Jamaica Bay Greenway Coalition Meeting -- Saturday Nov. 2, 10:30 am at Ryan Visitor Center Floyd Bennett Field

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Hello Canarsie,

I hope you are all well. I am happy to invite you to the next Jamaica Bay Greenway Coalition meeting, which will be held on November 2, 10:30 am at the Ryan Visitor's Center. This will be a very special coalition meeting because as Alice Friedman (from NYCDOT Greenways Department) will join us to introduce DOT's Jamaica Bay Greenway Implementation project and planning process. This is an amazing first step to begin to address some of the greenway issues that have been discussed in previous meetings and workshops. Also, during this meeting we wanted to focus sometime to defining our role(s) in this process as well as how we all mutually benefit from coming together.

As was discussed in the last meeting, we ask that you think about the following and come prepared to discuss:

o Your interests & goals for being part of this project & Coalition

o How you feel the Coalition can help your goals

o What you can do to contribute to the Coalition

And lastly below are links to the three summary reports of what was discussed in our community workshops. The purpose of these are three fold. 1) They help to begin to frame the vision for what you all want or are concerned about regarding access to the greenway and Jamaica Bay Waterfront, 2) this is something that DOT and other agencies can reference when thinking about making improvements, and 3) it can help use think about how we can be most affective as a group in making change. Please let me know if you have a any questions regarding these summaries. We will dedicate a little time talking about this at the meeting.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/73yrqzutg87y6mq/MarinePark_WorkshopReport_Draft_102513.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/78tic76gvznlra8/StarrettCity_WorkshopReport_Draft_102513.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mt6dzeh2fy58av0/HowardBeachMeeting_DraftSummary_102513.pdf

A meeting agenda is attached and please let me know if you have any questions. I look froward to hearing from you all soon.

Best,

Kyle

Associate Planner Energy and Environment

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