On the agenda for tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting, approving construction of a trail from Olympic Place to Mead Road in Oakhurst.  The trail was spurred by the Paty family providing an easement for the trail a year ago.  The proposed budget for the trail is currently $70,000, which will pay for “a new slate chip trail, new privacy fences, a stone wall and new plantings.”

Where else around Decatur could the city and its residents install walking trails to increase connectivity?

A path stretching following Peavine Creek from Westchester Elementary to Trinity Place (behind the Marlay and Post Office) is an idea that has been thrown around here before – despite the acknowledged difficulty/feasibility of such a long, impactful trail.  What else ya got?

I guess this is what is meant by LATE breaking news.  Get your Decatur City Commission news four days later!  It’s like a cellared craft beer, it improves with age.  :-/

At Monday’s City Commission meeting, the commissioners accepted a conservation easement in order to build a trail between Ansley and Olympic Place.  The item on the agenda reads as such…

The purpose of this memo is to recommend that the City Commission authorize the Mayor to execute all documents necessary to accept a conservation easement for the  purposes of building a trail on the properties at 535 Ansley Street and 238 Olympic Place.  The City Commission authorized funding to obtain surveys, legal services and trail designs  for up to three trails on Olympic Place. The owners of the property at the end of Olympic  Place, Fisher and Karen Paty, have donated a 10 foot wide conservation easement on their  property to connect Ansley Street and Olympic Place. This easement area will be used for a trail that the City will construct and maintain.