Letters to the EditorPalm Beach Post
April 13, 2016
Keep John Prince a park at all costs
John Prince Park in Lake Worth has been an oasis of green tranquility and beauty for many years and a place for families to get back to a sense of nature’s survival amid Palm Beach County’s continual sellout to commercial interests. One by one, the forests, orange groves and nurseries have fallen to the bulldozers as the county commissioners, seeing only more tax money, allowed the absolute destruction of our Florida beauty to be paved over, trees cut, and expansion up to and then into what was once the Everglades.
From a quiet county where life was simple and truly livable, the commission has wrought havoc with its inability to say “no” to more and more buildup, changing building codes and allowing a stampede of out-of-state developers to destroy what nature has spent thousands of years evolving.
Now the greatest blunder of all: the consideration of destroying John Prince Park and turning it into a spring training baseball complex. Have the county and Lake Worth city commissioners gone mad? This last bastion of peace and serenity to be ’dozed away and replaced with a baseball field, with its vastly increased traffic along the already busy Congress Avenue, all for some tax dollars to pay for more people to flock to our way-too-crowded streets and neighborhoods.
Wake up, commissioners, before you commit the ultimate betrayal of the people who elected you to keep our county and towns livable, with nature not being sold off for you to rake in more (hoped-for) tax money to justify your jobs. And people of Palm Beach County, make your voices heard and refuse to accept that we have no power in determining the future of lives, as made by a few politicians.
Call them, write them, and if need be, file lawsuits against this.
WAYNE GROVER
LANTANA
10 comments:
Wonderful, heartfelt letter. I totally agree with you.
I just sent it via e-mail to the entire PB county Commission as well as Lake Worth's--just in case they missed it! :)
It is a perfect letter in every respect and I couldn't have said it any better if I had tried.
Terrific letter and so well stated. Just love it that you sent it on to those involved in destroying JPP. Encouraging that the Post is actually printing these!! Perhaps journalism is returning.
It may be an issue but by that time no one will care. We brought everything up this past election and those who were well-heeled with special interszt money won in a landslide. Until you get people to be pro-active out here, come to commission meetings and take a stand, no other voice is heard but the "bad guys."
Need better candidates, sorry but the challengers just were not very strong. Many of them had good positions, but some didn't show up and others didn't articulate, etc. Yes there was big money backing the incumbents, but if there were better challengers and not so many (splitting the votes), things may have been different.
Hope the Sierra Club and all environmental groups will take action and file suit.
we need the right candidates..our last slate was lacking..tho they tried...I do not think money was the only issue...your past counts...its all over the internet
FWIW
spent some time with a friend of mine who works for ATT. He said that there have been ATT engineers at park talking about how they were going to lay the underground lines to avoid having any lines visible when the park is converted. I told him it going to be an uphill battle....we had a beer then he said....we'll see.
Drinking on the job I see.
I really doubt your story.
If I had known that the resolution to support the stadium in JPP was on the agenda I and about 50 other people would have been there to object to it. But as usual the trio kept it a secret from us as well as Commissioner's McVoy and Maier. There usual underhanded way of doing things. I sure hope their supporters see what lying scumbags they are. Of course the pay to play ones never will as they are the only ones that benefit from the trio. Screw the Peons is their motto.
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