PROJECT OVERVIEW
The City of Attleboro announces that it is updating its Open Space and Recreation Plan (OSRP). The OSRP is a tool the City uses to protect its natural environment, preserve biodiversity and wildlife habitat, improve water quality, upgrade and expand recreational facilities, update its inventory of open space and environmental resources as well as recreational resources and areas, evaluate current policies, goals, and priorities and identify new ones for the maintenance and future needs of such community assets, provide information to the public through text, maps and other forms of illustration, and to help in making important decisions about future open space and recreation opportunities.
The plan must have state approval in order for the City to remain eligible for state grant programs, which can be used for such projects as creating new parks, new playgrounds, acquiring lands to protect critical habitat and ecological resources, and building connections between resources and neighborhoods.