Community Recreation Services Plan Up for Discussion at City Hall
Prince George, B.C.- When it comes to recreational facilities in Prince George, the City is looking to adopt a plan that is basically “use it or lose it.”
This evening, Council will be asked to approve a Community Recreation Services Plan which presents several recommendations, including the decommissioning of “unmaintained and unused tennis and basketball courts on City land”. The plan also calls for working with the ball diamond clubs to “explore options for increased shared use, higher utilization , efficiencies and benefits for clubs and the city “while also moving to decommission or repurpose underutilized ball diamonds.”
There is also a recommendation about playgrounds, as under this plan, “Administration will move to a target range of 800m for assessing neighbourhood supply and will undertake a neigbourhood assessment based on this new target range.”
The plan also calls for continued consultation and assessment of costs for an artificial turf field, such a field was supposed to be part of the Duchess Park redevelopment.
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First let most community facilities degrade to cracked courts full of weeds, and unkempt fields, rendering them unplayable at best, and hazards at worst. Then accuse the community of not utilizing them and take them away. More money for the PAC this way. The wine and cheese crowd have no time for healthy active lifestyle. It fosters competition, and that is bad! Besides they are using all that play space as a toilet for fido right now.
Council just doesn’t get it. Isn’t it about cutting spending rather then cutting services.
Cheers
Jimmy sounds like the plan for the Four Seasons pool.
“The plan also calls for continued consultation and assessment of costs for an artificial turf field, such a field was supposed to be part of the Duchess Park redevelopment.”
The Women’s World Cup soccer will be held soon in Canada and there is a demand by the Canadian team that it be played on natural grass only.
Apparently there are some concerns that artificial turf is an unhealthy surface to play on and may lead to some health problems.
The City better contact the Team’s Head Office to find out what those health concerns are and if they have any merit, before it spends a whole pile of our money and ripping the plastic out soon thereafter.
No..maybe you better do a bit of research before you spout nonsense. I wonder what is the field of choice under the COVERED soccer field at UNBC. Next.
The elephant in the room is Police, Firemen, High paid Managers and Administration, and of course high paid union jobs.
The focus is on Elk Centre, Coliseum, Four Seasons, because they are reaching their shelf life. However no discussion on the shelf life of the library, which is now 38 years old, and if subject to the same criteria as Four Seasons, and Elk Centre it should be shut down, rather that upgraded. We also have the Tourist Bureau, and IPG building on first avenue that was built in 1971 and is now 43 years old. If was 38 years old when the City and IPG bought it.
Anyone notice that they are very selective when finding buildings that have reached their shelf life????
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