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Now ask them a question they have to answer.

The letter below is short on purpose. It does not lecture the Council about facts they already have. We have met with them and agree on the landownership, the city's commitment to have more public trails, and what their own study found. Instead it asks two direct questions and your own story, which is the only part nobody else can write.

What did this walk mean to you?

One or two sentences. Who walked here, how long, and what you cannot do now. This is the part they actually read. Let them sit with what we have lost with their inaction.

And your details, so it counts as a constituent

Your name

Your street

This is what marks you as a constituent.

Your letter

To: the Mayor

To, copy these addresses

Subject

Your letter already goes to Mayor Fotheringham and Council Member Sundwall, because the Arbor Lane fence sits in District 1. Adding the member for your own district means one more person has to write back to you.

Add your own council member optional

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