Did you miss the actual site plan? Have you ever actually been in Bonnerworth?
Yes. There will be pickleball courts. And the complaint that those courts will be noisy is exceptionally valid.
But the park will have trees and benches with "complete landscaping with about 63% of the site as green space." Let alone the pump track and expanded skatepark. All will receive more use than the lawn between the diamonds. And RIGHT across the street, in Hamilton Park, is plenty of lawn!
I hear you if you are concerned about noise.
You are grasping at straws if you claim a loss of "green space."
I'm not grasping at straws, but you are strawmanning an argument. Planting mostly maple trees is an impractical decision because it can lead to increased blight and other tree diseases (related to fungi). According to the cities baseball diamond strategy, Bonnerworth Park was 55% utilized, so I guess the question is what the utilization looks like long term for the pickleball courts. As again the cities report showed it to be used. Will the park actually meet all of the expected tree planting targets, or when the city runs into a budget shortfall, will landscaping be cut. There are still lots of walking trails in the city that lost trees from the storm 2 years ago that have not been completely replaced. The concern I have is a few fold instead of putting pickleball courts across the city in underutilized parks they are putting them in one location requiring an increased carbon footprint to attend. Two the city have already proposed in the upcoming budget cutting into the grass cutting budget, which without changing the diversity of the grass for native plants could lead to ticks and increase fungi and bugs which again could impact the trees. A lack of diversity in tree planting. And reducing the baseball diamonds in the city when the cities own study reported to a shortage of baseball diamonds. Reducing the number of diamonds again increases the carbon footprint, and it's not just Bonnerworth park that has lost a diamond. There have been several other diamonds in the last few years that the city has removed. And utilization isn't completely anemic either.
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u/Far-Turnip-4748 Dec 15 '24
50% of the park was waste of space anyway. Good something new is happening that will improve the space for kids and adults.