They just finished dealing with that around here with the 22 mile Perkiomen Trail that connects to the Schulkyl River Trail. Landowner opposition held it up for years but they finally pushed it through.
You might do some google searching on that and see what you can learn from their success with those same obstacles.
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas De Quincey