brooklyn & Queens is built up like Manhattan, Nassau becomes Brooklyn, and Suffolk turns to Queens?
Once the all of the land is developed, there is no place to go but up.
A high speed train into NYC is going to increase the value of homes out east. The fact that it currently is a long commute to NYC helps keep the prices down in some areas (exceptions being the Hamptons and other tony areas.)
It's how LI can grow, but when does it end? Where does it stop? When Brooklyn & Queens is built up like Manhattan, Nassau becomes Brooklyn, and Suffolk turns to Queens?
Once the all of the land is developed, there is no place to go but up.
A high speed train into NYC is going to increase the value of homes out east. The fact that it currently is a long commute to NYC helps keep the prices down in some areas (exceptions being the Hamptons and other tony areas.)
Why not? If Queens and Brooklyn becoming what Manhattan has become is what the masses want, then why not? It's called expansion on GDP, and with all that expansion comes more jobs and more money for everyone to spend. Yes, some of the cheaper places to live in suffolk will become more expensive, but then suffolk county will grow as a region with more jobs and more money. Of course many people would like suffolk to remain wide open, but there's too much opportunity cost. What would you prefer, to remain wide open and less wealthy, or populated and more wealthy? The trend is more population and it is going to happen whether you like it or not. Why not prepare for it and this way we can be more efficient and not have so much tax waste? And those people who like farms can move out to the midwest where they can buy a large plot of land and sit on it for as long as they would like.
I am hopeful that by the time eastern suffolk becomes uniondale there will be another planet for me to move!!
The point of it is to learn from your mistakes. Development does not have to end with a product that looks like central Nassau. A less car-based planning perspective goes a long way.
uniondale? are you kidding me? believe me there are places in eastern suffolk that make uniondale look like utopia
Like where, for example?
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