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- Who am I
Sue Hansen
- Why I’m here
Grass root campaign to implement 1 idea at Calverton Enterprise
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- Job creation
- Generation of tax revenues
- Stabilization of local property taxes
- Preservation of the quality of life for residents of the community
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- 1999 Zoning:
- Industrial (700 acres)
- Recreational (2223 acres)
- 423 acres Pine Barrons
not subject to development
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- Industrial 700 acres
Burman Property 492
small business incubator
50
(open) 158
- Recreational 2223
acres
Pine Barrons 423
runways/buffer 293
Navy 354
water ski park 45
town park 62
(open) 1046
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- Possible rezoning:
(recreational to industrial):
350 acres
100-acre commercial office park
- RFPs
hotel/conference center (20+acres)
golf course/residential (140-400 acres)
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- Industrial 1150 acres
Burman Property
492
small business incubator
50
commercial office park
100
(open) 508
- Recreational 1773 acres
Pine Barrons 423
runways/buffers
293
Navy 354
water ski park
45
town park 62
hotel/conference center
20
golf-course/residential
400
(open) 196
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- it’s a gift - land belongs to Riverhead
- “Invest in land - they’re not making any more of it” - Will Rogers
- Something the vast majority of community would enjoy
- A Legacy for our children
- Educational and recreational
- Consistent with the Reuse Plan
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- Similar to the Bronx Zoo
- 265 acres
- 4000 animals
- Over 2 million visitors/year
- Approx. 400 employees
- Owned by NYC
- Run by WCS
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- 300 acres
- Zoo vs. Animal Sanctuary
- Owned by Town of Riverhead
- Run by a non-profit organization
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- Population:
Riverhead (27,680)
Suffolk (1.4 million)
Long Island (2.78 mil)
- Tourists/Summer population of eastern Long Island
- Schools:
915 schools (K-12)
470,000 students
- Population/size ratio for successful zoo
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- Zoo vs. Animal Sanctuary
- Zoo:
$1million/acre
- Animal Sanctuary
1/10
$100,000/acre
- Phases
- Scalable
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- Zoo: $12/person
- Sanctuary: $250,000/yr
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- Main attraction in area/on Long Island
- Museums, science centers etc.:
10% local attendance
- Zoos:
over 50% local attendance
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- Community support
- Community support
- Community support
- (Riverhead civic associations)
- Town Board
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- Establish non-profit org or network/ coalition of existing organizations
- Volunteers
- Fundraising
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- Your support
- Petition: Name, address
- phone, email
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- Unlike no other place
- Every animal tells a story
- The real reason … the message …
“Respect Life”
- Make a difference
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- “When we build, let us think that we build forever.
- Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone.
- Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for,
- And let us think
- As we lay stone on stone
- That a time is to come
- When those stones will be held sacred
- Because our hands have touched them
- And that men will say
- As they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them,
- ‘See! This our fathers did for us.’”
- -John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)
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