Since the 1995 Plan , several greenways efforts have been implemented including the Butchertown Greenway and Beargrass Creek Greenway which have been constructed . Funding has been secured to build a greenway trail at A . B . Sawyer Park , and 27 additional acres were acquired adjacent to A . B . Sawyer Park known as the Forest Green Trail where an existing softsurface path is located along Beargrass Creek . Land was purchased for a Clifton Heights Greenway . In addition , a Southwest Greenways Plan was developed in 2009 that lays out plans for a network of paths in southwest Louisville using a combination of MSD easements , ROW , and existing parkland and trails .
At a local ( neighborhood ) scale , a variety of mechanisms such as urban design guidelines were to be implemented to connect future development to the open space system , effectively extending the open space system into the urban fabric . The open space system was not to be seen as separate from future development , but rather as the threads which organize and bind it together . Thus private back yards , neighborhood parks , and schools would be connected by neighborhood streets and footpaths to the parkways and greenways , which in turn would connect to the larger parks and preserve areas .
C2 . Greenway Trails and the County Loop
One important component of the open space system was the proposal to incorporate public trails along as many of the greenways as possible . The greenway corridors proposed by the Stream Corridor / Greenway Plan consist of approximately 1,019 miles of blueline streams as defined by the United States Geological Service plus their regulatory floodplains . The major greenway corridors proposed by the Greenway Plan include Pond Creek , Lower Mill Creek , the Middle , Muddy , and South Forks of Beargrass Creek , Pennsylvania Run , Cedar Creek , Floyds Fork , Goose Creek , and Harrods Creek . The plan states , as an objective , that hiking and biking trails be developed along some of the greenways . To implement this objective , the plan recommended that “ public-use greenways ” be designated and developed with public access or entry areas , public trails , and other amenities that serve a public purpose .
As mentioned above , since the 1995 Plan , several greenways efforts have proceeded including the Butchertown and Beargrass Creek Greenways which have been constructed . Funding has been secured to build a greenway trail at A . B . Sawyer Park and LMPRD acquired 27 acres adjacent to the park known as the Forest Green Trail where an existing soft-surface path is located along Beargrass Creek . A study that would connect the Butchertown Greenway with the older Beargrass Creek Greenway at Irish Hill will start in 2016 . A Southwest Greenways Plan was developed in 2009 that lays out plans for a network of paths in southwest Louisville and was adopted by Louisville Metro Council in 2013 .
As part of Louisville ’ s trail and greenway system , the 1995 Parks and Open Space Master Plan recommended that a perimeter loop trail be developed ( See Figure V . C . 1 : 2020 Parks and Open Space Concept Plan ). This trail , now known as the Louisville Loop , would extend along the much of the length of the Ohio River . ( Connections across the River to the Falls of the Ohio River
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