Park Proposals
Henry Chu, in his Sept. 14 article “Park Proposals Are No Picnic,” quoted Steven Soboroff, head of the city’s Recreation and Parks Commission, as follows: “Parks should be very cyclical in their uses, because neighborhoods are cyclical in their demographics. You move to a neighborhood with teenagers necking in their cars and [soon] you’re in a neighborhood with people walking with baby strollers.”
This is a “flavor of the month” approach for wasting the taxpayers’ money. A logical interpretation and conclusion of his philosophy is to provide necking areas for teenagers, to be ripped out for baby stroller paths, to be ripped out and replaced with roller-blade hockey rinks for the baby-stroller children when they grow up--and eventually to be ripped out and replaced with senior citizen horseshoe courts.
The taxpayers demand a clear and consistent policy for the expenditure of public funds for Recreation and Parks--not a recycling approach that is the responsibility of the Bureau of Sanitation.
CHUCK PAIONI
Granada Hills
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