Gov. Chris Christie, who has urged towns to publicly shame residents who refuse to sign easements, hailed the decision, as did the League of Municipalities.
Mr. Fulgoni, an amateur saxophonist and a Coltrane buff, said he had just linked the house to Coltrane, and he began urging town officials to designate it a landmark.
Correction: April 29, 2000, Saturday Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about the Rev. Jesse Jackson's visit to Wallingford, Conn., to urge town officials to observe Martin Luther King's Birthday referred incorrectly to a white supremacist's use of a bullhorn.
He once described the proposal for an extension to Britain's National Gallery as "a monstrous carbuncle" and urging town planners to follow the "nature's order," and favor "land-efficient" buildings that "relate to human proportions" — the fact that he lives in a palace seemingly escaping him.
GENERATING both praise and criticism in a suburban New York region with plenty of expensive housing but not much of the budget-friendly kind, a Westchester County Department of Planning report urges towns and villages to use land in existing office parks for new housing -- some of it for moderate-income families.
Some have urged the town to build playing fields in each of the town's hamlets, saying a decentralized solution would be more accessible to families and to youth not of driving age.
Opponents also urged the town to wait for the results of its own study of the town's recreational needs before committing to the Schwenk Farm.
He urged the town to "vigorously" explore other places where recreational needs could be met.
Jürgen Opitz, the mayor of Heidenau, urged the town's 16,000 residents to show solidarity towards the migrants.
A group representing airport neighbors, Citizens for Enforcement of MacArthur Airport Controls, opposes the expansion and has urged the town supervisor, Pete McGowan, to block it.
