HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009-05-27 09-187 RESOLVECOUNCIL ACTION
Item No. 09 187
Date: May 27, 2009
Item/Subject: Resolve, Expressing the Support of the City Council for the Efforts of Bangor
Trails to Establish a Public Trail Connecting Cascade Park with Stillwater Avenue
Responsible Department: City Council
Commentary:
Bangor Trails, a consortium comprised of the City of Bangor, the Bangor Land Trust, and Bangor
Beautiful, completed a city-wide trail plan in September 2008 that was subsequently adopted by the
City Council. Since then, Bangor Trails has begun work on implementing the plan. The initial effort
is to develop a trail that will eventually connect Cascade Park to Stillwater Avenue, passing through
property owned by the State, Eastern Maine Community College, and a variety of others. Bangor
Trails has communicated with all of the property owners along the route concerning this trail. It has
received conceptual approval from two of the largest properties— Eastern Maine Community College
and the State's complex located on Hogan Road and Mount Hope Avenue and including Saxl Park.
We anticipate that a public announcement of this effort will be made at the upcoming rededication
of Saxl Park. The next step will be to negotiate actual memorandums of agreement with these
entities. Once completed, these will be presented to the Council for its review and approval.
The Infrastructure Committee was recently brief on this project and requested that a resolve be
placed on the agenda expressing the Council's support for it and for proceeding toward
memorandums of agreement.
Department Head
Manager's Comments:
Recommend approval, as does the Infrastructure Committee.
City Manager
Associated Information:
Budget Approval:
Finance Director
Legal Approval:
Solicitor
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Assigned to Blanchette May 27, 2009
CITY OF BANGOR
(TITLE.) Resolve, Expressing the Support of the City Council for the Efforts of Bangor Trails to
Establish a Public Trail Connecting Cascade Park with Stillwater Avenue
WHEREAS, Bangor Trails, a consortium included the City of Bangor, the Bangor Land Trust, and
Bangor Beautiful, presented a city-wide trail plan to the Council in September 2008; and
WHEREAS, the City Council subsequently accepted and adopted this plan; and
WHEREAS, Bangor Trails has begun working toward implementing this plan by focusing on a trail
connecting Cascade Park with Stillwater Avenue; and
WHEREAS, Toward this end, property owners along the trail's route have been contacted, and two of
the largest, the State of Maine and Eastern Maine Community College, have indicated an
interest in entering into a memorandum of agreement that would result in trails on their
property remaining accessible to the public as a portion of this larger trail segment; and
WHEREAS, as an element of the upcoming rededication of Saxl Park, located on State Property
adjacent to the Dorothea Dix Complex, progress toward establishing this trail will be
announced; and
WHEREAS, Bangor Trails has briefed the Infrastructure Committee on this project, and the
Committee has recommended that the Council adopt a Resolve in support of it, allowing
Bangor Trails to proceed with negotiating agreements with landowners;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR THAT:
We support the efforts of Bangor Trails to establish a public trail connecting Cascade Park with Stillwater
Avenue and to proceed with the development of agreements with property owners along the trail's
proposed route that will allow for it to be implemented, such agreements to be subject to the approval
of the City Council,
IN CITY COUNCIL
May 27, 2009
Passed
Motion Made and Seconded for Passage
Steve Ribble, representing Bangor Land
Trust & Bangor Trails, Urged Council
Support
Passed
ity Clerk
# 09-187
R E S O L V E
(TITLE,) Expressing the Support of the
City Council'for the Efforts of Bangor
Trails to Establish a Public Trail
Connection Cascade Park with Stillwater
Avenue
Assigned to Councilor