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[quote=Anonymous]I’m the pp who’s quoted above.
Again, I don’t live in cherrydale or Lyon village and want nothing to do with your community.   I don’t care if you expand the asfs walk zone.  Seriously I don’t.
My only thought is that the county should err on the side of caution when expanding these walk zones.  The aps staff was really trusting surveys and the members of the task force.  I really don’t think they are doing very much independent verification.
Reading the responses of the asfs survey, there were two trains of thought:
1.  Of course no one walks because it’s neighborhood is not zoned for the school and everything within a mile should be zoned for it because they can walk.
2.  Kirkwood, Lee highway, and wash blvd are too busy to cross.  
Again I don’t live there, but the first poster who said that there were safety concerns and got beat up on appears to be in the second camp.  The rest of you appear to be in the first.  The fact that there are even camps in this discussion indicates that it warrants further study and since Aps doesn’t have time to do that, it probably shouldn’t be expanded.
I don’t know the specifics about sidewalks being contiguous or not, but the concerns about handicap access should be addressed.  If the route advocated to justify an expanded walk zone involves a steep set of stairs with no walkable alternative from that direction, you need to add a ramp or have a handicap accessible route from that direction.  It doesn’t matter if there are other entrances— that is the entrance being advertised as the safe route from that direction.  Again I don’t live there but you all shouldn’t shout down safety concerns.  [/quote]

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