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Residents urge Holyoke to preserve Elmwood Forest as council reviews legal status
Summary
Public commenters told the council the Elmwood/woodland parcel on Martin Street should be conserved and not auctioned while its Land Court status is unresolved; council referred an order to the Development & Government Relations Committee to brief members on conservation steps.
Several residents used the council’s public comment period to press elected officials to conserve a small woodland known locally as Elmwood Forest and to clarify the parcel’s legal status.
Jordana O'Connell (56 Woodland St.) said the site (parcel Lot 120-00-011 on Martin Street) is a "rare pocket" of forest that provides air filtration, stormwater absorption and wildlife habitat in a predominantly paved urban landscape and warned that "once…
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