Republican lawmakers tell McLoganTV that Gov. Kathy Hochul's housing plan in her new budget would strip them of local zoning control, and they are adamantly opposed.
"We don't want Hochul control, we want local control of all new zoning," said Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin.
Hochul wants to build 800,000 new homes across the state and require Long Island to add 3% housing stock in three years, and to rezone half-mile radius areas around LIRR stations allowing 50 housing units per acre. Hochul, during a walking tour of Patchogue, says a butcher told her"Governor, governor I support your housing plan. Three percent growth means more people coming here, more money for my business.
"They have a paid fire department with the FDNY. On Long Island, we have volunteers that are already overstrained," said Huntington Town Supervisor Ed Smyth. Pilar Moya-Mancera of Housing Help says without affordable housing, thousands of Long Islanders have been sent packing.
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