Copiague

Downtown Copiague

About Copiague

Copiague is an unincorporated hamlet located on the south shore of Long Island in the Town of Babylon, New York. Copiague is bordered by Amityville Village, Lindenhurst Village and the Great South Bay. It is approximately 35 miles east of New York City and 70 miles west of Montauk Point at the eastern tip of Long Island. Today, Copiague is a diverse community that continues to grow and change. People of Hispanic and Eastern European heritage constitute the more recent immigrant groups that add to the hamlet’s multi-cultural heritage.

Copiague Vision Plan

Copiague’s urban form has been shaped by a dearth of planning to guide development, especially in the areas of transportation, land use and public aesthetics. This has resulted in a downtown characterized by traffic congestion, incompatible land uses, inefficient location and use of parking facilities and a sometimes unappealing visual character. While there had been efforts to beautify and revitalize the downtown area, there was currently no plan to guide redevelopment. Therefore, adaptive reuse decisions were made by individual property owners on a site-by-site basis without solid economic information to back up these decisions. Given this combination of factors, downtown Copiague was in need of a comprehensive approach to redevelopment, in order to build upon its rich history and existing assets. Another important part of creating a vision for a downtown area is educating the community on the importance of revitalizing the center and reinforcing the economic and social value of the downtown to the entire community. Creating a Downtown Vision Plan empowers the community to develop consensus for their downtown and to guide future development.

Recommendations made in this plan include:

  • Adoption of a form-based zoning code to allow higher density development, mixed use, parking to the rear of businesses, building to the lot line, wide sidewalks, aesthetic improvements to facades and signage
  • Redevelopment of industrial parcels to mixed-use, and relocation of some existing industrial uses
  • Expansion of Veterans’ Memorial Park to create a signature public space and a focal point in downtown Copiague
  • Redistribution of existing off-street parking facilities, to use parking more efficiently and encourage building to lot lines
  • Shared parking, access management, commuter parking fees
  • Improvements to pedestrian treatments along Great Neck Road including but not limited to textured, high visibility crosswalks and pedestrian crossing signals at all signalized intersections

*See the Copiague Vision Plan for additional recommendations

Downtown Copiague Implementation Committee Members: 

  • Amity Harbor Civic Association
  • Copiague Chamber of Commerce
  • Copiague Board of Education
  • Copiague Beautification Society
  • Copiague PTA
  • Copiague Public Schools
  • District Copiague Weekly
  • Great South Bay Estates Homeowners Association
  • Kiwanis Club
  • Knights of Columbus Our Lady of the Assumption Church
  • Polish Friends of Copiague
  • Business Owners
  • Property Owners

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