But these days Mr. Hickman is getting deposits on his planned 600-home Morgan Creek Preserve development even though he hasn't built a single street, let alone a house there.
Because Long Island's remaining farmland is valuable, it needs to be preserved for development?
Local attractions include the Valley Gardens and the extensive common, called the Stray, permanently preserved from development by act of Parliament.
"But at the very least, it will be preserved from development and the commercial operations will be overseen by the state".
Eager to preserve such development potential, the city had proposed an approach under which the federal agency would allow the polluters to pay for the cleanup voluntarily.
Can we preserve the development model in which certain nations pile up giant reserves and park them in the U.S.? Until these and other issues are addressed, the global markets will lack confidence in asset values.
A stretch of this northern New York highlands larger than Manhattan and the Bronx combined will remain forever wild, open to the public for recreation but preserved from development, under an agreement reached by Gov. George E. Pataki, the Nature Conservancy and a timber company.
So it does not surprise or bother Richard Rottkamp that his family's farm has been listed as one of about 40 large properties in Nassau and Suffolk that the Long Island Regional Planning Board wants to see acquired by a government agency or a charitable trust, so that it can be preserved from development.
The A.P.A. law calls for precious natural resources of the park to be preserved and development of its private lands carefully planned to ensure compatibility with the adjacent, publicly owned Forest Preserve, which our state constitution says must be "forever wild".
This then indicates that as long as pore-dominated porosity is preserved, the development of deep geothermal resources may be possible.
Phyllis Marchand Phyllis Marchand, mayor of Princeton Township, characterized the township's purchase of the property as a "win-win situation" that provides the municipality with needed recreational facilities and a large parcel of land preserved from development.
