The Long Island Planning Council, which last year junked former director Lee Koppelman’s final master plan, will announce its intent tomorrow to hire the high-powered consulting firm McKinsey and Associates to create the new blueprint for the region’s future.
McKinsey, which did New York City’s master plan for 2030 dubbed PlaNYC, will take the lead role. But other groups, including Regional Plan Associates, Sustainable Long Island and Vision Long Island and Vision Long Island, are already working on a transit portion of the plan.
A major part of McKinsey’s charge will be to include an economic sustainability plan to deal with the recent fiscal downturn.
The new plan, which is expected to cost more than $1-million, nearly half of it funded from outside sources, should be complete early next year.
Meanwhile, sources say talks have stalled on Koppelman and Stony Brook University claims for $150,000 in payments on the never-released master plan, and $50,000 for a study done on Suffolk’s employee health plan.
Rick Brand
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