Mental Reset and Anxiety Reduction

The best thing about Nine Mile Creek is the quiet within a city. When I'm at the end of my rope, Nine Mile Creek gives me a place to go where there are no man-made sounds or stimuli. Sitting next to the rocks listening to the water, or walking the path restores my mental health.

This refuge would be destroyed by adding a bike lane and widening the paths. The addition of bicycle traffic would destroy the quiet, and adding a path will turn Nine Mile Creek into a fast bicycle cut through. Instead, let's keep the designated bike lanes to the roads that tax money was used to install. Those bike lanes get you to larger parks where bike paths are more appropriate. What's next after adding bicycle lanes in Nine Mile Creek? Will off road bike paths be added? What about paths for segways? I'm seeing people in the neighborhood riding those.

I would like someone to explain how adding to nature is interpreted into tearing down the landscape and adding material not natural to the setting? Horse riding trails have been pushed out of parks to allow for bike and pedestrian traffic. Now we are trying to push out few areas limited to only pedestrian traffic just to add more bikes.

Since a proposed plan for these taxes was not presented at the time of voting, any monies not being used towards restoring and protecting the the natural woodlands, wetlands, prairies, and waters along Nine Mile Creek needs to be voted upon by the residents of Bloomington. Detailed plans on how the monies would be used needs to be transparently disclosed. These projects would be anything that is marked for widening trails, adding bike paths, and introducing other recreational features. etc. I'm really tired of the smoke and mirrors magic act when sliding through tax increases. Side deals are slid in as addendums, we want to tax you for improvements but never you mind what we decided those improvements to be....we are just asking to make you feel included. Why are Bloomington taxes higher than Minnetonka?

Please, just stop. Not everything needs a bike path.