The Barber Street Park Project is almost ready to move on to the design phase. Volunteers have explored and documented the site, and now have a good sense of the design challenges ahead. But there's a little work from the initial clearing phase to finish up, and this mostly involves removing a large pile of bush honeysuckle that was generated during the first two volunteer works days.

Project leaders are looking for volunteers to help them move the bush honeysuckle pile at the Barber St. site this Sat. June 12 from 10am to 2pm. Other touch-up work includes keeping paths clear of vines. Some trash pick-up may also be necessary.

The Barber Street Park Project is a volunteer effort to design and build a neighborhood park here in Athens on an empty lot on Barber Street. Located at the top of Boulevard, the site is well positioned to serve as a neighborhood focal point and could easily be integrated into a future greenway network and/or a rails-to-trails project.

For more info about this project and to find out how you can get involved, check out Dan Lorentz's great blog HERE.

Posted by Katie Throne

Tags: Boulevard | Athens | Park

A local Blogger recently conducted a study on the walkability of Athens' neighborhoods using Walk Score. According to his study, Boulevard is the most walkable neighborhood and Cherokee Forest is the least. Click HERE to check out his study and see how your neighborhood stacked up!

Posted by Katie Throne

Tags: athens | walkability | boulevard