The issue has been nagging at Gainesville city officials for more than a year now. We answer with a resounding no. But advocates are looking to replace the little dirt path with an asphalt one, about 10 feet wide and 7.1 miles long. The trail would span from 13th Street, near 39th Avenue, out to Kanapaha past Interstate 75.
City officials keep going in circles over the issue.
Fortunately, the issue could finally come to a close in March, because members of a group fighting to preserve the Greenway have collected enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot in March. The Greenspace Preservation Association is fighting along with the Coalition to Save Gainesville's Greenspaces, which announced Friday that it had collected 5,440 signatures enough to get the issue on the ballot. And we are urging voters to support their cause. There is the obvious reason paving would ruin the environment. Hundreds of trees would be lost, destroying the tree canopy and root system and leaving birds and other critters homeless.