Eric Alexander is the Director of Vision Long Island, the areas Smart Growth planning organization. Eric has over twenty five years of experience in housing, transportation, community development and coordinating successful community projects. Specifically, Eric has been a proponent of downtown planning, infrastructure investment and mixed use development through advocacy efforts on Federal, State, County levels while working with municipalities to develop and implement smart growth policies, regulations, and projects. All told his efforts at Vision Long Island have resulted in acting as a catalyst for well over 100 Smart Growth projects supporting over 13,000 units of Transit Oriented Development across LI.