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| |  | | | |  | | CMRPC’s Jonathan Church presented a walkability workshop to town officials last week. Amanda Collins. (click for larger version) |
August 21, 2012 SOUTHBRIDGE — The Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC) presented a "walkable community workshop" to town and public safety officials at the Jacob Edwards Library Friday, Aug. 17.
CMRPC Project Manager Jonathan Church led the workshop, which included to a presentation on the building blocks of a walkable community, and hour-long walking "audit" around town followed by a meeting to report findings and discuss how to increase the town's "walkability."
He said his group has presented the workshop in other towns in the state that have a high walking rate, in order to educate people about "the importance of complete streets." CMRPC also chose to study Southbridge because its high crash rate.
For more on this story, please see tomorrow's Southbridge Evening News.
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