The Apalachee Regional Planning Council has been awarded a Technical Assistance Grant by the FL Dept. of Economic Opportunity to perform a feasibility study of a trail running between Chattahoochee and Bristol. The feasibility study would determine ...

 

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Apalachee Regional Planning Council

The Apalachee Regional Planning Council announces a public meeting to which all persons are invited.

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, November 3, 2016, 6:00 p.m., Eastern Time

PLACE: Liberty County IFAS Extension Office, 10405 NW Theo Jacobs Way, Bristol, FL 32321

GENERAL SUBJECT MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED: The Apalachee Regional Planning Council has been awarded a Technical Assistance Grant by the FL Dept. of Economic Opportunity to perform a feasibility study of a trail running between Chattahoochee and Bristol. The feasibility study would determine the possibility of the proposed Chattahoochee-to-Bristol (C2B) Trail and linkage of this new trail as an alternative route for the existing Florida National Scenic Trail (FNST).

The trail would hug the eastern bank of the Apalachicola River, running through private and public lands in Gadsden and Liberty counties following the topography of bluffs and ravines of the Apalachicola River. Some of the larger landowners would include The Nature Conservancy, the Northwest Florida Water Management District, the City of Chattahoochee, and Torreya State Park.

Associated with the new C2B Trail development will be a proposal of alternative routes for the existing FNST providing one or more potential alternatives to its current route through the Econfina lands in Bay County eastward to Bristol. The optional route would take a more northern route through Jackson and Gadsden counties passing through or near Marianna, Sneads and Chattahoochee, then turning south following the new C2B Trail to Bristol. This routing of the large-scale reroute would include Florida Caverns, Jackson Blue Springs and Three Rivers State Park as well as the previously mentioned sites. The current section of FNST for which an alternative route is envisioned runs approximately 26 miles along State Road 20.

A copy of the agenda may be obtained by contacting: Joe Crozier, ARPC Environmental Planner, 2507 Callaway Road, Suite 200, Tallahassee, FL 32303, [e-mail], [phone], Ext. 104.