Birds farmers and trailers in response to "Empty recreational facilities within Rockaway Community Park. The park is underutilized due to the presence of mosquitoes."

[Alexander Betser]

Hello Folks!

Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgemere_Landfill#Rockaway_Parks_Conceptual_Plan and recent unsuccessful attempts to attract any mosquitos at Dubos Point ...

... I thought of installing a large number of birdhouses at Dubos Point and Rockaway Community park to attract insect-eating birds. In addition to pest control they may bridge the food gap between abundant insects and raptors.

To utilize undeveloped land and bring in people who might help to install and maintain birdhouses I propose to allow farming at now capped landfill. There's already a Rockaway Youthmarket farm at Beach Channel Dr and Beach 58th St. My Computer Science vision is to leave a buffer zone between farmland and shoreline and interlace inland monoculture parcels with inland pollinator gardens or whatever is needed to provide for biodiversity. I expect soil to be toxic for growing food so farming will require raised beds, geotextile lining or vertical farming.

Another non-mutually-exclusive take on underutilization is a trailer town similarly interlaced with biodiversity parcels and buffered from shoreline. Since "The landfill cannot be developed as parkland or for permanent structures until 2021" and it's the end of 2020 I suspect there are real estate developers who already look for ways to buy this land.

Due to the 170 feet elevation this land is "one of the only sites in the area not in a flood-prone zone" which is an added advantage for either farming or trailer town.

In either scenario land users should be dynamically assigned stewardship of the shoreline segments and biodiversity parcels proportional to the total area of their commercial parcels.

Please share your feedback.

Thank you

[daniel mundy]

As “a point of information “

CB 14 has been discussing the future use of this landfill
for years & any other new ideas would have to go through this process .

I suggest you contact Jonthan Gaska - District Manager .

Thank You.

Dan Mundy Sr

On Oct 19, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Alexander Betser <alex....@gmail.com> wrote:



Hello Folks!

Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgemere_Landfill#Rockaway_Parks_Conceptual_Plan and recent unsuccessful attempts to attract any mosquitos at Dubos Point ...

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... I thought of installing a large number of birdhouses at Dubos Point and Rockaway Community park to attract insect-eating birds. In addition to pest control they may bridge the food gap between abundant insects and raptors.

To utilize undeveloped land and bring in people who might help to install and maintain birdhouses I propose to allow farming at now capped landfill. There's already a Rockaway Youthmarket farm at Beach Channel Dr and Beach 58th St. My Computer Science vision is to leave a buffer zone between farmland and shoreline and interlace inland monoculture parcels with inland pollinator gardens or whatever is needed to provide for biodiversity. I expect soil to be toxic for growing food so farming will require raised beds, geotextile lining or vertical farming.

Another non-mutually-exclusive take on underutilization is a trailer town similarly interlaced with biodiversity parcels and buffered from shoreline. Since "The landfill cannot be developed as parkland or for permanent structures until 2021" and it's the end of 2020 I suspect there are real estate developers who already look for ways to buy this land.

Due to the 170 feet elevation this land is "one of the only sites in the area not in a flood-prone zone" which is an added advantage for either farming or trailer town.

In either scenario land users should be dynamically assigned stewardship of the shoreline segments and biodiversity parcels proportional to the total area of their commercial parcels.

Please share your feedback.

Thank you

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