Support the East Norwich Civic Association

The East Norwich Civic Association is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization run by volunteers. Your support ensures we can speak up on behalf of our community and activities and issues we face.

Become a Member!

There is strength in numbers! The East Norwich Civic Association:

  • Offers representation of your views and concerns

  • Provides a greater knowledge of community issues and activities

  • Gives you a voice in local government

  • Represents your needs at the town and county levels

  • Provides leadership on programs/initiatives

  • Voices its opposition to inappropriate and or exploitative development on your behalf

  • Receives reciprocal support with other civic associations on mutual concerns

  • Ensures property values increase by maintaining and preserving community values

Why should you join us?

East Norwich Civic Association will:

  • 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 East Norwich Civic Association 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