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Norwalk parks report Microforest groundbreaking at Meadowspeed Park and mobilization at Betts project
Summary
Parks staff reported a recent groundbreaking for a microforest at Meadowspeed Park developed with a grant and a land-trust partner, and said mobilization for the Betts (marina-side) project is under way with a scheduled groundbreaking next month.
City Parks & Recreation staff reported two construction and restoration initiatives at the Oct. 8 committee meeting: a newly planted microforest at Meadowspeed Park and mobilization work beginning at the Betts site on the east side of the marina.
Robert Stowers said the microforest project at Meadowspeed Park began with a grant and a partnership with the Norwalk Land Trust and additional planting is planned. Stowers said the Land Trust has recently been taken over by AspenTech, per comments in the meeting, and the microforest will create a vegetative buffer in an industrial corridor that committee members said will improve air quality and community health.
“I think it is going to be a real improvement health wise in that community and be a real buffer because it's still an industrial area,” a committee member said during the meeting. Stowers confirmed planting is live and that additional work is planned.
Betts mobilization and groundbreaking Stowers said mobilization has begun at the Betts site and that a groundbreaking is planned on the sixteenth at Veterans Park (referred to in the meeting as “vets”). Stowers said funding for the Betts project came from state and accumulated capital funds and that work has moved from planning into construction mobilization.
No formal committee vote was required for these informational updates.
Community members and council members on the committee discussed trash management, long-term maintenance, and the potential for neighborhood volunteer stewardship to reduce litter. Stowers said the Parks Department will retain responsibility for park maintenance and that staff are exploring partnerships with neighborhood organizations for youth stewardship and programming.
