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<br />, <br /> <br />Mary Capra <br />Councilwoman <br />City of Centerville <br /> <br />Mary, <br /> <br />First I'd like to comment on what I would consider the tragedy of the decision to <br />accept money instead of land for the Buckbee property. The City only has one true "City <br />Park", that being Lamotte Park with ball fields, rinks, soccer fields, and ample parking. <br />The rest of the parks in the city are neighborhood parks, located within close walking <br />distance the immediate neighborhood, and utilized by small children. <br />You'll recall that I've volunteered to help install playground equipment, plant <br />trees, and do landscaping at these parks and at Centerville Elementary. I've also enlisted <br />the help of many neighbors to lend a hand at these parks in other neighborhoods. We all <br />fully realized that our children would rarely benefit from it, but many other kids would. <br />Our neighborhood is a collection of small, mostly split-level homes. Perfect <br />starter homes you might say. As families get bigger and older many of our residents have <br />moved up and out, and the people moving in is usually a family with small children. To <br />suggest that 6 tenths of a mile is a reasonable distance for a mother with small children to <br />walk to another neighborhood park is misguided. <br />To basically pillage money created from our neighborhood to fund improvements <br />and maintenance in other neighborhoods is unconscionable. The Buckbee property is <br />arguably the most beautiful piece of land left in the city. The Park ad Recreation <br />Committee's recommendation to accept money for existing parks, in many of their <br />neighborhoods, instead of land for a park in our neighborhood is a travesty. <br /> <br />I'm sure you and the Council are well aware of the history of Peltier Lake Drive. <br />The City made the mistake of allowing the houses, roads, stOlID sewers, etc. to be built on <br />an elevation to low, causing a plethora of water problems. The City then compounded <br />the problem by rebuilding the road after a short period of time at approximately the same <br />elevation. The effect of this decision by the city basically pitted neighbor against <br />neighbor in litigation. <br /> <br />It is now part of the City's plan to extend city water down Centerville Road to <br />create a "water loop", and once again your decision will have a detrimental effect on the <br />neighborhood. The first time this loop was proposed was during the Lakeland Hills <br />Addition. At that time a vast majority of the residents stated their desire not to do this. <br /> <br />The City repeatedly suggests that there is a benefit to city water, but I have yet to <br />find any. With only minimum research on the Internet, you can find a whole lot of <br />reasons to be passionately against it. I currently have water that is GOOD for me. Let <br />me list some of health effects of chlorinated water. <br /> <br />l <br />