My point is this: Council just approved a new Parks and Recreation Vision Plan. We have good Memorial and Airport Park Expansion plans. But they are just plans. They don’t mean a thing until shovels hit the dirt. We plan, plan, plan, then wait, wait, wait. We keep pushing park projects further and farther down the road as costs keep rising. Why do parks here take twice as long, and twice the effort, and cost twice as much? Because all of us: Council members, the District, SMC, residents, and others, don’t work well enough together.

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