I lived in Nassau County for 20+ years in NY-03, Santos’ district. Governor Hochul will never accomplish her plan in that county. Maybe some small success in Suffolk County. The property values are too high for the owners to allow the planning proposed.

This is my practical response. My progressive perspective supports the Governor’s ideas. It just won’t fly on Long Island.

last year. Which included granting residential permits for sheds and unattached garages.

I live in an apartment neighborhood and am all for denser housing, and I happily voted for her even after her nutty plan, but if it's the same plan she proposed last year, it should be squashed. Again.

yet another way to wipe out the farms and bring NIMBY to a head.

It's also a good way to further wipe out the Pine Barrens.

Maybe if we could find a way to build up further the built up areas, but that would pressure everyone else.

is not just property values, but an overtaxed aquifer system. For decades it has been abused, contaminated, parts have infiltrates of brackish water.

Suffolk county where they might have room for more development, also does not have sewers. The area relies on septic tanks. Sewage treatment facilities, infrastructure would need to be built up, which would take years, if not decades to build out.

The LIE (Long Island Expressway) is the main road off the Island.

I know, b/c in 1985, I was on it for five hours with my mother, trying to beat Hurricane Gloria, whose eye was due to hit where my mother lived. If you have ever gone to the Hamptons for a summer weekend or vacation, you budget at least two hours on the LIE.

More housing, esp. on the eastern end of Long Island, would actually ruin local commerce as roads would be clogged, even without a hurricane.