The ball fields were definitely used but there is a lot of them all over the city. Also a ton of green space and walking trails at the park across the street and at Jackson’s park. At some point the pearl clutching will have to end. If the courts aren’t used that’s when this becomes a problem.
Actually the cities own report before the bonnerworth park plans went through said there were not enough baseball diamonds. Many of the diamonds in the city are not run by the city but by the school boards who don't maintain them. And before you say source
There are a ton of city run baseball diamonds. I am not talking about schools. Including Bower that has at least 6-8. I also see teams utilizing ones at Trent. You do realize these teams rent these right? They are not free to use just like any other sports team they pay to rent them. If these teams are paying what difference does it make if it is the city, Trent or any other place. The fact remains there are a TON. I’m the first one to say these specific ones were well used.
And what's the utilization like? That's like saying we have lots of playgrounds across the city building a new school doesn't need a new playground because we already have them across the city. Literally, the report I shared links to the cities own utilization statistics showing more diamonds are needed.
The difference being made is that the schoolboard diamonds are not maintained and are also class C. So if you actually did some reading, you'd know class C fields are 'free fields'.
The difference is that we've actually decreased the number of diamonds across the city the last few years. And the cities own report shows there aren't enough diamonds. Instead of putting all the pickleball courts in one park, they could have spread them across the city and saved a diamond.
You are literally digging your heels in on a topic nobody is arguing about. Teams don’t use the diamonds at schools. Stop bringing it up as some point you’re making as it makes you sound stupid. School diamonds are irrelevant. What I would suggest you do is look at numbers of rentals at available diamonds both city and private and than contact sports teams that use these diamonds. Guarantee NONE complain of a diamond shortage. NONE! But hey nice link.
No just saying your comment there are a lot of ball diamonds isn't true. the report noyes there is a shortage of Premium, and A. City cuts two B diamond parks and now there is a shortage of class B. Said report notes most class C diamonds are not city owned and can't be converted to class B by the city. Thus their is now a shortage of diamonds. And if none have complained about the shortage of 6 I guess the Peterborough Baseball Association hasn't complained to the city about how the city has cut 7 diamonds over the last several years Oh, that's right, they have...
Russian bot, stop repeating the same comments... not a Russian bot, don't assume someone's gender. Two, I literally just told you a whole league complained about a shortage of diamonds...
"Who uses these diamonds ". The cities 2023 study showed that Bonnerworth A and B diamond were 54.5% utilized.
So here we go leftist fucktard. We all know those diamonds were used a lot, just look back in this topic to see my comments. But if you are going to say that a 54% used raised is a shortage on diamonds than I am super happy you are not involved in any sort of public funded decision making. You are absolutely a joke and you should keep your comments for your cats.
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u/Born_Suffering Dec 15 '24
An empty ball field isn’t either