Welcome to the Westfield Connections Home Page!

What's going on

Should tourism become a larger part of our local economy? If so, will local efforts focus on agri-tourism, cultural tourism, heritage tourism or a blend of various tourism components? What will the community need to do to connect and build upon its assets locally and regionally?

    

Who's involved so far

An ad hoc committee comprised of members of the Village and  Town boards, planning boards, staff and the Westfield Development Corporation have begun a joint community planning and design process to work with the community to explore these questions.

We need your help

The group, working with Dudley Breed, a landscape architect and community planner, will perform a series of workshops to solicit community input. Community design workshops allow a citizen an opportunity to view sketches of design proposals and provide input. Community members' input is then used to refine design alternatives to help reach consensus.                            

Progress in the making

The initial workshops will focus on the potential to develop the NYS Thruway exit into a gateway that acts as an entrance to the community and the region. Mr. Breed will propose a series of potential projects and concepts for the area surrounding the exit and along the North Portage Gateway Corridor.  The initial sketches will be posted at Eason Hall and the Patterson Library.

This initial workshop is scheduled for May 13th from 7 to 9p.m. at Eason Hall in Westfield. All interested citizens are welcome and encouraged to attend the workshop. Community members with questions regarding the community design workshops may contact Vince Luce at 326-4961 or Linda Briggs at 326-3211. The "Westfield Connections" community design project is funded in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. 

     

   E-mail the ad hoc committee with any questions or concerns you may have about this great process.

  

 

 

 

 

Trail Marker (concept) for the Portage Trail

 

Various conceptual sketches by Dudley Breed, Landscape Architect

North Portage Street concept drawing (facing east)