The pavement in the blueway in this section has not yet been built and has much more of natural feel. How about keeping it this way? The natural surface of the trail has a lot of advantages - aesthetically, emotionally, physically in terms of balance and exercise - and would probably work well for barefoot hiking too.
Another major advantage of the natural dirt surface is that it makes it difficult and inconvenient to use ebikes here. Ebikes can use the parallel roadway less than 200m to the west.