Beautification
Keep Carbondale Beautiful actively encourages beautification of residences and businesses through the Bright Spot Award and the Tree Sale. Beautification makes Carbondale more welcoming to prospective home-buyers and businesses and is sign of economic well-being. Even if a city is entirely functional and livable, there is always something additional to be gained when efforts are taken to enhance aesthetic value through buildings that enhance neighborhood pride and through well-maintained greenery.
Go to Tree Sale page.
Can we have too many trees?!?Each year, KCB devotes a chunk of its grant money to planting more trees along the streets of Carbondale. According to James Howard Kunstler, there are four functions of street trees:
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The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear Check out this article from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?_r=0 . America in Bloom has a series on
PLANTS: They're more than just pretty. One video shows that THEY REDUCE CRIME Watch that - and their other seriously silly videos. |
Beautification projects - ongoing:
--Bright Spot Awards
--Native Plant Gardens along Piles Fork Creek
at Grand Avenue in progress
at Dorthella in progress
--Garden tours - first Sunday in June
--Alternatives to Lawns workshop - July 30, 2016
--Bright Spot Awards
--Native Plant Gardens along Piles Fork Creek
at Grand Avenue in progress
at Dorthella in progress
--Garden tours - first Sunday in June
--Alternatives to Lawns workshop - July 30, 2016
What would you do to make Carbondale more beautiful?
On November 4, 2013,
months of surveying Carbondale residents
culminated in a Town Meeting.
The participating groups generated 49 ideas. The top 5 were:
1. Bury lines (phone/power) and use Streetscape planning (downtown and all around town)
2. Plant flowering trees at 4 major entrances to Carbondale (13 E&W/51 N&S)
3. Add plantings to medians (Mill Street and 51)
4. Conduct Sustainability Assessment for Carbondale (Whole city)
5. Create a Dog Park (in Carbondale)
A1: View or download the final report.
A full report was sent to the Carbondale City Council and the Downtown Advisory Committee.
1. Bury lines (phone/power) and use Streetscape planning (downtown and all around town)
2. Plant flowering trees at 4 major entrances to Carbondale (13 E&W/51 N&S)
3. Add plantings to medians (Mill Street and 51)
4. Conduct Sustainability Assessment for Carbondale (Whole city)
5. Create a Dog Park (in Carbondale)
A1: View or download the final report.
A full report was sent to the Carbondale City Council and the Downtown Advisory Committee.
