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RecreationandParkCommission | 2019-09-12 | 63 | From: Karen Larsen To: Amy Wooldridge Subject: Jackson Park Date: Thursday, September 12, 2019 10:14:32 AM *** CAUTION: This email message is coming from a non-City email address. Do not click links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Please contact the Help Desk with any questions. *** Hello Amy, I hope to be able to attend the meeting tonight and add my opposition to adding a playground Jackson Park. Before moving forward with adding a playground I think it is important to keep the commitment made many years ago to spend money on repair and upkeep. It is particularly important to have a long range plan to replace trees with finite lives. I am afraid there will eventually be a wholesale removal of trees changing the character and object of the Park. I know the funds slated for the play area do not come from the maintenance budget. All the more reason for those who have been waiting for appropriate upkeep and repair to be upset with the playground decision. I sent an email in early July to your department asking when the giant stump left after the latest tree was taken down would be removed and replaced. Since there was a sign placed by ARPD on the stump advising that this was going to happen I wanted to know when. I did not receive a reply. I was there the day an ARPD employee dropped by the Park, met a fellow, and pointed to the tree that was subsequently removed. No notice was given to anyone. On the same day the tree was removed. While the tree may have needed to be removed, it was in the same condition on that day as it had been for years. I hope you will forgive my cynicism, but I think that the tree was removed to make way for a play area about which no appropriate public input effort was undertaken. I do understand that parents want to have areas for their children to play. Jackson Park is already being used for that purpose. There just aren't play structures. In an earlier email to you I suggested that a ring of benches might be appropriate. Parents could watch the children and get to know one another. Thank you for your time and any effort you undertake to insure that money is directed appropriately. Best Regards Karen Larsen 1206 Park Avenue. Sent from my iPhone | RecreationandParkCommission/2019-09-12.pdf |