Special Meeting on Controversial Shoreline Greenway Trail Plan This Week

by Jack Kramer, Correspondent

GUILFORD, CT — A controversial project, the Shoreline Greenway Trail plan, will be the subject of a special workshop meeting on Thursday in Guilford.

The Guilford Board of Selectmen will be holding the special meeting on the Shoreline Greenway Trail project. The meeting will be held at 8:30 a.m.

Those in favor of the project say the 0.7 mile trail, paid by state funds, will be a recreational plus for residents who enjoy walking, biking and jogging to the town’s center and fairgrounds.

The trail would run from Route 1 on the Madison line to the Route 146 intersection in Guilford.

Those opposed to the project, however, believe the recreational aspects of the project aren’t as big a plus as the negatives of taking of what they see as historic, town property.

The trail is slated to be part of a 25-mile long stretch starting from Lighthouse Point in New Haven, and running through the shoreline towns of East Haven, Branford, Guilford, ending at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison.

The total cost is nearly $900,000 – with the entire cost being borne by state and federal grants.