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Norwood committee weighs options to restore walking path at Coakley complex
Summary
A longtime recreation official urged the Norwood School Building Committee to restore a walking path around the Coakley/Cokley school fields. Project staff presented four routing options and recommended getting order-of-magnitude pricing and fire-department review before the committee selects a path.
Jerry Miller, a longtime Norwood recreation department official, urged the Norwood School Building Committee on March 10 to complete a walking path that runs behind the Cokley/Coakley school fields and connect it to new sidewalks being built with the middle-school project.
“We built a walking path, and we put exercise equipment around all the quarters … two-thirds of it,” Miller said during public comment, and asked whether the committee could restore the portion lost to the new school construction so residents could continue to use the facility.
Project staff told the committee they have studied four options: restore the original field-level path (orange line), a route that cuts through parts of two fields (red and yellow…
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