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Volunteers press Sunbury for trail repairs, signage and enforcement after new Goodwill playground work
Summary
Volunteers and a city committee raised multiple safety and maintenance concerns at the Goodwill playground and adjacent trail system, asking the city to install signage, repaint handicap markings, clear drains, cut vegetation, and consider trail cameras and enforcement to deter motorized vehicles.
Volunteers and the Sunbury suite/trail stewardship group used Monday—s council meeting to ask the city to address pedestrian safety and ongoing maintenance at the Goodwill playground and adjacent trail network.
Kurt Sweet, speaking for the stewardship program, reported the group had logged 234 volunteer hours this year and asked the city to install "children at play" signage at a steep stretch of Line Street, repaint faded blue handicap markings and van-access striping in the park parking area, and add painted yellow curb markings at the North Sixth Street lot entrance to keep access clear.
Sweet also asked the city to mark a new midblock crosswalk on Race Street, add signage at trail entrances prohibiting motorized vehicles, and install no-motorized-vehicle signs at the gravel lot, the Race Street entrance and the Lime Street entrance. He said volunteers had found tyre activity on the gravel trails and damaged tree bark and that educational/rules signs that accompany the completed construction have not yet been installed because construction is still underway.
On maintenance, Sweet requested the city scrape and regrade the gravel parking area, remove vegetation that has grown into the gravel, mow or otherwise control grass growth on both sides of the new trail and the embankment trail, and keep the drainage where the wetland drains into the city system on Sixth Street clear to prevent clogging and neighborhood flooding. He said volunteers had already cleared gutters and picked rocks to allow mowers to operate.
Council members and staff discussed enforcement options and timing. Sweet told the council the stewardship group had applied for grant funds that would pay for trail cameras and said the group would use some grant funds to purchase cameras when funding arrives.
City staff acknowledged some work remains tied to ongoing construction and said temporary signage will be installed after construction, that crews would spray grass seeded inadvertently on slopes, and that parking-lot striping and other markings will be completed when construction is finished. The council and staff agreed to keep communication open between the stewardship committee and the city on scheduling of maintenance and sign installation.
