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Council debates wording of recreational-trails ordinance, asks staff to reconcile sidewalk definitions
Summary
Pepper Pike City Council members spent the July 22 meeting probing definitions in Ordinance 2025‑11, asking staff to reconcile inconsistent definitions of “sidewalk” and whether to treat sidewalks as recreational trails for maintenance and liability purposes.
Pepper Pike City Councilors on July 22 asked staff to reconcile inconsistent definitions in Ordinance 2025‑11, the second reading of a measure addressing recreational trails, and discussed whether sidewalks and recreational trails should be treated the same for maintenance and liability.
Councilmember LeMay said he had a “substantive concern” about the ordinance’s definition of “recreational trail,” saying “the way it’s worded now makes it exactly synonymous with sidewalks.” He recommended reconciling two definitions that appear in separate sections of the code…
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