- Strength in numbers
- Representation of your views and concerns
- Greater knowledge of community issues and activities
- Voice in local government
- Representation of your needs at town and county level
- Leadership on programs/initiatives
- Opposition to inappropriate and or exploitative development
- Reciprocal support with other civic associations on mutual concerns
- Increase property values
- Improve speed and parking enforcement on Routes 106 & 25a
- Maintain the STOP AVALON account and monitor any development of the site
- Keep an eye on our community and alert residents which may have an undesirable impact on the quality of life, such as down zoning and inappropriate land use
- Promote the welfare and vitality of East Norwich
- Help facilitate community block parties
- Collect affordable household membership dues in direct support of our projects
- Maintenance of EastNorwich.org website
- Assist in the Chelsea Estate Restoration
- Expand emergency preparedness and basic response techniques to citizens through Nassau CERT program
- Attempting to establish an East Norwich History Museum
- Promote legislation for the protection of Long Island water and its aquifers
Goals:
- Join hands before concerns become greater issues.
- Keep an eye on our community and alert residents of plans, which may have an undesirable impact on the quality of life, such as down zoning.
- Collect affordable household membership dues, a direct support of our projects.
- Coordinate the activities of volunteers to help keep East Norwich alive and growing.
How the ENCA Has Been Instrumental since 1960:
- Preventing a cloverleaf intersection in the town center, where Route 25A meets Route 106.
- Opposing the bridge across the Long Island Sound from Oyster Bay to Rye
- Defeating a proposed fast-food drive-in on Route 106, near the East Norwich Inn
- Halting sand mining operations at Goat Hill and Sagamore Farms, just north of the Vernon Intermediate School
- Reducing the density of housing units and Norwich Gate by 25 percent
- Preventing the installation of a cellular tower at Goat Hill
- Preventing the sale of Nassau County property on Route 25A near the Black Walnut area without notification of residents and plan proposal review
- Defending zoning laws
- Participated in the 300th Anniversary Celebration of East Norwich at the Chelsea Center
- Participation to the Boys and Girls Club