Susie Snedaker alerted me to the strange coincidence that exactly One Year Ago Today, this was the topic on OpenCdA.com:
Susie S: “There are plans…”
“Of course there are plans for McEuen Field. Does the city plan to hold yet more meetings on the development plans now that a number of years have passed since the Walker Macy plan adoption by the city? Best the people keep an eye on the former decrepit tennis court area. I find it curious that the courts are suddenly demolished as they certainly have been sitting there unused for months and months and months. They certainly were not an example of the city’s attention to detail for citizens and visitors.” (posted by Susie Snedaker, 1/27/10)
If you want to see the comments from that topic one year ago, just click here: 10 Comments from 1/27/10
I remember hiking on Tubbs Hill in November of 2009 and seeing that the tennis courts were suddenly, gone. Before Thanksgiving and I posted some comments about it. It seems as if the city trys to slide things under the radar, when the public least expects it; just like when their plans about McEuen Field come out right before Christmas, when people are preoccupied with the holidays.I expect that the CDA City Council will vote on the McEuen Park proposal, alittle after the city council elections next fall.And will there be a ballpark figure on the costs?
Comment by kageman — January 30, 2011 @ 5:51 pm
Now everyone is commenting in the old comments section. Oh well…you’ll have to click on that link to read them!
Comment by mary — January 30, 2011 @ 6:42 pm
Sorry, I shoulda clicked back over here. My bad 🙂
Comment by concerned citizen — January 30, 2011 @ 6:50 pm
kageman,
Doug Eastwood, the City’s alleged Parks Director, is a proponent of programmed blight. Let something like the tennis courts deteriorate from lack of maintenance, then the LCDC can come to the rescue. The people that like Person Field should be very, very afraid if they see Eastwood anywhere nearby. They can be sure he’s from the government and (not) there to help them.
Comment by Bill — January 30, 2011 @ 6:58 pm
Kage: My guess is that the City Council slides this over to the LCDC by the end of April. If they wait until November, then the City Council elections will be a referendum on McEuen itself. If so, the incumbents and hand-picked head-nodder replacements will lose. I figure the Mayor would rather gamble three council seats and get her dream now than risk losing it in the fall.
Comment by Dan — January 31, 2011 @ 8:40 am
Ain’t it just something…..
How the mayor’s personal yes-boy, Parks Director of the Millennium allowed the McEuen Tennis Courts to disintegrate due to a 100% neglect by his staff? I mean, how do you miss taking care of tennis courts that sit right outside of City Hall’s doors?
If that is not “blight” by design, I don’t know what is. (I call it abuse of power)
What a charade. Anyone who does not believe this whole Park Design and supposed “Public Input” is anything more than a dog and pony show is pure ignorant.
Comment by CDAShenanigans — January 31, 2011 @ 6:22 pm
I personally talk to every person I meet each day no matter if they live in CdA or not. I ask them to be at the meetings and demand a vote either way. The message needs to get out. Again, it is to bad the press is not a REAL “community” newspaper.
Comment by concerned citizen — January 31, 2011 @ 6:44 pm
concerned citizen,
Good for you! Your efforts to encourage citizen participation in our government is exactly what it takes to overcome the apathy that prevails among many of our neighbors. Most people are, I think, familiar with a quotation attributed to Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller, a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor:
We all need to speak out now.
Comment by Bill — January 31, 2011 @ 8:03 pm
“I figure the Mayor would rather gamble three council seats and get her dream now than risk losing it in the fall”.Comment by Dan — January 31, 2011 @ 8:40 am
Your probably right, but remember there could be one retirement looming on the council this year and I wouldn’t consider any headnodder replacement as having an advantage in the CDA city council elections imo.
Comment by kageman — February 2, 2011 @ 5:31 pm
And did they not eventually come for Pastor Niemoller Bill? A wonderful quote that I often bring to mind. I have never believed in not rocking the boat when needed. But in this idiot town, it just seems to make me seasick.
Comment by rochereau — February 3, 2011 @ 10:17 am