Trumbull Co. panel expects to get grant for park land

The park land would be the first parcel acquired with money approved by voters in November.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — The Trumbull County Planning Commission is expecting approval from the Ohio Public Works Commission to receive another grant for acquisition of park land — this time 143 acres on the east side of North Road along Mosquito Creek in Howland and Warren.

Trish Nuskievicz, assistant planning director, said the land will be the fifth property acquired in recent years by the planning commission in the Mosquito Creek corridor south of Mosquito Lake.

The land, just south of North Road Elementary School, will cost about $900,000 and bring the total acreage preserved along the creek to about 550, she said.

Such land fits with the county’s master plan for land preservation and passive recreation uses, such as walking, hiking, fishing, bird watching or photography.

The land will be eventually turned over to the Trumbull County MetroParks system.

“The goal is to preserve the floodplain corridor,” Nuskievicz said of the land acquisitions, adding that it is nearly impossible to build anything on that type of land.

The grant, if approved, would be the first money Trumbull County has received from the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund since voters approved extending the program at the polls in November.

The four other parcels of preserved land that are already part of the MetroParks system are in Bazetta and Howland, a short distance south of the Mosquito Lake Dam at state Route 305.

One of the better-known parcels is the area adjacent to the Howland Township Park, where the elevated Mosquito Creek Boardwalk was built this year.