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Urgent Request from Save Audubon Park

Save Audubon Park

Resolution #02-192

The Audubon Nature Institute is now soliciting bids for the construction of its massive new golf clubhouse in Audubon Park. Despite the fact that this new building is to be built with public funds (state bonds), its design has never been reviewed by either the City Planning Commission or the public.

Before 5:00 p.m Wednesday, phone, fax or email your district councilperson and the two at-large councilmen, and ask them to please author and/or support Resolution 02-192, by which the City Council directs the City Planning Commission to review all future plans and projects in our public parks.

The City Planning Commission has shown that it WILL NOT act unless directed to do so by our elected officials. Repeated citizen requests for reviews have fallen on deaf ears at the CPC for the past six months. Save Audubon Park has received NO response from the CPC to our written request for the dates and findings of the supposed CPC reviews of the new golf course project that, during the City Council meeting on March 21, Ron Forman repeatedly claimed had taken place.

All calls and requests must be received before 5:00 p.m. Wednesday so the Council secretaries can record the calls before the City Council Meeting this Thursday, April 18, 2002.
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Suggested message:

Dear Councilmember,

I urge you to author and/or support Resolution 02-192 at the City Council Meeting on April 18, 2002, by which the City Council directs the City Planning Commission to review all future construction and renovation plans and projects in our public parks.

It is important for the City Council to ensure that developments in this city are subject to meaningful public input, to review by the Planning Commission for conformity with the City’s current Master Plan, and ultimately to City Council oversight, especially when those developments impact valuable urban green spaces such as Audubon Park and City Park.

[signed] [phone number or address] Scott Shea (A)
Phone: (504) 565-6345
Fax: (504) 565-7650
E-mail: Shea@nocitycouncil.com

Eddie Sapir (at-large)
Phone: (504) 565-6335
Fax: (504) 565-7655
E-mail: Sapir@nocitycouncil.com

Jim Singleton (at-large)
Phone: (504) 565-6325
Fax: (504) 565-6332
E-mail: Singleton@nocitycouncil.com

Oliver Thomas (B)
Phone: (504) 565-6320
Fax: (504) 565-7656
E-mail: Thomas@nocitycouncil.com

Troy Carter ©
Phone: (504) 565-6315
Fax: (504) 565-7652
E-mail: Carter@nocitycouncil.com

Marlin Gusman (D)
Phone: (504) 565-6310
Fax: (504) 565-8077
E-mail: Gusman@nocitycouncil.com

Cynthia Willard-Lewis (E)
Phone: (504) 565-6305
Fax: (504) 565-8180
E-mail: CWLewis@nocitycouncil.com

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