The town of DeWitt will hold an open house meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21, at Moses DeWitt Elementary School to present progress toward the development of the town’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan (LWRP). The public is invited to attend to learn more about and provide input on policies and projects to revitalize the town’s canal heritage and improve existing waterfront assets.
In 2014, the town of DeWitt was awarded funding through the New York State Department of State’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, which enables the town to develop a Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan that will identify priority projects for the revitalization of Erie Canal related infrastructure within the Town, assist with the development of the town’s recreational trail system and provide a sound basis for future land use decisions.
As part of the LWRP effort, the town has developed a partnership with the city of Syracuse to launch Elevating Erie, an ideas competition to identify innovative concepts that will help to stimulate and guide the future development of the historical Canalway corridor connecting DeWitt to Syracuse. As the town continues to develop the LWRP, it will seek to demonstrate the feasibility of some of the ideas generated by the Elevating Erie competition.
The June 21 open house meeting is the first of a series of public outreach events that will be held throughout this planning initiative. Interactive displays at this meeting will provide information regarding the town’s historic and existing waterfront assets, policies guiding the use and development of those assets, and opportunities to extend the Canalway trail west to the Syracuse.
Members of the public are encouraged to take an online survey to respond to the ideas generated by the Elevating Erie ideas competition. The survey will be open through early August and can be accessed at ElevatingErie.com.
For more information about this topic, contact Sam Gordon, Director of Planning and Zoning for the town of DeWitt at 446-3910 x148 or email at [email protected].
