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Council debates new definition and rules for recreational trails; first reading introduced
Summary
Council members discussed an ordinance to define and regulate recreational trails in the traffic code, treating city-installed paved paths like sidewalks for traffic rules but exempting property owners from maintenance obligations; the measure was introduced for first reading.
Pepper Pike City Council on July 8 held a detailed first-reading discussion of an ordinance to add "recreational trail" to the city's traffic code and to regulate trail use.
City counsel and staff described the measure as a definitional change that would allow the city to apply traffic and usage rules to paved recreational trails the city has installed while clarifying that property owners are not responsible for routine maintenance of those trails. Counsel said the city's existing…
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