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MetroGreen® Alliance:
MetroGreen® is
a proposed 1,144-mile interconnected system of public and private
open spaces, greenways and trails designed to link seven counties
in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
The plan covers Leavenworth, Johnson and Wyandotte counties in
Kansas and Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte counties in Missouri.
MetroGreen continues a tradition of valuing green space in the
Kansas City area by extending the "parkways and boulevards" concept
of the 1894 Kessler Plan for Kansas City, Mo. MetroGreen extends
and enhances this commitment by identifying more than 75 separate
corridors to form a regional network of greenways that connects
many of the areas most valuable natural assets. The project is one
of the 10 Giant Steps identified as part of the Kansas City Sesquicentennial
Celebration.
ArcView GIS maps of the MetroGreen trail system are available through
MARC. Please contact Steve Rhoades at
816/474-4240 to request a CD version of the MetroGreen report or
to receive further information about the program.
MetroGreen® Outreach
and Planning:
MARC is conducting
an effort to formulate regional natural resource conservation
policies and implementation strategies based on the framework
of MetroGreen.
 The recent
KC Natural
Resource Inventory project provides data on high-quality
resources. This information was used to determine the highest-priority
MetroGreen corridors.
The current
efforts of MARC, MetroGreen advisory groups, and our other partners
focus on implementation.
Outreach
and planning activities:
- Conservation
finance seminar,
January
31, 2007
- Implementation
workshop, February
28, 2007
- Community-based
strategy meetings:
- Meeting
to strategize priority conservation areas, March
22, 2007
- Civic Leadership Board and MetroGreen Technical Committee,
April 11, 2007
- Civic Leadership Board and MetroGreen Technical Committee,
June 8, 2007
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