[Summit] Room to grown

[Greg Gerritt]

I like this idea.  greg

-----Original Message-----
>From: Gayle Gifford <gayle at ceffect.com>
>Sent: Apr 3, 2017 9:38 AM
>To: "summit at sna.providence.ri.us" <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
>Subject: Re: [Summit] Room to grown
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>I want to echo Paul Smith's suggestion that an assessment of parks, recreation and public space needs in the neighborhood would be a great project for the Summit Neighborhood Association in collaboration with the Parks Dept and the Partnership for Providence Parks. This would be a good subcommittee for concerned parents on this list to volunteer to create. 
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>If you want a history  of the parks, stop Grant Dulgarian the next time you see him. As I remember it, there was neighborhood agitation to get Miriam Hospital to give the parking lots on Summit back to the neighborhood in large part to stop once and for all the hospital's expansion and taking of properties in the neighborhood (when I first moved here 40 years ago, there were houses all along 8th street where the parking lot is now, and of course the old Summit Ave school where the Fain Building is now. Miriam was steadfast on not giving up the Summit Lots, but gave the Ninth Street lot to the city (or they paid, I don't remember)
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>There was always a concern for recreation for older kids, as the basketball and tennis courts at the end of Ninth St were not considered very accessible to the neighborhood. And a sense that a park was needed deeper in the neighborhood than Lippitt Park. 
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>The parks and recreation issue has a long history of being fraught with conflicting neighbor issues. Apparently, before my time, there used to be tennis courts at Lippitt Park, but the North Street neighbors didn't want them there so as they fell into disrepair they were removed instead of being restored. 
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>I do remember the tot lot being called that almost from the beginning as parents with young children staked it out.
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>Anyway, it is probably time to reassess the needs of the neighborhood. Neighborhood demographics can change. The School Department is likely to have projections as well. 
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>Best,
>Gayle Gifford
>9th St     
>
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