Greenways and Traffic, Both Are Being Studied

Photo by Evan Brandt

A map of the region being covered in the Multi-Regional Greenway and Stewardship Study. It includes municipalities in the Pottstown Regional Planning Group, the Upper Perkiomen Regional Planning Group, the Central Perkiomen Regional Planning Group and the Indian Valley Regional Planning Group, 36 municipalities total

It takes a long time to study and categorize features in 36 different municipalities.

Especially when you are looking at different terrains, habitats, flora and fauna, as well as coming up with ways to best maintain them.

But that's what Natural Lands and the Montgomery County Planning Commission are doing in an effort that is now three years old, and still not complete.

The idea is to get an inventory of greenspaces in the four regions, public and private, and come up with guidelines on how best to maintain them.

The Pottstown regional planners got an update on that effort last night, and learned that the park in each township and borough studied were carefully selected for habitat, landscape and terrain type -- wetland, meadow, forest -- so that the stewardship guides would apply to any parcel of greenspace with similar characteristics.

The planners also reviewed a list of 21 roadways or intersections which are candidates for study by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, removing some, adding others.

Here are the Tweets from the meeting: