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Permanent sprinkler heads installed or is that asking for too much destruction by the future "inhabitants" of the park?
I don't think that you're right:
Looks great. Classy. Definitely not campy so why have fire pits? It's two conflicting designs and there's no need to be sending smoke over the park to choke people that are sensitive to smoke. It would really be something if the smoke drafts into the pavilion and smokes out the Parks Department.
Don't get me wrong. I'd like the freedom to come and go wherever and whenever I pleased. So would everybody. But that's not the way things are now. There is security all over the place. Nobody can hop on an airplane without going through security. Public building have security. The new Parks apartment has security doors before entry is permitted. So why shouldn't the park have a form of security to prevent people from doing whatever and whenever they pleased. Constance believes in laissez-fare access to the park but I'm guessing that she would have something to say if her place of residence didn't have some security and anybody could just walk in whenever and do whatever they pleased.
I am still trying to understand your crusade against the fire pits... The way you talk about them it makes me thing you believe we'll have 4 large-scale coal furnaces blowing heavy smoke 24/7 in the park.
You know what? You've convinced me. In fact, I'd go one step further: there should be a fence around the whole park and no gate. That way, we can be sure that no nefarious activity is happening there.
Smoke is an irritant to people with respiratory challenges such as asthma for one thing. Another is that the ashes left from a fire are messy and will need to be cleaned up by parks staff because nobody who starts a fire will wait until it goes out to clean up the ashes. It's possible that the pits will burn natural gas which would be cleaner than firewood but natural gas is an operating expenditure too. So the budget reason given for cutting out a water feature was bogus imho. Is it possible that fire pits were selected over a water feature because they're a better thematic fit with the renaming of the community?
Great pictures! Thanks for capturing. Sure is humming along. Hopefully those trees all take well and grow big quickly. Will feel a big empty the first few years until they fill in.
