Photo provided Graphic of replat and proposed easement for Abbey Place subdivision.
Those talking a walk through part of Abbey Place will have a new path to take.
The Board of Public Works and Safety on Tuesday signed-off on a replat of section one of Abbey Place major subdivision, along with a pedestrian path easement.
The easement follows the route of an existing path that was built in one of the neighborhood’s private parks.
Not only will the easement allow the public to use the path, it also could serve as an extension for a future expanded path network in the area, according to the planning department.
Planning officials, who initiated the replat reached out to Arbor Homes, the subdivision developer and controlling interest in the Abbey Place homeowner’s association, which agreed to grant the easement, city/county Planning Director Jeff Bergman told board members.
“As we, as a city, continued bike-ped planning city wide, one of the observations made for the current bicycle and pedestrian plan was that there may be benefits to public use of portion of those trails in Abbey Place in that they could provide a broader connection within that neighborhood.”
2022’s Columbus Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan identifed the potential role the path could take in the wider network, Bergman said.
“With other improvements, it would provide a crucial, direct connection for residents of Abbey Place, Princeton Park, and Sutter Place to a planned People Trail connection to the downtown envisioned adjacent to Indianapolis Road,” Bergman wrote in a memo to board members.
