| Condition |
Comments or Compliments |
Park |
Pinelake Park |
| Feature |
Programming |
Scope |
Other |
| Photo |
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Date/Time |
Aug 2 2005 8:02PM |
| Tracking Number |
763 |
| Comments |
LOCATION: Pine Lake Park COMMENTS: Yes, with respect
to Park maintenance, or lack of same, there has not been a full time
gardener assigned to Pine Lake since February of 1999 yet the Park
Department now proposes to spend an extravagant amount of money on
an artificial, arbitrary, restoration project that would be "
implemented" by The Natural Areas Program. I have been involved in
many volunteer clean up projects in that Park that were generated by
the adjacent Community and people worked very hard to address
obvious problems that resulted from a lack of maintenance staffing.
But some years back the Park Department decided to put the Volunteer
Program under the purview of the Natural Areas Program. Potential
volunteers were routinely funneled into the NAP volunteer program
and indoctrinated with that philosophy as though it was Official
Park Policy. Many users of the Park system do not agree with that
philosopy and consequently would no longer consider performing any
volunteer work if it was done under the auspices of NAP. Giving the
NAP greater control over Park land, which is essentially taxpayer
property, could seriously hurt all volunteer programs. In my
experience, NAP does elective work and is not responsive to the
public regarding health, safety and maintenance issues. Furthermore,
they have shown a disturbing tendency to want to make more and more
Park areas "off limits" to the very taxpayers that own the land on
the basis of it being vital to the restoration process. In closing,
I would like to say that I wholeheartedly support the aquisition of
any real natural areas within or adjacent to San Francisco because
this would increase our overall open space for the good of all. But
I do not support the artifical "restoration" of existing Parks that
are well loved and used by all the citizens of our
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