What is a Feasibility Study and How did we Get Started?
MPMC Feasibility Study to help create Walkable/Bikeable Communities
What is this study?
1) Affordable planning – supported by a group of individuals, businesses and
communities.
2) Knowledgeable planning – by a highly qualified team with experience in a variety of
settings from rural to towns to cities.
3) Planning with input from the local community – with knowledgeable people on the
study group, open community forums, and educational programs for all ages.
4) Planning that looks closely at community and local government concerns.
What are the economic benefits?
1) Having a feasibility study helps obtain County, State, Federal, large nonprofit and
national foundation funding and support for short and long term projects.
2) MPMC has caught the eye of County and State groups, planners and government;
having a feasibility study will help align us with greenways planning on county, state and
national levels helping to insure continued financial support.
3) Walkable/bikeable communities are attractive to visitors who bring economic benefit to
the community by shopping at local stores, eating at restaurants, and staying at bed and
breakfasts – all businesses that value and preserve a rural community. And this helps
keep local stores and restaurants vibrant and available to our residents.
4) The study will find opportunities to connect commercial and historic resources and visitors to trails.
Safety and security benefits:
1) Planning can improve the safety of our roads where people already are biking, jogging
and walking, and preserve our rural roads from becoming thoroughfares.
2) Walkability/bikeability attracts responsible homeowners who want to protect the safety
and vitality of their community.
3) Healthy, active families in a community keeps children involved and helps reduce
boredom and criminal mischief.
Preserving our rural way of life:
1) The feasibility study can help preserve our rural way of life by encouraging families to
enjoy and value the outdoors.
2) The study will help connect communities, schools, sports facilities, parks, historic sites
with safe pedestrian walks, routes, paths and trails.
3) Walking, biking, being outdoors helps keep people in a community connected, and
helps make a community active and vibrant
A Sense of Place:
1) The study can help us connect to nearby township parks and other bikeable communities.
2) It will link us to our nearby State and National Parks and Trails - the Tuscarora Trail, US Bike Route S, the C&O Canal (Bob & Liz George MD pictured) and the 911 Memorial Trail
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What is this study?
1) Affordable planning – supported by a group of individuals, businesses and
communities.
2) Knowledgeable planning – by a highly qualified team with experience in a variety of
settings from rural to towns to cities.
3) Planning with input from the local community – with knowledgeable people on the
study group, open community forums, and educational programs for all ages.
4) Planning that looks closely at community and local government concerns.
What are the economic benefits?
1) Having a feasibility study helps obtain County, State, Federal, large nonprofit and
national foundation funding and support for short and long term projects.
2) MPMC has caught the eye of County and State groups, planners and government;
having a feasibility study will help align us with greenways planning on county, state and
national levels helping to insure continued financial support.
3) Walkable/bikeable communities are attractive to visitors who bring economic benefit to
the community by shopping at local stores, eating at restaurants, and staying at bed and
breakfasts – all businesses that value and preserve a rural community. And this helps
keep local stores and restaurants vibrant and available to our residents.
4) The study will find opportunities to connect commercial and historic resources and visitors to trails.
Safety and security benefits:
1) Planning can improve the safety of our roads where people already are biking, jogging
and walking, and preserve our rural roads from becoming thoroughfares.
2) Walkability/bikeability attracts responsible homeowners who want to protect the safety
and vitality of their community.
3) Healthy, active families in a community keeps children involved and helps reduce
boredom and criminal mischief.
Preserving our rural way of life:
1) The feasibility study can help preserve our rural way of life by encouraging families to
enjoy and value the outdoors.
2) The study will help connect communities, schools, sports facilities, parks, historic sites
with safe pedestrian walks, routes, paths and trails.
3) Walking, biking, being outdoors helps keep people in a community connected, and
helps make a community active and vibrant
A Sense of Place:
1) The study can help us connect to nearby township parks and other bikeable communities.
2) It will link us to our nearby State and National Parks and Trails - the Tuscarora Trail, US Bike Route S, the C&O Canal (Bob & Liz George MD pictured) and the 911 Memorial Trail
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