With luck by October crews will be busy digging holes and planting the first of 500 new trees planned along Route 1. The idea for the trees – both native species and ornamental – is to create a tree lined boulevard from Port Chester and Stamford.
JoAnn Messina, director of the Tree Conservancy said the number of different departments and agencies involved is numerous.
On Thursday elected officials, town employees and volunteers gathered along busy Route 1 in Old Greenwich to mark the last leg of the effort to pick sites for new trees.
Messina said 2-1/2 years earlier the Planning & Zoning commission chair Margarita Alban and town planner Katie DeLuca approached the Tree Conservancy, Conservation Commission, Parks & Rec, and Architectural Review Committee about the idea of greening the Rte 1 corridor. ARC chair Richard Hein became the chair of the Greenscape Committee.
Many recall an early project initiated by the Greenscape Committee involved planting thousands of crocuses in the island along Rte 1 at the foot of Stanwich Rd.
As for the the vision of a tree-lined boulevard, Messina said so far sites have been mapped out for 300 trees. [continued]
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