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The last time Long Beach rolled out a comprehensive plan to address future development, in 2018, the city ran through about $260,000 in state grants, hired a consulting firm and held 18 public hearings over two years. A draft plan was drawn up. It is now collecting dust. But the city is in the process of trying again. A committee has been appointed, and has been holding meetings since late last year. In a few weeks the group will begin holding listening sessions to get insight and ideas from the public. John McNally, executive assistant to City Manager Donna Gayden, said that a request for proposals would be issued, because the city would need technical assistance to draw up a new comprehensive plan. “There’s money in the budget for this,” McNally said. For the 2018 plan, the city made use of a grant it was awarded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority in 2015. It focused on revamping the oceanfront, the bayfront Continued on page 9
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“I want to say yes, there’s been change,” said Aimee McNicholas, of Lido Beach, who Last June, hundreds of peo- sat drinking coffee with friends ple marched on the Long Beach last Sunday morning at the boardwalk to protest the killing Starbucks across from City of George Floyd in Minneapolis Hall. “But there are still people the month before. with a backwards They carried signs mentality.” and chanted “We McNicholas, a want justice!” and “I for mer BOCES can’t breathe!” They teacher in Freeport were joined by city and Uniondale who officials and memdescribed herself as bers of the City “a very liberal DemCouncil, who ocrat,” said that rescheduled a meetexpanding the eduing so they could cational system take part. would help bring T h e m a rch i n about positive Long Beach was one change. marlENE of thousands that A friend seated took place across HaHitti next to her made the country in the Long Beach clear he was her wake of F loyd’s political polar opporesident death. They were site. “I’m a realist,” held in villages and said the man, who towns across Long Island. declined to give his name. Black and white residents of “Things are never going to Long Beach and nearby areas change.” He compared protestexpressed hope that things ers to “barbarians.” But then he would change, but many see lit- added, “We disagree, but we can tle evidence of that now, a year all sit here together. Nobody has later. Some even said they killed anybody, yet.” believe matters have gotten Marlene Hahitti, who lives in worse since the Floyd protests Manhattan and Long Beach, and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Continued on page 13
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