DO NOT ALLOW OUR LOCAL POLITICIANS TO COMMERCIALIZE VETERAN'S PARK AND DENGEGRATE THE MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN HEROS
Meeting Scheduled for May 16, 2007 at 6 PM
Norwalk Town Hall
There is a proposal in front of the Common Council to take a portion of Veteran's Park in East Norwalk, CT and lease it to a private business for the purpose of building a miniature golf course and a set of batting cages.
It was the intention of some of the Counsel Members to do this quietly without the input of the residents who are most effected by it. When The Norwalk Hour found out about it they came out Four-Square against the proposal.
If you believe we should not lose precious public land to private businesses
If you believe there is already enough traffic on Seaview Avenue
If you believe the Veteran's Park is to honor the Veterans of our town and belongs to the residents of Norwalk
Please Skip Dinner on May 16th and oppose this project!
Meeting will be held at City Hall in the Concert Hall
THANK YOU NORWALK FOR SHOWING UP!!!
THE JANUARY 9th MEETING WAS WELL ATTENDED
AND OUR POINT WAS MADE
CLICK HERE READ THE NORWALK HOUR COVERAGE
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There is a capital request from Parks and Recreation to build an amphitheatre in Veterans' Park! |
The Community around Vets’ Park spoke at the hearing
9 January 2008. The demands were very clear:
There must be an end to unlimited ear-splitting concert-festivals, with provisions made for the impact of traffic and congestion on the adjoining commercial and residential communities. Whatever plan is developed for the Park must respect the right of the community to residential tranquility and easy access to homes and businesses.
While a Master Plan is a definite first step in the development of the Park, money is severely limited. Before we appropriate significant funds to an outside agency to develop a plan, the City must:
- Sample the opinions of the existing and proposed commercial/residential developments that are the economic/cultural support of the city. Perhaps with their input, private sources of funding might become available to develop the Park according to the adjoining community’s commercial and cultural interests.
- Fully survey the Park to determine its physical boundaries.
- Sample the soil for the possible contamination of the underlying dump site.
- Investigate all of the environmental consequences of disturbing this ecologically sensitive waterfront site that readily floods.
- Solicit the input of the
Maritime Center
- Develop alternate sources of Park funding, such as a parking sticker program for all of
Norwalk
- Develop interim uses of the Park, such as a Farmers Market and similar low impact uses to augment rather than compete with the adjoining community’s economic development.
