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Pedestrian Friendly            Advocacy Items

Pedestrian-friendly is also driver-friendly.  Any changes that encourage people to leave their automobiles at home and instead walk to their destinations will also calm the drivers behind the wheel.  Attractive landscaping, maintained sidewalks and restored historic structures give incentive for pedestrian travel.  Studies have shown that moods -- and thus drivers of vehicles -- are calmed by such environments.

Norwalk is a city begging to be walked.  We need to find ways to provide a safe means for pedestrians to travel.  

The existence of adequate Open Space and Parkland allows people to enjoy being out of their automobiles.  Many of the following sites remind us that environment-friendly is pedestrian friendly -- and people-friendly.                                           

 

*     U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

*     CFE's Environmental Action Site

*     CT Department of Environmental Protection  

                                                                           

                                                 Walkability

*     Walkable Communities, Inc.

*     Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center 

*     What is a Walkable Community 

*     Walkable Communities

*     Planning for Walkable Communities

*     Create Walkable Neighborhoods

*     Making your Community More Walkable

*     Welcome to Walk Arlington

*     Oregon Bike and Pedestrian Planning

*     National Safety Council

*     WSDOT Pedestrian  

*     Walk To School, USA

                   Water Quality and Public Access to the Waterfront

*     The Long Island Sound Foundation

*     Save the Sound

*     Clean Sound

*     Soundwaters

*     University of Connecticut Dept. of Marine Sciences

*     Coastal Services Center

*     New England Estuarine Research Society

 *     Estuarine Research Federation

*     National Estuary Program: Bringing Our Estuaries New Life

*     Fertilizer Poster

*     Norwalk River Watershed Association

*     Norwalk River Watershed Initiative

                                             Urban Forestry

*     Urban Forestry in Norwalk

*     Norwalk Tree Alliance

*     The Arbor Day Foundation

*     CT DEP Urban Forestry

*     UConn Extension Forestry

*     CT Urban Forest Council

*     Northeast Center for Urban Forestry

*     CT Agricultural Experiment Station

*     NYC Oasis - Neighborhood Tree Survey results                                                               

*     FEMA

            Preservation of Historic Architecture on the Streetscape

*     Secretary of the Interior's Standards of Historic Preservation Programs

*     Enabling Legislation For Traditional Neighborhood Development Regulations


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