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Flores, Dora <br />From:(null) (null) <le_canuck@yahoo.com> <br />Sent:Tuesday, April <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:Agenda Item 19: Washington Square Neighborhood Park <br /> Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br /> <br /> <br />Dear Mayor and Councilmembers, <br /> <br />I’d like you to imagine two things: <br /> <br />First, a young girl, curly hair bouncing, a broad smile across her face as she runs to keep up with her leashed puppy <br />racing across a large, green lawn and under the shade of trees. <br /> <br />Second, a vast swath of foxtails and associated weeds behind delapidated chain-link fencing, bending as the wind whips <br />through the unused, open space, trash swirling in the breeze. <br /> <br />The second description is the current reality for a portion of otherwise-beautiful Washington Square, a neighborhood <br />that I’m sure you know residents take great pride in. The first is the park we—and fhe city—could have with a new <br />walkable park in our neigborhood. <br /> <br />The girl in the first image is my daughter. Although we in Washington Square support the development of a park at 10th <br />and Flower Streets, our neighborhood deserves a park of its own that our children can visit without having to cross five <br />lanes of speeding, heavy traffic. <br /> <br />Please help fulfil a pledge city leaders made when they asked Santa Ana citizens to approve Measure X: expand our <br />neighborhood’s access to parks. <br /> <br />Please approve funding for a feasibility study for a walkable park in Washington Square. <br /> <br />Thank you, <br /> <br />Michael Mello <br />Olive Street, 17-year Washington Square resident. <br />4 <br /> <br />