Saying "we want to make Nassau County the hub of Smart Growth and mixed use development," Governor David A. Paterson gave a big boost to the subject at a recent Smart Growth Summit in Melville organized by Vision Long Island.
According to coverage in Newsday, the Governor told the gathering that "Smart Growth has to be more than a concept, it has to be a protocol in government."
The article quoted the Governor as saying that a failure to employ Smart Growth principles in the past is part of the reason New York is in dire economic straits currently.
Read the entire Newsday report at: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/paterson-smart-growth-planningpkeyptopstatepeconomy-1.1613612
