Neighbors, Brooklyn residents are finding out that they have no voice when their parks are being "improved!" (UCD tried to get me to be their stooge for this same "performance stage" in Clark Park.)
UCD/FOCP has spent years burying their redesign visions for Clark Park. The strategy of redesigning the park in smaller bites, after years of securing the secrecy of the FOCP "planning committee," serves to divide the previous, nearly unanimous, dissent of residents. This stage is an important part of the "destination vision" designed to replace your community. Under the new order, you will not find out about the stage until Park B is closed. Nothing about the district "vision" was created from within this community! Nor is any part of it created by the geniuses at UCD. When are our neighbors going to realize that these upscale visions are fad marketing schemes that have nothing to do with how public spaces serve individual communities and cities? These corporate marketing visions just place the name of different parks on the same damn marketing scheme! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/nyregion/11seaside.html?hpw "The dispute playing out in this corner of Brooklyn reflects a clash of visions between the residents of an immigrant enclave whose biggest community event in the park is the annual Russian Heritage Festival and city officials longing for a Coney Island entertainment district that will restore the wider area to glory. It is also a clash between development and conservation in a city where open space is ever more precious... " Does this sound familiar? "The plan calls for rebuilding, moving and expanding the park’s playground and bathrooms and creating gardens and pathways and a storm-water system to prevent flooding. Yet those elements are eclipsed by the proposed 65,000-square-foot amphitheater, which would replace the 8,000-square-foot band shell now used for free concerts in July and August." ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
