PERRYSBURG – The city is going to install a multi-use trail between Green Lane and Orleans Park.
The mile-long elevated trail will include a 10-feet-wide asphalt path that will cost the city $923,733.25.
City council approved the project at its Tuesday meeting.
Work of the trail will start next spring, according to Councilwoman Kerry Wellstein, who chairs council’s service committee.
It is expected to be completed in November 2025, she said.
“It will be wonderful,” she said.
The trail will travel from Green Lane, which is at the Commodore Perry statue, through the wooded area to the end of the existing path on the north side of the parking lot at Orleans Park. It will replace a mowed trail, Wellstein said.
“You’ll be able to bike on it and walk on it,” she said, and added the trail will be about one mile long.
“It’s the missing link,” said Councilman Mark Weber.
He explained the trail will connect downtown Perrysburg with the bridge over the Maumee and onto Side Cut Metropark in Maumee.
It has been a long-term plan to install the trail, said Mayor Tom Mackin.
The contract includes the paving, excavation, construction of boardwalk, seeding and mulching, clearing, erosion control and other related items.
The city received three bids and chose Weber Contracting, Archbold, to do the work.
On Aug. 28, the service committee unanimously approved advancement of this bid award to city council in the amount of $839,757.50 plus a 10% contingency. The amount originally budgeted for this project was $700,000.
In September, the finance committee approved forwarding to council a budget amendment in the amount of $223,733.25. Council subsequently approved this budget amendment and additional appropriation.
In other action, council:
• Heard Brody Walters, planning and zoning administrator, report on a rezoning request of two parcels on West River Road from S-1 (scenic and open space) to R-1 (single family residential). Mark Rich, owner, wants the change to allow him to place fill dirt to build the property up above the flood plain in order to add housing.
Kam Warner, West River Road, protested the change and stated the request was not consistent with what other homeowners have done in the West River corridor.
“The landowner knew what they were buying and created their own problem by opting to not build in the residential zoned portion,” she said.
The proposal goes against the city’s Land Use Plan, which Rich participated in creating, she said.
• Declared a 1998 Ford E-250 and 2004 Ford E-250 XL Super Cab, currently used by the department of public utilities, as no longer needed.
• Approved the purchase of a Peterbilt model 567 truck for the department of public utilities for $260,000.
