Connect Edgmont is a community group and our updates serve only to supplement official Edgmont Township and School District communication. We recommend checking out the following official resources for more information:
- Edgmont Township’s Elementary School page: All Township information regarding the proposed public elementary school project is available here.
- RTMSD’s Room to Learn Room to Grow site: The official school district source for information on the proposed new elementary school in Edgmont.
- Edgmont Township Public Meetings: Meeting dates, agendas, online registration links and minutes for Board of Supervisor and Planning Commission meetings.
- RTMSD School Board Meetings: Meeting dates, agendas and online registration links for school board meetings.
Open Space and Trails Resources
- Edgmont Township’s 2015 Comprehensive Plan: The Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on March 16, 2015.
- Friends of Ridley Creek State Park: A nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, protecting and enhancing Ridley Creek State Park.
- Friends of Haverford Trails: Interactive map of local walking trails (both formal and informal) and multi-use paved trails in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.
Grants and Conservation Programs
- Delco Greenways Grant Program: Delaware County Council’s municipal grant program for open space, trails, and recreation. Eligible municipal projects may include conservation or trail easements on private land, construction of trails, and planning services such as comprehensive open space plans, feasibility studies, design, and engineering plans.
- WeConservePA Greenways and Trails hub
- WeConservePA Trails Conservation Tools
- Regional Trails Program: DVRPC’s Regional Trails Program provides planning assistance and financial support to trail developers, counties, municipalities and nonprofit organizations to complete the Circuit, Greater Philadelphia’s 800-plus-mile network of multi-use trails. With financial support from the William Penn Foundation, the Regional Trails Program has provided $22 million in funding to over 120 trail planning, design, and construction projects to date.
- Greenways, Trails and Recreation Program: Funding is derived from the Marcellus Legacy Fund and is administered by the Commonwealth Financing Authority. The grant offers up to a 50% (or $250,000) match for planning, acquisition, design and construction activities for trails, greenways, open space and parks.
“The Township should encourage and work with homeowners’ associations and developers to enhance existing trails or paths within residential communities and ensure their development in new, planned properties. While some path or trail segments currently exist, such as in the Summerhill Park and Brickhouse Farms developments other communities, such as Runnymeade, would benefit from a completion or enhancement of partially constructed trails.
Trails within residential communities are typically paved and surrounded by grass, plantings and trees at various points. They are an important amenity that provide opportunities for outdoor recreations and socializing, and can also connect residences in a development to community entrances and exits and the wider Township road network. While sidewalks are not necessary for Township developments, outdoor trails provide a less intensive way to connect residents to their communities and neighboring areas while blending with the more natural, less developed character of Edgmont.”
Edgmont township comprehensive plan, 2015
About Connect Edgmont
We are a growing group of residents promoting resident, township and school district collaboration on topics including the new elementary school, Ridley Creek State Park access and a township trail network.
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