Environmental Planning & Design, LLC

01/18/2024

Want to learn more about the Three Rivers Water Trail?

Join us for a virtual meeting on January 30th from 6-8 pm. Learn more about our boat launches and provide your feedback to help improve conditions, amenities, promotion and expansion opportunities. This is a great way to learn more about Pittsburgh rivers and how to access them! 🌊

Register today: https://bit.ly/WaterTrailMeeting

05/07/2023

Adding plants to your yard or garden this spring? Choose native plants!

Native plants create beautiful landscapes that provide native wildlife with the diverse habitat and food they need to survive.

They also are adapted to local soils, climate, and conditions and will persist through frost and drought.

Some state parks are having native plant sales this spring:

Kings Gap ➡ https://bit.ly/42c0VB3
Ohiopyle ➡ https://bit.ly/3VcFPQN
Gifford Pinchot ➡ https://bit.ly/425x5OC
Bowmans Hill ➡ https://bit.ly/2R5TqMP

Learn more about natives and where to buy them ➡ http://bit.ly/2JZs99I.

08/23/2021

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How do you move around McKeesport? Through the CDC Reach Program, the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County is funding a study of pedestrian and bicycle access to McKeesport's existing trail and transit systems. Please take this brief survey to help Mayor Cherepko's office better serve your multimodal needs.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LK6BV6S

06/07/2021

Join us tonight for the Jim Mayer Trail Public Meeting with the Cambria County Conservation & Recreation Authority!

06/07/2021

We are excited to host a booth at Good Neighbor Day to kick off our multimodal planning study with the City of McKeesport - Mayor's Office! Be sure to stop by and say hello!

We are still accepting vendors for this year's Good Neighbor Day. The event is planned for Wednesday, June 16, on Fifth Avenue. Register your business or organization by emailing [email protected] or calling 412-675-5020, ext. 605.

10/13/2020

Hazelwood Green Riverfront Master Plan Community Collaboration Event Oct. 15-17

A vision and master plan are currently being developed for the riverfront at Hazelwood Green. This includes a 1.3-mile stretch of riverfront from Hazelwood Avenue to the Hot Metal Bridge. The riverfront offers a place to relax and explore, great views of the water and downtown Pittsburgh, and industrial structures that can help tell the story of Hazelwood’s past.
Hearing from area residents is an important part of the process. Would you like to see a play area? A plaza? Pavilions? More trails? Something else?
Attend this week’s Hazelwood Green Riverfront Master Plan Community Collaboration Event to share your ideas. The event is taking place over a 3-day period from Oct. 15-17. There’s a Neighborhood Pop-Up with oral histories being collected, a Community Social, a Public Preview of design concepts, and more. Attend those portions that best fit your schedule!
Advanced registration is required to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Register online here https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cycle-forward-for-hazelwood-green-riverfront-8405478343 or by phone at (412) 918-6563.
Can’t make the event but want to weigh in? Take the Neighborhood https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HGR_Neighborhood_Survey or City-Wide Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HGR_City_Survey so that your input is received!

Cycle Forward (for Hazelwood Green Riverfront)

10/05/2019

EPD’s Katie Kovalchik presented alongside Mary Ellen Ramage of the Borough of Etna and Rebecca Denlinger of Columbia Borough to speak on “Lost Spaces: Untapped Opportunities for Placemaking” at the PA Greenways and Trails Summit this year.

Today at the Pa Greenways 2019 Conference got to present on the awesome Etna Riverfront Trail and Park project! From the Dougherty Nature Trail Project completed in 2009, to ownership of the riverfront property in 2014 to groundbreaking this past June, Etna got to share our story of the greening of our community! There were many trail groups here and the question asked most was How did the elected officials feel about this work? Proud to share their leadership and support of these projects to get us on this road!! Population 3400 , small but mighty !