Save Sapsucker Woods

Contact us at savesapsuckerwoods@gmail.com to learn more and join our mailing list.

Sunday

Winter in Sapsucker Woods

calendar

• Town Board Meeting: Feb. 22, 4:30 pm

how you can help

• Sign Our Online Petition
• Our Petition Campaign (see the text of the petition)
• Do you live in Northeast Ithaca and have drainage problems? We want to hear from you!
• Download Petition and Flier
• Reserve a Yard Sign
• Other ways to get involved

learn more

• About Us
• About Sapsucker Woods
• Questions and Answers (an introduction)
• Briarwood I & II documents (PDF)
• Planning Board 6/20 (Env. Assessment)
• Planning Board 7/18 (Preliminary Approval)
• Aerial Site Map
• Unique Natural Areas Map

Our Concerns

• The Flawed Environmental Assessment
• Inadequate Rare Bird Census
• Severe Drainage Problems in the area
• Unique Natural Area designation

In the Press

• Ithaca Journal: Town of Ithaca Reviews Briarwood Stormwater Plan (7/10/07)
• Ithaca Times: Briarwood II (7/11/07)
• Tompkins Weekly: Town Probes Drainage Issues (5/28/07)
• IJ: Town hears residents' stormwater concerns (12/7/06)
• IJ: Sapsucker Woods residents cry foul (11/14/06)
• Tompkins Weekly: Group Questions Town Subdivision (10/23/06 p.3)
• Cornell Daily Sun: Protest Focuses on Sapsucker Woods
• IJ: Sapsucker area may get housing units
• IJ: Planning Board approves preliminary subdivision plan

Opinions

• Project a detriment to Sapsucker Woods
• Sapsucker project a bad idea
• Town should answer for Sapsucker plans
• Looking into Sapsucker Woods

Links

• Town of Ithaca Website
• Tompkins County Environmental Management Council
• Unique Natural Areas Project
• County Natural Features Focus Area Project (PDF)
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