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� ; U Questions and Answers Here are some answers to questions we anticipate you may have about the petitions and our proposed park plan. Why are we presenting petitions to the Council rather than the Park Board? The City Clerk told us that this is the petition process. In any case, we spoke at the last Park Board meeting to give them copies of the petitions, and tell them that we'd obtained over 400 signatures on each one and that we'd be presenting the petitions to the City Council. (Incidentally, the Park Board said that to change the master plan, we must do petitions.) What could be done to address the concerns of the people bordering the park who want to keep the plan as-is? A lot has already been done. The Park and Rec. Dept. has already addressed privacy concerns in a variety of ways. For example, they have created various burms in and around the park, they've moved trees from within the park over to property lines, and they've put in a budget request for additional treestshrubs around the park. In addition, residents bordering the park convinced the Park Board to move the playground to a 11-N location that's almost out of site of their homes-against the desires of other residents. Also, residents bordering the park wanted neutral colored equipment, which is what was ordered. As for placement of other proposed park elements, the only place that residents bordering the park seem to agree on is having everything moved to the unaquired land, which is unacceptable to the 400+ people signing the petitions. What are our primary reasons for wanting to change the park's master plan to the proposed plan? Residents have many reasons. Many residents support the petitions due to the following reasons: • Before I moved here, realtors showed us the space and plan for a park in the neighborhood. I've lived here for almost 5 years and there's hardly anything in the park. • There is a lot of unused space in the currently available park land, so we'd rather have additional recreational opportunities added to this space rather than waiting years for the smaller, unacquired land. Besides, the currently available land is a lot closer to all of our homes, it's much easier to access, and there are multiple access points to it.