Saratoga County committee agrees to advance reallocation of 2023 Clifton Park grant to larger conservation parcel

The Saratoga County Trails and Open Space Committee voted June 4 to advance a proposal to reallocate a $58,581 county grant awarded to the town of Clifton Park in February 2023 for a pocket park to a proposed, larger Clifton Park conservation project.

Jason, a planner in the Office of Planning and Economic Development, told the committee the Clifton Park packet in the meeting materials requests reallocation of the 2023 award. He said the county’s open space program provided the original grant and that the county paid 50% of the project cost at the time: “Straight up county grant, 50% of the project cost.”

The applicant’s packet, included with the committee materials, shows the 2023 award supported a 1.7‑acre pocket park on Bluejay Way adjacent to the Mission Ferry Nature Preserve. The new proposal is for a roughly 32‑acre parcel the presenter and one committee member described as “far superior” to the prior pocket‑park project and more aligned with…