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WILMAPCO Gathers Public Input on
I-95 Cap Options
Wilmington has joined a growing number of cities that are exploring ways to reconnect neighborhoods and provide new public spaces by creating caps over urban highways. These structures are being used to create green spaces, plazas, and cultural amenities that can also reconnect separated neighborhoods by allowing residents to walk and bike more safely and comfortably.
Committee (AC) meeting at the Trinity The meeting included a walking tour of the study area, which stretched from Corporation, City of Wilmington,
the project team gathered many School. Workshop attendeescomments,whichdemonstrated
scrutinized the initial design ideas and added their own. These ideas were incorporated into three revised concepts representing residents’ preferred layout for the potential park space.
support for the proposed concept, and answered many questions.
A key task of the feasibility study has been to gather resident input, which is why the workshops have been held at venues within the
and residents to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the area.
WILMAPCO followed up this meeting with a virtual AC meeting on November 2, 2021 to include residents
whowereunabletoattendorwereTheACthencamebacktogetheratcommunity. WILMAPCO was
more comfortable meeting online. Input from the AC meetings was used as the basis to develop a vision for the project, and to help our team prepare for the upcoming community visioning workshop, held in person on November
The project team took the comments from the visioning process and developed some initial ideas for the cap. A second AC meeting was held on March 8 to bring these ideas back to the community for comment and review, and to inform a third public workshop, which was held on April
the concepts. That meeting was immediately followed by another public workshop, again allowing community members to provide input. This input gave the project team the direction needed to craft a where the AC voiced its support. A public workshop was held on
grateful for its collaboration with
community groups, which allowed us to connect with more residents. Through this collaboration, the project team participated in several community events and meetings over the last year, extending the outreach forthestudy.Thepreferredconcept design, along with recordings of all the public workshops, is available on the project website.
To learn more, please visit www.wilmapco.org/i95cap.
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