Friday
Sign Our Online Petition
Our petition campaign has been active in the Town of Ithaca for several weeks, but we now have an online petition you may sign if you live outside the immediate area.
Because Sapsucker Woods is such a famous nature refuge, and because the fragmentation and loss of woodland habitat affects us all, we believe this controversy extends well beyond the borders of the town. If you would like to sign our online petition, please click on the link below.
If you have a chance to sign the hard copy of the petition, please do that instead! (The Town Board and Planning Board will certainly believe the hard copy is more valid).
http://www.petitiononline.com/18acres/petition.html
Briarwood II Master Plan Map
This map gives you a sense of Briarwood II: the size of the development, the closing of the wildlife corridor, the loss of open space, the incursion upon what remains of Sapsucker Woods. (Compare this map with the aerial photo). The circled numbers will be new lots; the shaded areas are wetlands--note how many of the lots approach the very edge of wetlands as delineated. Please also keep in mind that the wetlands will be used as stormwater retention ponds, and thereby will be adversely affected. The numbered lots and new roads total eighteen acres of woodland.
