From Mayor Finch:
City Works with Community to Create Long-Term Vision for Parks
Sasaki Associates, the firm selected to create the first parks master plan for the City in 100 years, rolled out its vision for Bridgeport’s parks at a public forum held at Waltersville School on Wednesday night.
The Parks Master Plan will focus on:
• Increasing connectivity between parks
• Enhancing focus on the ecological diversity within the parks
• Economic viability
• Accessibility to all residentsSasaki unveiled a number of recommendations and suggestions following months of assessment, outreach, surveys and meeting with the public.
These recommendations included the creation of additional neighborhood park amenities such as dog runs, playgrounds and recreational court sports and partnerships with local businesses, non-profit organizations, schools and city residents to help improve the park system. These recommendations will be finalized in the coming weeks into a park master plan document that will guide Bridgeport’s parks for future generations. More info:
www.bridgeportct.gov/ParksRecreation/Pages/ParksMasterPlanSurvey.aspx
This master plan is going to become a masterpiece of money manipulation with all profits going to the 999 Broad Street Club.
One to watch. Calling John Lee.
And that would mean seeing what the Master Plan says about expenses of getting from where we are to where “the Plan” tells us we want to be, by what date, with progress costing what each year, and funded from what budget(s) over time. Where is this info? If not here today, where will it show up for approval (maybe even discussion, a novel concept, before approval) in the future? Who knows? Who cares?
I have some notion that much of what the City gets into ends up exceeding budget, and yet is paid? If that is true, there need to be more City watchdogs, bloodhounds, and just plain “fellow man’s best friends” willing to work on this subject in all its varieties and iterations. It seems to me the more I learn, the more I realize how unhealthy is the City fiscal environment, and how unique it is among CT towns and cities. Perhaps we need to ask some Political Science and Government professors from some of Connecticut’s great colleges and universities to shine a comparative light on what goes on here and elsewhere. We could see the data but fast forward to the Executive Summaries that are probably going to tell us things we do not want to hear and change is required to restore order, control and fight the present conflicts of interest, low comprehension levels in the City Council of that which they are voting upon (in the big picture) and opportunities for “corrupt behaviors.” More, another day. Time will tell.
Manipulation was what was done to John Gomes resulting in him having to change the locks on his office doors. I commend him for always taking the HIGH ROAD.
SS-DD // Oct 14, 2011 at 7:49 pm
To your posting
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Seems more the low road than high road, but then that’s probably because I think anonymous stuff posted is low road.
First get rid of the electrician formerly known as Charles Carroll …
Sasaki Ass. did a harbor waterfront plan in the late ’90s. It will be the SOS with the rest of the studies and plans for Bridgeport that never get implemented. The best example of one of Bill’s Ballyhoos of Parks is the new park at the Annex. They took down the fake wrought-iron fence on the corner of State and Broad and slapped up another green sign proclaiming this a park.
If I used the term Master Plan they would try to kick me off the council for my last two meetings.