The Freshwater Land Trust, as a member of the Health Action Partnership, will connect the community’s places by creating a comprehensive greenway master plan for Jefferson County. This project, termed Our One Mile, is part of an effort to combat Jefferson’s County obesity rate, which is over 30%. Our One Mile is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.
In the fall of 2010, the public will be invited to a series of meetings to help the Freshwater Land Trust identify a network of over 100 miles of trails, greenways and blueways to connect desirable places throughout the Birmingham area and Jefferson County. These ideas and connections will be transformed into a workable greenways plan for every community.
Our One Mile will create positive impacts for the physical, economic, environmental, and social wellbeing of the Birmingham Region, one mile at a time.
Five Mile Creek, photo by Beth Maynor Young
Update: August 2010
Goodwyn Mills and Cawood has been hired to help the Freshwater Land Trust create a greenways master plan for Jefferson County. GMC has experience developing greenways across the state including Chief Ladiga in east Alabama, Aldridge Creek, Indian Creek and Big Cove Greenways in Huntsville, Aqueduct Trail in Tarrant, the Polly Ridge Road Trail in Center Point and the downtown trail in Eufala.
Read the press release here: Freshwater Land Trust hires Goodwyn Mills Cawood to create greenways master plan (7).
Public meetings will begin in October of 2010. These sites and dates of these meetings will be posted here as soon as they are known, so please check back soon!