Special to the Salem News
YOUNGSTOWN A local legislator has taken aim at the Mill Creek MetroParks’ efforts to acquire rights of way from landowners to complete the third section of the MetroParks bikeway.
State Rep. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, inserted language into the House version of the state budget bill that would prohibit a park district in a county the size of Mahoning from using emmiment domain to establish a recreational trail.
Among the types of trails that would be affected are trails used for hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, ski touring, canoeing or other nonmotorized forms of recreational travel.
The language prohibits such use in a county of 220,000 to 240,000 people as reported in the most recent available federal decennial census, the language states. Mahoning County’s population was 238,787 during the 2010 census and was estimated at 228,683 in 2019, according to the Census Bureau.
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