BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Limba - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Limba X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://limba.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Limba REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120106T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120106T000000 DTSTAMP:20120106T050000Z CREATED:20120106T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120106T050000Z UID:4495-1325808000-1325808000@limba.net SUMMARY:The newly elected DESCRIPTION:Several elected officials that were victorious in November to discuss the future as they see it URL:https://limba.net/calendar/the-newly-elected/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120113T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120113T000000 DTSTAMP:20120113T050000Z CREATED:20120113T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120113T050000Z UID:4498-1326412800-1326412800@limba.net SUMMARY:Martin Luther King Jr Holiday weekend- No Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/martin-luther-king-jr-holiday-weekend-no-meeting/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120120T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120120T000000 DTSTAMP:20120120T050000Z CREATED:20120120T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T050000Z UID:4496-1327017600-1327017600@limba.net SUMMARY:LIMBA-Taubman Mall at Oyster Bay Property Development DESCRIPTION:  \nDan Perkins working as a consultant to Taubman\, the company that is proposing the Mall at Syosset made a presentation at LIMBA this morning \n  \nTaubman builds malls for high end retailers and they are company that builds specifically to their own standards\, and they enjoy a reputation for quality. They intend to have Nordstom\, Barney’s and other quality retailers in this mall \n  \nThe development they are proposing will have good access to an excellent network of roads. The site was\, in the past contaminated\, but Taubman put the resources into the property to clean it up in 2004. While this has been termed a "Mega-mall" it is only 39 acres\, a fraction of the size of Roosevelt Field\, and 2/3 the size of Walt Whitman Mall. \n  \nAccording to Perkins the property is zoned industrial. Indeed it is surrounded by industrial users\, so the impact on residential users is quite minimal. The commercial use as proposed by Taubman is the issue\, but according to audience member and former utility executive Dr Matt Cordaro\, that site was once considered a prospect for a baseload energy plant. An industrial use of that nature would provide few jobs and would seem to be less desirable than the new proposed use. \n  \nThe mall construction would provide 3500 union scale jobs. The resulting 2000 retail jobs in high value merchandise would be quite high as well. It is expected the salaries would be about $80 million for the people working there. There would be about $5million dollars in tax revenues paid in local real estate taxes\, and there would be little or no stress on the local school system. The presenter made many good points including Taubman’s reputation of being a good neighbor. \n  \nWe at LIMBA are fortunate to have many experts in various disciplines. The following piece was contributed by another LIMBA member\, traffic and planning expert Arvind Vora. \n"Zoning laws have basic purpose of maximum utilization of land for the well being of the people in that jurisdiction\, i.e. Village or Town. For the health of our body well balanced diet is necessary so is the balance use of land for the well being of our communities. For proper use of land master plan is devised and every generation or so it is updated to accommodate changes in our lifestyle and changes in the society. \nThe land where Upscale/Boutique Mall is proposed is currently zoned as an industrial use. Person of Taubman’s stature knows very well that buyer of property undertakes a substantial risk if contemplated purpose of the land is other than industrial. Community would have no ground to oppose any industrial use but they are well within their rights to oppose change of zoning. One can think of many creative industrial usages where traffic mitigations\, community/school opposition and host of other factors commonly labeled NIMBYISM do not play a role. Newly invented chip by IBM or host of high tech product can be manufactured here. \n  \nAs to traffic the land is bounded by best possible transportation network i.e. highways & railroads. Both Northern Parkway and Long Island Expressway are the best possible roadways Long Island has seen and will ever see in the near future. Both roadways carry traffic in excess of design capacity (happens to be the case for all limited access highways in and around NYC.)We traffic engineers are capable of finding mitigating measures but at what cost? Who are the best judges: \nResidents who have invested their life; elected officials\, in power for a short duration; investors\, whose main goal is to increase profits; soft power professionals be they planners\, traffic engineers\, PR \, consultants and so on. \nConstruction jobs\, tax revenues and permanent jobs will be created even with proper industrial usage or for that matter any usage." \n  \nArvind Vora\, a retired traffic Engineer with 40 years of traffic experience on Long Island has not represented any party associated with the Mall in the past or at present. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/limba-taubman-mall-at-oyster-bay-property-development/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120127T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120127T000000 DTSTAMP:20120127T050000Z CREATED:20120127T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120127T050000Z UID:4477-1327622400-1327622400@limba.net SUMMARY:LIMBA-Dr Pearl Kamer at Farmingdale College\, Knapp Hall DESCRIPTION:Today’s experience at LIMBA was not only an opportunity to learn more about Long Island\, it was also an opportunity for students to see what we do at LIMBA. This meeting was held on the Farmingdale Campus in the University Club. The students in the room were encouraged to participate in the Q&A portion and they did\, enthusiastically. \n  \nDr Pearl Kamer\, Chief Economist for the Long Island Association and President of the Farmingdale College Council was our speaker this morning. \n  \nPearl began with optimistic news about the national economy. The percentage of those without jobs has gone down. The number of people counted among the unemployed had gone down nationwide. The operative word here is "counted". We no longer count those people who have surrendered and are no longer looking for work. In addition to that we give equal status of a job that pays half as much as another job lost the same weight. So if you lose 1\,000 jobs averaging $70\,000 and replace those 1.000 jobs with ones that average $35\,000 your stats will look the same\, but the effect on the economy will be significantly different. It gets worse; part time work is also included. In other words we are getting slightly better\, but we are not "out of the woods" \n  \nDr Kamer addressed the European sovereign risk problem. She is wary of the ill effects of another European collapse. It could happen that there may be trouble ahead \n  \nShe then spoke about the housing crises. She covered the causes. Banks made obtaining a mortgage insanely easy\, and borrowers were irresponsible and unrealistic about their ability to pay. The overhang of foreclosures continue largely because banks are unwilling to make those reductions of principal that would facilitate some people staying in their homes. Others that are in even worse financial shape\, couldn’t hold on to their homes no matter how accommodating the bank became. So the slough out will be long and costly to the society in general. Home values on ALL homes will remain weak during this readjustment. \n  \nManufacturing was another issue handled by the speaker. Manufacturing has been in a long decline for about 5 decades and now comprises about 10% of the national GDP. That could rise with the advent of highly specialized manufacturing. The vocational schools and community colleges are already teaching many of the skills that will be needed. Again education is a long-term commitment with a long-term pay-off. \n  \nWhen we wrapped up the session the students understood the concept of shaping public policy by participating in the discussion with policy makers. The conversation around the room after the meeting convinced me that this was a worthy experiment. Dr Keen\, Farmingdale’s president\, participated in the program and he agreed. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/limba-dr-pearl-kamer-at-farmingdale-college-knapp-hall/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR