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• Page 2 <br /> • And every day, I see children playing in the playground (not one foot <br /> from the path!). Do you really think they will be aware of signs and <br /> symbols and arrows? <br /> Walking should be a safe and free excursion, an opportunity for mind, body <br /> and spirit to sample all that nature freely gives, an exhilarating and joyful <br /> experience—stress-free, fear-free, safe. To compromise that is to defeat <br /> its very purpose. <br /> Why then, would we consider depriving walkers? <br /> Are we being overly sensitive to the possibility of opposition? I recall the <br /> meeting last year when we discussed paving the path. Commission <br /> members expressed their surprise when there was no opposition. With <br /> almost twenty-five people attending, NOT ONE was opposed to the <br /> paving of the path. The expectation failed to materialize. <br /> Could we not now designate the path for walkers only? <br /> IDIF opposition occurs, we can reassess. We can deal with it <br /> when and IF it becomes a reality...and not an imagined <br /> factor. <br /> Are we coming at the problem from an erroneous angle? Do we think <br /> we're depriving bikers and skaters of something...when in reality, they <br /> never had it in the first place? This has always been a walker's path! If <br /> anything, we are depriving walkers of the safe, stress-free, nature-bound <br /> path that has been theirs for over ten years! <br /> I don't know where bikers and skaters have biked and skated <br /> in the past. But,just because the path "is now there," is simply <br /> not a logical reason to give it over to them. <br /> Things don't have their place. When you build a volleyball court, you don t draw <br /> a line down the center and offer half of it to tennis players. When you <br /> construct a softball field, you don't invite volleyball players to hoist their <br /> net in the center of it. Subtly, we're dealing with the same issues, here. <br /> • My contention is that rapidly-propelled bodies (skaters) and fast-moving <br />