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Reggie Greenwood <
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Emerson park
Dear Parks and rec advisors
V current plan of splitting up the grassy area for a dog park when we have Laguna Lake just four minutes away
down the street doesn’t seem feasible.
As a former director of a youth sports organization, and the former vice president of the YSA sports
Association in San Luis Obispo Emerson Park provides vital open grass. Space that children softball under 12
and under 10 can exercise team sports and not have to compete with the older age brackets particularly youth
14 and older sports taking up the larger patches of grass that are available in the city.
The final amount of team usage space in San Luis Obispo makes Emerson Park and ideal location for these
age groups. I’ve described.
An optimal area for a dog park would be up at Mitchell Park where there is trees and open area where you
could have a dog park not interfere with any other sports activities. The insistence of a dog park at Emerson
Park is coming from people in the neighborhood who just don’t want to have to share a space with the youth
groups. As a dog owner, I think there’s plenty of their area for us to both share and let the dogs exercise freely
at other time periods.
If you had to put a dog park at that park, why not move the basketball court up towards the fitness area and
then do a narrow long space for dogs to be able to utilize the area without interfering with the youth sports for
children under 12
Thank you for your time and attention. I hope as someone who lives in the neighborhood you take my
evaluation to heart and give the kids what they need.
Sincerely
Reggie Greenwood
533 Pismo St.
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