04.15.2018 Columns Column: Victory for farmland preservation in Suffolk Suffolk County’s visionary farmland preservation program has just achieved a triumph. The state’s Appellate Division last month rejected a ruling by a state Supreme Court justice in 2016 that...
06.13.2017 Government County urges state to pass law clarifying farmland program Suffolk County lawmakers are urging the passage of state legislation that would permit development for agricultural uses on protected farmland.
02.08.2017 Agriculture Farmers urge county to pass law to sidestep court ruling More than a dozen farmers, most from the East End, spoke at a Tuesday public hearing in Hauppauge in support of a proposed Suffolk County law that would sidestep...
01.10.2017 Agriculture Suffolk drafting law to help farmers sidestep court ruling Jeff Rottkamp, owner of Fox Hollow Farm in Baiting Hollow, had been preparing to join Suffolk County’s farmland preservation program. But those plans changed in September, when a New...
10.07.2016 Agriculture Court ruling: Development exceptions not allowed on preserved farmland Special permits and so-called hardship exceptions, which allowed farmers to develop preserved farmland, have been deemed illegal, according to a New York State Supreme Court ruling.
03.19.2015 Columns Amper: Expand preservation fund to tackle water quality On April 2, East Enders will celebrate an important milestone: The Community Preservation Fund will have generated over $1 billion and preserved more than 10,000 acres of open space...
09.17.2014 Environment County water deal to go to voters in November County legislators voted overwhelmingly last week to let Suffolk voters decide the fate of a plan that would eventually replenish the Drinking Water Protection Program, which has so far...
11.27.2013 Government Court case over county budget looming Suffolk County could find itself being called to court as early as this week, as environmental groups consider if and when to take legal action after the county officially...
06.27.2013 Columns Guest Column: Let’s keep on saving Suffolk’s open space Two weeks ago, freshman Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski introduced legislation to alter Suffolk’s Drinking Water Protection Program to favor farmland preservation over open space. It was a dumb-headed...
06.19.2013 Government Enviros protest farmland preservation bill Environmental advocates lined up Tuesday to speak out against a bill proposed in the Suffolk County Legislature that’s designed to revise the county’s land preservation program. The bill, proposed...
