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by artisinal 13 days ago
It’s not just policing the grass. You have to be ADA compliant, you can’t have inclines too steep, you need sight lines with other traffic. There are many reasons a path is created somewhere.

Just look at the picture below and how the desire path could end up hurting the tree roots. You would also have a decreased sight line with traffic coming from the right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path#/media/File:Desire...

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Those are reasons to have the path.

Other than the tree roots which lands a bit pearl clutchy to me, they aren't reasons to police people off their preferred route.