The subdivision has three walking trails leading to a park. These walking trails are in a common area that are separated from the houses with a wall.
The walking trails have separate lighting, have trees, and bushes along the way. They are used by the residents to walk their dogs, exercise, and take walks.
I nominated them and they keep getting rejected.
I use the criteria:
- a great place for exercise
- a great place for exploration
- safely accessible by pedestrians
- permanent and physical place
- hiking trails
- biking trails
I keep getting these rejected. How can I improve the nominations?
welcome to the forum!
it might help us to advise you if you provide screenshots of your nomination, including the rejection reasons. trails and walking paths that don’t have signs are much harder to get accepted, but not impossible. this one may be more difficult because the surface just looks like a regular sidewalk.
It says The submission lacks uniqueness or historical and cultural meaning, or just a generic “wayfarer criteria”
I mentioned three trails that lead to the park. Each of them rejected for no reason.
Here is a satellite view of part of one of the trails: at the top are houses. Then a wall - with no entry. A bunch of trees/bushes. Then a sidewalk. Then a bunch of trees/bushes. Then another wall with no entry. Then the bottom part are houses.
These trails are common areas of the subdivision. They fit the exercise criteria. People walk their dogs down these trails. People ride their bikes, jog and walk down these trails.
I don’t think I will be able to help with these. Without a sign labelling them as anything special, they look like sidewalks to me. Convenient, yes but just infrastructure, and not a great destination for exercise, exploration, or being social, the three pillars of criteria for a wayspot.
If you have any links calling these trails or promoting these as greenways or a civic project or something like that, we can talk more.
Or maybe someone else will have a different viewpoint and be able to suggest something.
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There is a sign that says “Sierra Tempe Residents Only” at the end of them.
I nominated them and they were rejected for “wayfarer criteria”
Hi @PKMNAgentCTB
Welcome to the forum 
You have only shown the main photos and the rejection reasons of your other rejected nominations. From that I’d reject “vista” and “jeanine” for the photo (too dark). The trail marker sign I’d reject for being not distinct (that is not a trail marker sign but it could be used as an anchor for a trail but the naming stays wrong). For “Amanda” the orientation of your dark photo seems a bit off.
That’s in addition to what Cyndie already have said.
A trail needs to be back uped somehow (signs or links). If you’re able to find anything official do add it.
Hello @PKMNAgentCTB
I can see why you are feeling frustrated by the rejections.
I have had a look at the area and see that it is a modern estate with roads curving round to create maximum use of the area whilst creating some privacy, and also preventing straight through routes. The pavements alongside the roads are quite narrow.
So I can see why the planners also included foot/cycle paths to enable pedestrians to take shorter more pleasant walks. The lovely park does seem to be the focus of these paths.
I’ve marked up the paths so we can see the context better. I think the actual streetview at the junction of Beck and Amanda is the location of the Amanda lane Trail. This is a simple short passageway it is not a trail. I wonder if the Jeanine trail is the other short passageway that is alongside the park? It’s hard to tell because of the photo quality.
The darker paths I’ve marked are what I presume to be Knox (east-west) and Vista (north -south). They are not what I would describe as trails, but alternatives to the pavements, which is probably why there is no signage.
I can see there is potential if these were in an official walking loop with the signage to encourage people to walk a loop of a certain distance. Perhaps this is something you can raise in your local community as a project to encourage healthy lifestyles?
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Yes, one is from Knox to the park and the other is Hardy to the park. I renominated them including a more detailed description.
I’ll also raise the signage issue at the next meeting. What kind of information should be on the sign to indicate this is a walking loop?
The north south one on Vista is in a different subdivision, so they won’t listen to outsiders in their meeting.
