APR. 29 - MAY. 12, 2016
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Trail expert: Push for new pathways driven by demographics
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pace of development in the South’s popjohnruch@reporternewspapers.net ulation boom can create feelings of dislocation. Sandy Springs has the right founda“I’m not surprised to be in Sandy tion in place to build urban trails conSprings having this conversation…about necting its scattered parks, trail exa sense of place,” Flink said of the quickpert Chuck Flink told a big crowd at the ly changing suburban city in the heart Sandy Springs Conservancy’s annual of the nation’s fastest-growing “mega“Thought Leaders” dinner April 13. He region.” called for a city “greenprint”—the parks As part of its wide-ranging “Next version of a blueprint—to shape a green Ten” planning process, Sandy Springs future. is sketching out a yet-to-be-defined net“I traveled down Roswell Road today work of greenways. Flink praised the and I understand the angst,” said Flink, Next Ten consultants and said Sandy president of North Carolina-based conSprings will end up with a top-notch sulting firm Greenways, Inc., who has plan. But he did not give specific advice worked on hundreds about fleshing out the of trail plans across the greenway plan. country. But, he addIn fact, Flink said, ed, “The quality of the he sometimes leaves parks you have in this those details up to citcommunity is really, reies that hire him. Inally high…This is a great stead, he teaches them legacy to build on.” to develop a “vocabuFlink said Sanlary” for talking about dy Springs also has green spaces—terms great examples close to like “greenways,” for home in Atlanta’s Buckexample—and a “toolhead neighborhood— box” of various tactics the PATH400 multiJOHN RUCH that could be used to Chuck Flink, president use trail, which has a create them. (That inof Greenways, Inc. planned extension into cludes dealing with Sandy Springs, and the “not in my back yard” “Buckhead Collection” master plan for resistance, he said.) Also important is interconnected parks and trails. having an overall vision, he said, asking “The PATH400 is a wonderful opporwhether Sandy Springs sees itself as antunity for this community,” Flink said at other “edge city” or as a place of natural the dinner at the Westin Atlanta Perimresources, thriving businesses and vieter North hotel, adding that the Atlanta brant neighborhoods. BeltLine park/trail system it connects to Flink did offer some specific examis “the most amazing public works projples of greenway and park projects he ect in the U.S. today.” has worked on that might apply to SanAlso at the dinner, the Conservancy, dy Springs. In Charleston County, S.C., a parks advocacy and funding organizahe took the hands-off “toolbox” aption, gave its annual Greenspace Champroach; 10 years later, he said, the counpion Award to a local hero of the biggest ty has conserved more than 20,000 park within city limits: Park Ranger Jeracres of green space in 130 separate ry Hightower of the Chattahoochee Rivprojects. er National Recreation Area. Hightower In Raleigh, N.C., he helped create said he was touched by the local honan “ecological framework” for the city, or and that the Conservancy itself dewhich is coping with fast, massive popuserved to be honored more than himlation growth. A key reference point was self. a slogan that turns typical urban planFlink–who sported a green tie and ning on its head: “a city within a park.” a green bicycle-shaped lapel pin–is an Another example is Greenville, advocate of “greenways,” meaning any S.C., where the city replaced a downtype of park-style trail—whether paved town highway bridge with a pedestrior unpaved, or following a natural feaan bridge and helped to spark creation ture like a river or a human-made one of the “Swamp Rabbit Trail,” whose unlike an old railroad bed. In the late usual name became a selling point, he 1990s, he worked in metro Atlanta on said. (The name sparked some audience some of the earliest trail plans, includchatter about the possibilities of Sandy ing the Chattahoochee River master Springs’ turtle mascot.) plan and Cobb County’s section of the “Everybody thought it was crazy,” Silver Comet Trail. Flink said of the bridge replacement The nationwide trail trend is driven plan, but it spurred Greenville to beby demographic changes, Flink said. The come “one of the best small cities in millennial generation wants less car-onthe U.S. today because of a really bold ly transportation, he said, and the rapid move.”
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