This is just a note to all the folks out there who support the Belmont Community Path that there’s a very important meeting tonight (Monday, June 9) at 7:00 PM in the Board of Selectmen’s Room in Belmont Town Hall.
The Community Path Advisory Committee (CPAC) will make its final presentation to the Board of Selectmen. The meeting starts at 7:00 and CPAC will make its presentation around 7:20 PM.
This will be the last chance to show your support for the Path before the Selectmen make their decision. We need your support!
Some background:
At the meeting, the Belmont Community Path Advisory Committee will review the various options for constructing a path extending from the existing trailhead of the Brighton Street to Alewife path through Belmont Center and Waverley and out to the Waltham border. The Committee was created by the BOS almost two years ago to study the feasibility of a path through Belmont. It will present its recommendations to the BOS. The Belmont Community Path will be a segment of the Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT). The Path would link up with the existing Fitchburg Cutoff Path, which terminates at Brighton Street and extend to the border with Waltham.
By connecting to the MCRT, the Belmont Community Path will provide links to many shared use paths and trail networks.
The report is the product of two years’ work and more than 39 public hearings and surveys. The Community Path will be a tremendous addition to Belmont – but it needs our support.
I’ll see you there! In the meantime, you can read CPAC’s final report or look at proposed routes for the path that the Committee considered during its two years of work here.