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RECENT ADVOCACY: NEW HAVEN GREEN & ENGLISH STATION
Much of our recent advocacy has been focused around the New Haven Green and English Station.
Major changes are being considered for the New Haven Green, a National Historic Landmark. Everyone recognizes that the Green is an asset of immeasurable historic and community importance. It is a place of beauty and simple magnificence — a remarkable feat considering all the diverse activities it supports: open space, churches, transit hub, cars, bikes, pedestrians, festivals, political events — while lending dignity and cohesion to all the urban uses around it. A complex place like this requires careful, comprehensive planning, and robust community participation.
New Haven is now considering closing Temple Street to buses, narrowing this street, adding commercial kiosks on Temple, adding a plaza and cafe to the Lower Green, and moving bus stops to Church Street (and removing on-street parking there). There has been only one public meeting about these proposals since the project was announced.
Responding to community interest and concern, the League is bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders for a community information meeting, “Passport to the New Haven Green” set for February 9th, 5:30 – 8PM at the Ives Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library. We hope you will join us and meet the transportation advocates, transit operators, urban forestry experts, historic preservationists, church leaders, landscape architects, social service providers, civil rights leaders, elected officials and others who will come together to meet and talk to you.
RSVP for “Passport to the New Haven Green” here.
The League believes in the value of bring people together to be in dialog, and learn from each other through civic discourse, letting the community see itself. We hope you believe in this too, and that you will make a contribution to support these projects and the rest of the League’s dedicated work.
Read more about our recent advocacy on English Station, which has been the subject of our work for more than two decades.
[Photo: Domingo Medina]
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