On March 26, 2009, the Long Island 2035 Visioning Initiative held a visioning workshop at the Melville Marriott in Melville, NY. Included as part of the Long Island Regional Planning Council’s first annual Planning Summit, the workshop was to designed to bring together leaders from different sectors to articulate alternative scenarios for how Long Island should develop over the next 25 years. Participants included a diverse cross-section of over 100 elected officials, civic, business and environmental leaders from across the island.

Participants worked in thirteen groups to develop island- wide strategies for accommodating projected residential and employment growth on Long Island, while considering the many important values that development patterns will influence, including economic prosperity, social equity and environmental quality.