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Invite you to a forum and discussion
TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS FOR LONG ISLAND: TOWARDS TRANSIT-CENTERED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Thursday, September 20, 2007
9:00 -11:30
Hofstra University Business Development Center, Axinn Library
(See below for directions)
Please RSVP to this invitation to the Long Island Community Foundation by leaving a phone message at 516-348-0575 x601, or by sending an email to responses@licf.org.
Transportation is a major challenge for Long Island employers and their employees, and congestion a huge and growing problem for residents and workers alike. New leadership at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is looking at transportation solutions in fresh and creative ways, exploring opportunities to enhance service and improve stations, but also to invest in strategies that bring jobs and housing closer together, and reduce vehicle miles traveled.
Long Island offers a laboratory for testing new ideas – such as transit-centered community development – borrowing a page from New Jersey’s highly successful Transit Village playbook. As community leaders look toward transit centers for development and congestion relief, it is essential that we develop solutions that serve people of all income levels, not just the most fortunate among us.
Please join civic, nonprofit, and government leaders in a community forum for a discussion about the connections between job mobility, housing, economic development, congestion relief, and transportation investments, and the opportunities that new approaches and strategies could bring to Long Island.
Speakers:
Mark Stout, Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Transportation
Elliot G. Sander, Executive Director & CEO, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Respondents:
Connie Kepert, Councilwoman, Town of Brookhaven
Jack Martins, Mayor, Village of Mineola
Moderator: Joye Brown, Columnist, Newsday
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New Jersey’s Transit Village program provides technical assistance and a modest amount of state funding to municipalities interested in promoting higher density, mixed-use development around train and bus stations, including an affordable housing element. It is significantly over-subscribed, with many more city and town applicants each year than the state can accept. It is one model that could be adopted in Long Island and other parts of the MTA service region.
Please RSVP to this invitation to the Long Island Community Foundation by leaving a phone message at 516-348-0575 x601, or by sending an email to responses@licf.org.
Directions to Hofstra’s Business Development Center:
The Business Development Center is located in the Axinn Library on the Hofstra University Campus, Hempstead, NY 11549, 11549. Main line: 516-463-6600.
For directions to the campus by car or public transportation, please click on this link: http://www.hofstra.edu/About/InfoCenter/info_hofdirect.html
This forum was organized in partnership with the One Region Funders’ Group. The One Region Funders’ Group is a collaboration of funders from New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey learning and working together to support transportation planning and reform in the Tri-State region.