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VISION Concepts HOW DO I EXPERIENCE THE RIVER PROJECT 4 : ENJOY THE RIVERWAY Riverway goals Help people get to the river Offer a beautiful place to get exercise Protect the river’s natural resources Encourage appropriate development Riverway components Links existing public green spaces Create view spots and corridors Adds to tree canopy Links City to planned BV Bikeway Defines BV Bikeway parking areas The Blackstone Valley River is the heart of downtown Pawtucket and its greatest natural resource for natural habitat, public space and private development. Always an important place, the Pawtucket Falls were an important Native American fishing and crossing point. For colonial Europeans, the water was first resource for living and then for power as industrialization harnessed the potential energy of the falls and Pawtucket became the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. The placement of Slater Mill, followed by mills of many types over the next hundred years, was key in the development of the city and the Blackstone Valley region. Eventually, industry changed, out grew its small-scale facilities, and abandoned the Pawtucket downtown area. Because there had been few or no industrial regulations, the river became the most polluted river in the United States, destroying fish, wildlife and plant ecosystems. Eventually, development along the river was abandoned as it was a dangerous flow of toxins and decay. In the mid 20th century, public efforts began to bring the river back to health. In the 1970s, the Zap the Blackstone initiative and Environmental Protection Agency regulations started programs to revitalize the water quality and natural health of the river region. Over the past few decades, the river has increasingly become safe and renewed and it is anticipated to hit key water quality milestones in the coming decade increasing the potential of public access. In the future of downtown Pawtucket, the river will be a crucial place for recreation, healthy ecosystems, transportation, economic growth, and residential use. The existing surviving mill buildings have already become places for adaptive reuse and new neighborhood growth. These are sustainable housing types and help increase the city’s tax base. The next infrastructure investment will be the Blackstone Valley Bikeway which will be built through the downtown area. The PDDP team recognizes the potential to leverage this effort into a larger network of public spaces that link existing properties from downtown north to Central Falls and south along both sides of the river to the Festival Pier, Town Landing, East Providence and Providence. These linked spaces form the proposed Riverway-- it would include publicly owned land for recreation or development that includes public space. Currently the spaces along the river are either highly urban and built or leftover wild spaces that neither function as healthy ecological spaces nor as functional public recreation areas. If these spaces are tied together, the network could become an emerald necklace of natural beauty for healthy living. 38 PDDP VISION
PROJECT 4 : ENJOY THE RIVERWAY The Blackstone River was first a source of life, then power, then danger, now health and ecological and economic revitalization. PDDP FINAL REPORT 39
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Page 4 and 5: TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION VISI
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DESIGN Bicycle & Transit Systems BI
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DESIGN Landscape LANDSCAPE PLAN GOA
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DESIGN Landscape ECOLOGICAL GREEN S
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DESIGN Landscape RIVERWAY COMPONENT
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STATUS AND IMPLEMENTATION
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Opportunities The City of Pawtucket
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