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Landowners and Fairbanks Trails Inc. ask borough for written maintenance agreement for Scarlet Trail
Summary
At the Jan. 27 Trails Advisory Commission meeting, two trail users asked the borough to create a formal maintenance agreement for the Scarlet Trail that includes private landowners, and Fairbanks Trails Inc. said it is seeking a service agreement and intern support for trail work.
Landowners and a local trails nonprofit urged the Fairbanks North Star Borough Trails Advisory Commission on Jan. 27 to develop a written maintenance agreement for the Scarlet Trail that clarifies who may conduct routine maintenance and what qualifies as trail improvements.
The request came during the commission's public-comment period, when Ted Swem, who identified himself as a trail user and property owner on Reindeer Drive, and Stan Justice, president of Fairbanks Trails Incorporated, addressed commissioners with overlapping concerns about maintenance authority and long-term stewardship.
Swem told the commission the Scarlet Trail is “recognized in the new trails plan as the most well known and firmly established trail in the borough trail program,” and asked that…
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