Greenspace President David Haines told the Elizabethtown City Council Monday that about two years ago the organization decided to develop a master plan for trails in Elizabethtown.
“We started to evolve more towards a transportation purpose, and we ended up on a place where we realized that the best way to serve our trails is to better connect our community and our neighborhoods to those trails,” Haines said.
Greenspace hired engineering firm Gresham Smith, and they are “about three months into the process of coming up with a bike/pedestrian master plan” for the city.
Haines said an important step in the process is coming up on February 27.
“It’s going to be the first day for public engagement here at Pritchard Community Center and there’s going to be a series of meetings,” Haines said. “One for the project advisory committee, one for a stakeholder group that was identified and includes city leaders, business leaders, tourism, and user groups to kind of start getting ramped up on the bike pedestrian plan, where it’s at, giving input.”
Those meetings will be followed by a public engagement session and the launch of a website for the collection of feedback. Haines said the goal is to identify what the city has and what it needs going forward.
“What I told Gresham Smith is what I would like is a top three or five high-priority, high-payoff street projects that the city can look at and budget for in the next five to ten years,” Haines said. “That makes sense, and then beyond that a best practices manual that incorporates what they did with Complete Streets, but tailors it a little bit more towards Elizabethtown.”
Contact Greenspace for more information.
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