The City of New Haven has been awarded $20 million as a recipient of the US EPA 2024 Community Change Grant. URI will be recieving a $626,770 subaward from the grant to fund 400 tree plantings in priority street corridors, staff and adult apprentice funding, and tools and materials for community greenspace and tree planting crews for 2025-2027!
The Mill River Trail gained two new bayberry shrubs behind 451 Grand Ave, thanks to volunteer efforts to revitalize the community corridor.
Volunteers, city leaders, and URI staff planted Tree #1 of the year, a red oak, in Kimberly Field and pledged to plant 1,000 new trees in New Haven in 2024.
30 people took a walk through Morris Cove, from Lighthouse Point Park to East Shore Park and back again, to see for themselves the route the city has proposed for the Shoreline Greenway Trail. Organized by the New Haven Bioregional Group, one of the walk’s leaders was Chris Ozyck of Urban Resources Initiative.
The City of New Haven granted URI a $17,000 contract to solicit public feedback on the Parks Department’s future organizational structure. URI hosted a community dialogue at the Q House to discuss the splitting the city’s parks and public works staff into separate departments.
