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There is a sidewalk up 14th St. all the way to Kirkwood; its on the south side of 14th St.[/quote]
I’ll double check when I walk to school tomorrow but I’m pretty sure you are wrong.  14th streets side walk on the south is cracked and has tree roots pulling up on one side, and then has half a block where it doesn’t exist.  On the side closer to the school, it doesn’t go all the way to kirkwood.  That and that hill is is really steep.  There needs to be a ramp added to the stairs for handicapped parents and parents with small children/strollers, or you can’t expand the walk zone past kirkwood.  Either that or set up a crosswalk with a light at 13th street.
It’s a safety issue— you might be ok crossing it but think about literally hundreds of kids doing it on a daily basis.  Someone is going to get hurt.  And then people will point to this and say that aps put us in this position by saying if you inflate your walker numbers you will get to keep your school.[/quote]

Honestly, pp, I think you are just literally trying to come up with roadblocks here. Kids and parents can cross Kirkwood with a crossing guard, kids and parents can walk up and down those stairs as they are currently designed, kids and parents can walk up and down 14th on the one side that has a sidewalk even if, gasp, it is a steep hill, and the school has existed for how many years already without a ramp at the back entrance so I don’t see how that would all of a sudden be required.[/quote]

+100.  There may be reasons to make Key a neighborhood school, but the inability of people to walk to ASFS from Lyon Village doesn't appear to be one.[/quote]

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