Janette Komoda Kim
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc
Pougkeepsie, NY
2011-12
Scope (1) Report and Master Plan for public greenways across the Fall Kill (2) Design and feasibility study for 3 pilot sites (3) Handbook to help residents, city agencies, businesses, and local institutions relate green infrastructure practices to their land use needs (4) Signage design and installation, completed July 2012 (5) Public signage installation in the creek’s first pilot rain garden, 2014.
Design TeamJanette Kim/Urban Landscape Lab (team coordinator and urban designer) with research/design assistants Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Eliza Montgomery, Marianne Koch, Caroline Ellise, John Buonocore, Sydney Talcott, and Meg Kelly; Matthew Slaats at PAUSE (Poughkeepsie-based community outreach leader); Eric Rothstein at eDesign Dynamics (habitat and hydrology specialist); Alice Feng at Landmine Studio (landscape designer)
Partner Community Organizations and Municipal AgenciesCommittee Members: Andrew Sawtelle (Hudson River Housing), Bob Mallory (City of Poughkeepsie Common Council, 3rd Ward), Ed Glisson (Mid Hudson Children’s Museum), Elizabeth Celaya (Hudson River Housing), Harvey Flad (Vassar College), Jeff Anzevino (Scenic Hudson), Joe Chenier (City of Poughkeepsie Engineering Department), Nancy Cozeen (Upper Landing Committee), Roy Budnik (Mid Hudson Heritage Center), John Mylod (City Resident, Fisherman).
To initiate the implementation of the Fall Kill Plan, we created a handbook to help residents, city agencies, businesses, and local institutions relate green infrastructure practices to their land use needs.