[Year-Round Housing Committee] FW: year round housing

[Mlongreene2 at aol.com]

Hi Amy, 
    I have been thinking about your concerns with the  draft survey.  I also 
am nervous that if this does not get a good  response, we are in trouble so 
far as future support from our fellow  citizens.  I was concerned from the 
beginning that the survey wasn't  asking questions relevant to most Long Islanders 
housing needs, unless they can  think of their own kids needs and the other 
young folks coming  along.   We need to get this thing out, but not if it is 
going to fall  flat. You are right, the survey is asking our residents questions 
that are not  necessarily on their radar screens because most "us older folks" 
 already own a home.  If we need to put some more work into the survey, we  
will, even if it delays things a little.  The pressure of the  Comprehensive 
Plan deadlines is the major heat that is pushing us to get this  done now.   
    Katie asked the question at the meeting: "what do  we do next if the 
survey results that come back are not good?"  I do not  know.   What I do know is 
that this is a very open minded community  and most will listen and support 
those things that keep this place  healthy.   Grand examples - the creation of 
the Town, the new library,  money for new rescue boat etc.     WE need  to 
educate folks (our friends and families) as to how  important this is.   I have 
written an article in almost every Long  Islander on this issue for the last 2 
years and have felt a bit like a lone  voice in the wind,   but people may be 
tired of hearing  me!
    I cannot tell you how pleased Chee, Steve Train,  and myself were to have 
you all turn out the other night, as we have been the  only ones at most 
previous meetings.  
 Here is my suggestion to all.  There is a Long Islander  coming out in a 
week or so (Feb. 1 deadline).  Why don't some of you (or  all of you) compose a 
letter urging support for the YRHC to move forward with  planning for a first 
project (whatever we decide eventually that project should  be).  You folks are 
fresh voices on this topic and have good ideas and  stuff to say.   In 
addition, you might turn this letter or article or  whatever you decide to do into 
an information sheet that you can hand to your  friends and family just before 
we mail out the survey and hope that the  straightforward story you have to 
tell about the housing situation here gets us  the favorable response we need to 
go forward.
    I will also be e-mailing you the  draft minutes of our meeting this week 
and will submit them to the Long  Islander as a means of continuing to raises 
peoples' awareness of this  issue.  I think the more we keep this issue out 
there the better people  will begin to understand it.    
    Keep your ideas coming.     Thanks,  Mark
 
 
    
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