How should San Francisco renovate Dolores Park?

By Crosscurrents Pro... on March 11, 2010 - 1:40pm

Dolores Park is in serious need of repairs. The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department hasn't decided whether it will close down the park entirely for 16 months, or complete the construction in phases, which would take even longer, but would also prevent the park from closing all at once. Which alternative do you prefer? Or, do you have a better idea altogether?

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Zoe Corneli's picture
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By Zoe Corneli on March 11, 2010 - 5:12pm.

Christina Marchette of Mountain View says:

"Personally I don’t agree that piecemeal is best, because it would just drag it out. And if there was more pressure to get it done quickly and efficiently, by having it shut down entirely for 16 months, they might even be able to beat that, and it might get done faster. And there would be a lot of residential encouragement to complete it. And then it would also make the park kind of special again. I think there’s a possibility that people who live around here, and have for a long time, probably take it for granted to some extent. So it would reawaken its specialness to the community."

Chris Hoff's picture
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By Chris Hoff on March 12, 2010 - 2:29pm.

I think it's kind of odd how there are so many city projects going on right now in San Francisco. It seems that beautifying or otherwise repairing a park that is not really in need of it is somewhat extravagant, almost unnecessary. I assume SF is doing all this because of the federal stimulus money it has received, and hence the oddness I alluded to above: the Fed creates a wad of cash out of nothing, sprinkles it around and thereby motivates thousands of people to work. San Francisco gets a whole bunch of new roads, better parks, and renovated buildings because of what seems to me wholly imaginary funds.