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• To: The Mounds View Parks & Recreation Commission <br /> cc: His Honor, The Mayor <br /> City Council members <br /> Re: The newly-paved path around Silver View Lake <br /> Thank you for taking my letter into consideration at your last meeting. I <br /> especially commend Rich Sonterre and other commissioners for trying to <br /> work out a compromise for the newly-paved path around Silver View <br /> Lake. Although I admire that effort, I would be remiss if I did not make a <br /> further attempt on behalf of walkers. <br /> As I thought about it, it occurred to me that some things shouldn't be <br /> compromised; some thing can't be compromised. So, I hope you'll give <br /> serious consideration to further thought/observation/evidence, along with <br /> my plea to designate the path a "walking only" path, and to do so quickly. <br /> I live right on the path. My computer is situated near a window that <br /> overlooks the path, and most of the day (for over ten years), I have (had) <br /> the opportunity to observe what occurs along my part of the path. <br /> In the past I have observed walkers as I will never see them again if you <br /> open this path to bikers and skaters: <br /> • I remember two young mothers with their babies in strollers, walking <br /> along two-abreast, chatting gaily...freely...without the fear that <br /> something mechanical might come AT them from around the bend. They <br /> will never be able to do that again...freely. <br /> • I remember a family of five; the parents were walking briskly and the <br /> three children were—well, doing what children do—hopping, jumping, <br /> fooling around, chasing each other, on and off the path... freely...without <br /> the threat of something suddenly speeding AT them. They will never be <br /> able to do that again...freely. <br /> • I remember a holiday, Thanksgiving Day, I think, a day when one eats a <br /> hearty meal and then feels the need to work it off. An older couple were <br /> walking along with someone who might have been their grandson. They <br /> were strolling three abreast, chatting happily...not having to be alert for a <br /> • fast-moving object coming AT them. They will never be able to do that <br /> again...freely. <br />