Donna Rotman's frustration with the roads of Pepper Pike may have come to a head in 2011. Rotman, a retired school secretary who raised her family there in her home on Pinetree, had just gotten a puppy — a black lab named Watson — and was eager to walk the dog around the neighborhood.
To have sidewalks or to not have sidewalks? That is the question Pepper Pike residents will decide next week.Rotman, a retired school secretary who raised her family there in her home on Pinetree, had just gotten a puppy — a black lab named Watson — and was eager to walk the dog around the neighborhood. Because Pepper Pike has few, if any, sidewalks, Rotman was forced to either walk in the street or on the margin.
As city planners across the country rethink downtowns in light of the pedestrian, rather than the car, the issue of walkability has extended to exurbs and suburbs somewhat new to the concept. There have been, not surprisingly, some clashes. Regardless of the apparent boon to dogwalkers, joggers and teenagers on their way to Orange High School, a political split has divided neighbors, with a sort of battle of preferences for safety versus aesthetics. Such sides, evinced in lawn signs that pockmark the city's main roads—one with a red prohibition sign—have received funding by two political action committees: Pepper Pike for Walkability and Preserve Pepper Pike.
"The argument that people would walk along major roads, rather than take a car, is unrealistic and flawed," a respondent living on Bolingbrook, who declined to give their age, wrote."Some people want it both ways. Moving here for green, quiet, rural character but also wanting sidewalks. That is unrealistic. If they want sidewalks, select a city that has them.
Over on Lander and South Woodland, where"Vote Yes" signs slightly outweighed the other side, that was pretty much the case.
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