Project Background: Goals

This greenway system will enhance the quality of life for citizens and visitors by striving to:

• Provide safe and efficient alternative transportation linkages between recreational sites, open spaces, residential areas, employment centers, educational and cultural facilities, and other activity centers;
• Encourage citizen wellness and promote opportunities for recreational activities;
• Protect environmental assets, retain and restore beneficial ecological habitats;
• Maintain a contiguous urban forest ecosystem to reduce region-wide environmental problems such as flooding from excessive storm water runoff, water pollution, air quality degradation resulting in non-attainment status, human health hazards and urban climate change;
• Reclaim abandoned industrial, commercial and residential properties such as “Brownfields”;
• Promote an appreciation for Five Mile Creek’s natural, historical and cultural heritage and that of its neighborhoods;
• Protect and link significant remnants of the various communities’ undeveloped open spaces, woodlands, and wetlands; and
• Enhance the aesthetics along the corridor to encourage tourism, promote economic development, and improve the living environment for residents.