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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...

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