Vision Long Island

Programs: Outreach, education & advocacysmart growth education and training: delivering over 2,000 presentations to government, business and community groups. Smart growth advocacy and policy development: ongoing advocacy in albany and washington in the areas of transportation, sewer infrastructure, green energy and economic development helping to shape more than 100 code, policy and regulatory changes. Smarttalk - our e-newsletter reaches 25,000 long islanders weekly. Social media efforts include a presence on facebook and twitter. Convening regional leadership and smart growth: hosting the smart growth summit, smart growth awards and special worksessions; organizing the smart growth working group, long island lobby day coalition & long island business council, long island lobby day, and friends of long islandover

community visioning & charrette planning- work in 20 communities on visionings, charrettes & the advancement of community projects. Communities include: hicksville, westbury, baldwin, kings park,riverhead, huntington, mastic/shirley, coram/middle island, rocky point, farmingdale, bay shore, gordon heights, mastic beach, central islip, and lake ronkonkoma/west farmingville. Design and technical assistance: implementing downtown, commercial corridor and infill development plans. Key projects include transit-oriented development, public infrastructure and clean energy. Securing redevelopment & infrastructure investments for long islands downtowns. Comprehensive planning involving all stakeholders to yield consensus-based visions addressing long- and short-term needs of communities and the region as a whole. Land use decisions that incorporate economic development considerations including the need for workforce housing, environmental concerns and a broad array of quality-of-life issues. Compact development that is pedestrian-friendly, reduces automobile dependency and is focused around existing or newly designed transportation centers. Zoning codes, land-use regulations and street design standards that enable and provide adequate incentives to facilitate smart growth development transit-oriented developments advanced with approvals of 1300 more residences to a total of over 11,000 over the last 12 years. Notable successes include projects in farmingdale, central islip, patchogue, westbury, valley stream, mineola, hempstead and great neck. Changing road designs to make our streets safer included the passage of complete streets legislation in suffolk county and nassau county. The smart growth movement pushed new york state to change high-accident roadways of sunrise highway and in nassau toward safer designs. Investments in infrastructure pre- and post-sandy. Support has grown for expanding public and private resources for wastewater, transportation and energy infrastructure. Nearly $1 billion was awarded for direct investment in downtown and infrastructure projects from new york state and federal agencies mostly in the areas of sewers. Expanded presence in albany. The li lobby coalition brought over 90 organizations to albany to ensure a long island voice for a joint small business, civic, environmental and transportation, human service and smart growth agenda. State budget changes included increased transportation funding. Local leadership sought out more smart growth solutions for youth, seniors and small businesses. Local polls showed an increase in support for smart growth projects thanks to favorable consumer preference, demonstration of local successes and ongoing outreach.