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> From: "Cynthia Price" <
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> To: "enviro-mich" <
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:42 PM
> Subject: E-M:/ Fwd: Detroit considers sale of City's small parks
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>> Enviro-Mich message from "Cynthia Price" <
skyprice@gmail.com>
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>> Forgive me if this has already been posted -- I searched for it and
>> can't find it if it has. I got it from one of the urban ag list-serves
>> I'm on.
>>
>> Wondering what the reaction has been.
>>
>> I'm not sure the link will be live but can be cut and pasted -- it
>> gets you right to the article.
>>
>> Cynthia Price
>> Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council
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>> From: Pohl-Kosbau, Leslie <
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>> Date: Jan 2, 2008 2:55 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/us/29parks.html>>
>> Detroit Considers Sale of City's Small Parks
>>
>> Save for a rusty, seatless swing set, the Brinket-Hibbard Playlot
>> resembles
>> many vacant lots pockmarking Detroit's hardscrabble east side.
>> Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
>> snip
>> The Recreation Department's master plan calls the proposal "park
>> repositioning," which officials promote as a clear-eyed way to look at
>> necessary downsizing, a way to align park space with the significant
>> demographic shifts over the last half-century in Detroit, which has lost
>> about a million people since 1950.
>> But critics say it could further hurt downtrodden areas where parks are
>> equally appreciated, and that green space is too precious to be bartered
>> for
>> money.
>> "They call some of these parks 'surplus,'" said City Councilwoman JoAnn
>> Watson, an opponent of the plan, "but I don't know what the heck that
>> means
>> because there is no such thing as a surplus of something that is
>> necessary
>> for the good and welfare of the community. The very concept of selling
>> off
>> public parkland in somebody's hope to address a one-time money crunch is
>> not
>> something you do as a big city. We have to protect these parks for future
>> generations."
>> snip
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