Westwoods Trails Meeting
June 21 , 2003
Guilford Community Center

MINUTES OF MEETING 6/9/03 held at Paul's house:

Website development is going well. Kevin & Matt promise to work on it this summer.

Next year's projects include:
1.) A walk to assess whether or not we should maintain the red square and the lower blue rectangle, green circle & yellow triangle or let them go natural.
2.) Reassessment of the yellow circle. There are lots of dead hemlocks on the main trail. Should we eliminate the dangerous cliffside trails & streamline the main trail or have bypass trails to avoid dangerous main route.
3.) Westwoods is 40 years old! Should we have a picnic at Table Rock?

Shelly will help us study erosion, abandonment of certain trails & preservation of wild areas. We have been remiss in identifying rare species to preserve.

Reprinting of the Map-we will do one more printing of the old one then add Eastwoods. Probably need to change trails a little bit. We talked about getting new road maps from the town and superimposing our trails onto them as an inexpensive alternative to buying a mapping program (and learning how to use it).

Shoreline Greenway-Seems like they have more problems than they can handle.Too much private land to cross. The question of handicap accessibility may prevent us from letting them use our trails, i.e. paving.

Kevin went to the town meeting re: future development of the town. 2 consultants have been hired. There are 2300 more building lots left in town. Housing density & the size of houses were discussed. It was noted that empty nesters and middle income families are soon not going to have any options. The question of interconnecting the shoreline towns with bike trails was also discussed at the meeting. Kevin recommends that we have a representative at these meetings to report back to us.