I think everyone in the Imperial Valley needs to be vigilant and watch for these projects that do not benefit the Valley.

You have to think it will. It's too depressing not to.

If we were creating zero-percent emissions, the county would still be at a serious level of air pollution. There is nothing we can do.

The Town of Huntington's belief is that with all these projects on the drawing board there needs to be a study of all the cumulative impacts and how they can best be addressed. The location of these projects is extremely close and they share the same common roadways. There has to be a cumulative impact. We are not trying to hold up the project. We are trying to foster good planning. Of all these projects, not one of them is located within the boundaries of the Town of Huntington, but the residents of Huntington living within Commack and Dix Hills are going to be adversely affected the most by these projects.

It's a problem that needs attention and has to be fixed. We are fast-tracking projects.

Our hope is that we will see a net increase in projects. The needs in our three-county region (Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties) far outstrip the means.