More than 800 people responded to a survey about the future of the Kennett Greenway, the results of which will be discussed at Wednesday’s meeting of the Kennett Township supervisors.
“There’s a groundswell of enthusiasm from the community,” Kennett Township Manager Eden Ratliff said in a recent interview. “We’re excited by the significant response by the community.”
The survey results are the fourth item on the supervisors’ agenda. The online meeting begins at 7 p.m.
The supervisors’ meeting is just one of the ways that Greenway organizers and township officials are reaching out to the public. Other meetings include a special meeting of the Kennett Township Trails and Sidewalks Committee on March 12, a design review with residents of Chandler Mill, Round Hill, and Falcon’s Lair on March 16, a public design review on March 18, and a public discussion of the Greenway plans at a special supervisors’ meeting on March 25.
“This is a project that is designed to connect and bring the community together,” said Christina Norland, the executive director of the Kennett Trails Alliance. “These initial sessions are part of this process.
“We have throughout this process been listening to (residents’) concerns and desires and look forward to engaging them in this process going forward.”
What residents and the public will see is preliminary engineering of potential options, Norland explained, “not final engineering.”
The Kennett Greenway, when finished, will “connect five municipalities, 10 parks and preserves, 1,500 acres of open space, and over 12,000 residents in Kennett Township and Kennett Borough.”
For more information on the Greenway, go to kennettgreenway.com. For more information about the upcoming meetings, go to Kennett Township’s website at kennett.pa.us.
About Monica Fragale
Monica Thompson Fragale is a freelance reporter who spent her life dreaming of being in the newspaper business. That dream came true after college when she started working at The Kennett Paper and, years later The Reporter newspaper in Lansdale and other dailies. She turned to non-profit work after her first daughter was born and spent the next 13 years in that field. But while you can take the girl out of journalism, you can’t take journalism out of the girl. Offers to freelance sparked the writing bug again started her fingers happily tapping away on the keyboard. Monica lives with her husband and two children in Kennett Square.
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