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Letter to City Council Jerry Thomas, 1339 Second Avenue, Chula Vista 91911
#* Phone 619 3024410 jerrvthomas8@cox.net July 27, 2015
ORANGE PARK-REGULATION SOCCER FIELD-SAFE CHILDERNS PLAYGROUND-DOG PARK
Southwest Chula Vista needs a regulation soccer field, promised secure off-leash Dog
Park and a safe, healthy children's playground.
The Ciry Manager of Chula Vista has announced that the promised Orenge Park next
to the Southwest Chula Vista International Orange Library is ciose to completion. The people
of Southwest Chula Vista on 1an. 20, 2030 agreed to a design plan for a park with personality
and a sense of place, after a decade of planning. The original park was safe, secure and had a
regulation soccer fieid, dog park in the center, basketball court with a proper dreinage
system.The park was separated from the librery so that the children had a healthy
environmentally balanced playground that the vagrents and addicts can't take over like the
two other parks in the Southwest Chula Vista. At the Feb.11, 2014 meeting the changed park
design that was kept from the southwest community park advocates was deceptively
presented.
This is what you are going to get now.The small dog park that was in the center of the
park to the south was moved to the hillside in front of the main entrance.This replaced the
hillside which had an amphitheater with a stage on the bottom.The specimen trees on the
hillside had exceptional beauty. It was destroyed so that the design—build contrector could
maximize his profit by taking the topsoil and using it to the south.
The huge dog park is not greded properly and will result in it becoming a cesspool
because of faulty drainage. The dog park is surrounded by a much too low, very ugly, chain
link fence and is insecure for unleash dogs. It makes renowned Mexican Architect Ricardo
Legorretta masterpiece librery look like a prison yard and his gifted landscape vision has been
destroyed. The design- build huckster decided to make the so-called soccer field LOPSIDED
and saved a lot of money by not bringing in outside topsoil to make the promised regulation
soccer field. Is this the result of a self-serving developer, contractor with special interests,
who are allow to surreptitiously make as much money as they can and leave?
The Orenge Street Librery was designed as cultural destination and educational
resource for the community. Architect Ricardo Legorretta designed the building with interior
courtyards, fountains, reflecting pools, pyramid,vaulted ceilings and a combination of
brilliant colors.The fountains, reflecting pools and interior courtyards with their beautiful
imported lavender Mexican tiles have been destroyed by someone who converted them into
pianters.
Southwest Chula Vista needs a regulation soccer field, promised secure off-leash Dog
Park and a safe, healthy children's playground.