[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Alley newspaper did some excellent coverage of the Peavey Park saga and the community desire to keep this park safe and open.
This is a park, school, neighborhood, and public safety issue.
It is, in part, a mystery to me why Commissioners Young and Hauser (natural allies to preserve park and rec areas in Phillips) could not establish a collegial working relationship which could have pushed both Peavey and East Phillips into the light so that they would get the attention they deserve.
It is a mystery to me why both Hauser and Young were not working their political bases to make sure Peavey and East Phillips were nurtured. Between the two of them, they must know everyone from 94 to 46th St. and from 35W to Hiawatha. Making the logical case for Peavey Park among all those citizens would not be difficult.
It is a mystery to me why the MPRB, as a whole, didn't pay attention to where their land was most vulnerable to decay.
It is a mystery to me why Ventura Village NO did not husband Peavey and why EPIC did not husband East Phillips.
It is NO mystery why the school board abandoned that particular school in that particular neighborhood, where parents are so beleaguered trying to hold everything together for their families.
There is no real economic or social point (though a cynical political point) to abandoning progress made against the forces of decay in any section of any city. I would also point out that Ventura Village, if left to crime by budget cuts and political short-sightedness, will revert to even greater disarray, so that the money and effort pumped into it to this date will have been wasted for lack of follow through.
Who are our natural allies in keeping Peavey parky. (Ouch.) The timing on this could not be worse. Vreeland nailed it in saying that we need time to hold the building and park for a feasible, perhaps even extant, plan to be initiated. We also need all hands on deck.
This is a public safety issue as well, because the cost of policing a big piece of mostly vacant land is outrageously expensive so that it negatively affects the cost of policing in both the Third and Fifth Precincts where the pressure is always on the police to be everywhere all at once.
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