Milford Communities Awarded Grants Toward Trail Development

Milford Township and the Village of Milford are proud recipients of grants to help fund a non-motorized trail through their communities. The trail segments are part of a larger planned system within Oakland County. The grants were awarded by the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan's GreenWays Initiative. The eventual completion of these projects will connect many miles of existing non-motorized trails and provide access to thousands of acres of conservation and recreation lands as well as the Huron River and Mill Pond.

Milford Township received a $75,000 grant to assist in construction of a nearly three-mile, ten-foot-wide, asphalt trail. The proposed trail segment is on property almost entirely owned by the Huron Clinton Metropolitan Authority (HCMA). The segment traverses from north of General Motors Road near the Milford Dam, south across General Motors Road into Kensington Metropark (west of Martindale), and will continue south to the intersection of Milford Road and Huron River Parkway near the Chief Pontiac Trail.

The Village of Milford received a $65,000 grant to assist in the design of an approximately two-mile, non-motorized segment. Two primary segments of the Village's overall non-motorized system will be designed under this grant. The first segment consists of a nearly one-mile, ten-foot wide non-motorized trail from the Milford Dam north through Hubbell Pond Park connecting to the Milford YMCA and the Milford Public Library. The second segment involves the creation of over a mile of five-foot wide, on-road bicycle lanes that will extend through the Milford Central Business District along Commerce Road, East and First Streets, providing connections to Baker Elementary and Muir Middle Schools as well as Highland State Recreation Area. The Village non-motorized system will connect to the Milford Dam where there is an existing pedestrian crossing over the Huron River. This also connects into Milford Township’s planned three-mile trail segment.

The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, founded in 1984, is a permanent community endowment built by gifts from hundreds of individuals and organizations committed to the future of southeast Michigan. The Foundation works to improve the quality of life in southeast Michigan by supporting a wide variety of activities benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development and civic affairs.

Governed by a board of 47 community leaders, the Foundation makes grants to outstanding charitable projects in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, St. Clair, Livingston and Washtenaw counties. The Foundation has assets of $400 million and, since its inception, has distributed more than $199 million in 22,068 grants to nonprofit organizations. The Foundation Web site is www.cfsem.org.

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