jfackert
Registered: 12/19/03
Posts: 17
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What do you think of the preliminary plan?
We have worked with the Township Planner and the Planning Commission to put together a preliminary proposal for the "backbone" of trails. We looked at the trails that now exist in the township (primarily in parks) and in surrounding communities, and at desirable trail destinations. The map can be viewed on the web site.
Primary routes:
-The old Michigan Airline Railroad route which runs east to west across southern Green Oak, aproximately parallelling 9 Mile and M-36, and connecting westward to the Lakeland Trail in Hamburg and other trails along the old rail line running all the way to Lake Michigan, and eastward to the trails in South Lyon and the Huron Valley Trail running eastward to Wixom and on through other Oakland County trails to Lake St. Claire.
This trail is important because it is a primary focus of the State DNR and Rails-to-Trails organization to complete this trail across lower Michigan, called the Airline Trail,
and the Green Oak Township portion and US-23 crossing are the last major bits of the Airline Trail to be planned. The rest of the trail is nearly complete! Significant grant funds are available and focused on this trail.
-The Lee Road connection, east to west across northern Green Oak. This route is important because it connects a string of parks and schools, and it is relatively short (the trails in the parks already exist for the most part!) and major commercial developement at Lee and US-23 is in the planning stages, and will facilitate construction of safety pathways through that area, and water and sewer lines are being run through now, resulting in cleared pathways above. This connects Island Lake Recreation Area to Huron Meadows Metropark, and beyond to Brighton Recreation area.
-North-South Connections: Rickett on the west side, Rushton and Kensington Rd. on the East side hook up th eeast-west trails to form a big loop.
If you live in the area of any of these proposed trails, join a subcomittee to help plan and build a constituancy for your section!
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