Village of Great Neck Plaza trustees will hold a public information meeting on the draft design plans for the Maple Drive Sustainable Parking Lot project at 8 p.m. on July 1, the village announced Thursday.
“We are thrilled to have been awarded this grant and to be collaborating with other levels of government to reconstruct the Maple Drive lot using green infrastructure techniques,” said Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender in a statement. “Such ‘greening’ includes an innovative porous pavement element to collect/recharge rainwater on-site to the aquifers, thus improving water quality.”
“The project also looks to install new LED lighting, solar metering stations and new landscaping with trees and low-maintenance vegetation,” she went on to say in the statement.
Redeveloping the lot with porous pavement and other green initiatives will improve stormwater runoff and minimize flooding, the village said.
The Maple Drive lot will be updated with the help of a $675,000 Green Innovation Grant Program from the state Environmental Facilities Corporation.
The village hopes to begin construction on the project in late summer or early fall.
In February, village trustees selected Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants to do the engineering work for the Maple Drive Sustainable Parking Lot project.
Celender said in February that Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants offered to do the work for a little less than $100,000 — the amount the village had allocated for the engineering work on the project.
