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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...

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.

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