By DAVID CRUZ

The plan to see a massive rehab project for Mosholu Parkway advanced some after Community Board 7 approved a letter for local elected officials, requesting they jump on momentum to see the rehabilitation of the green parkway.

The unanimous vote cleared a path for a letter to be sent to Council Members Andrew Cohen and Ritchie Torres, who share unequal representation of the parkway, that seeks their support in renovating Mosholu Parkway. The request for support comes at a time when community stakeholders and institutions are mulling over details of a massive rehabilitation project for Mosholu Parkway. Cost for this rehabilitation project runs around $50 million when factoring inflation rates from an original $23 million price tag to a plan announced in 2007. The current estimates could fluctuate given requests made by the public.

The vote shortly came after the Board heard from Sheila Sanchez, president of the Friends of Williamsbridge Oval, who reminded the Board that any letter drafted to elected officials must first be published onto the Board’s official website for a month prior to its approval and delivery.

“It’s in the bylaws and it should be followed,” said Sanchez, reading off a prepared letter she drafted. “I firmly believe that any letter that’s going to be written about the parkway must include community input. I believe, like in the [Kingsbridge] Armory, we should have a community agreement.”

The Board’s letter marks another step to a long road for the Mosholu Parkway rehabilitation project. Community leaders, along with local institutions, met last month to pore over the 2007 blueprints for Mosholu Parkway. The plan fizzled out during the Bloomberg administration, with the de Blasio administration placing little emphasis on this project.

The original 2007 plan, conceived by the Department of Design and Construction, focused on the main thoroughfare. Park advocates have pressed Cohen and Torres to incorporate the service roads and the intersection of Webster Avenue and East Mosholu Parkway South to the rehabilitation project, given its popularity as a pedestrian pathway.

“It’s disappointing,” said Sanchez, wishing the Board had at least considered community input prior to passing it. Her hope is Cohen and Torres, who will host an April 29 forum on Mosholu Parkway, will gauge the public over its wish list for the park. “I believe that Andrew and Ritchie will do their best to do what the community want.”