Sarasota Orchestra must find another location than Payne Park. Keep the park free from more buildings and development.
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Cliff Menezes
7 years ago
We need to protect our large contiguous green spaces for recreation and the animals that inhabit them.
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Lori
7 years ago
It's wrong to tear down one of the few things kids have to do that doesn't cost a lot. Instead of getting into trouble it's better to have this place for them to go.
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Melissa Connery
7 years ago
So sick of it all
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Thomas Wolf
7 years ago
The Sarasota Orchestra should be at the Bay Project or in the Van Wezel where they preform now
J
Joetta
7 years ago
Why can’t you leave some things alone???
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suzanne atwell
7 years ago
We cannot risk the footprint of Payne Park becoming lost in the shadow of such an immense project.
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Mike Lasche
7 years ago
The City is not a public asset to be pillaged by private interests. The Sarasota Orchestra is perfectly capable of buying and building their own home...........or being part of the Bayfront project, which is building a major performance hall. The City should not give away its assets to every politically powerful player that comes along and whispers sweet nothings in Commissioners' ears.
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Nate Blaweiss
7 years ago
SO does not care about the local community. They demonstrate that by flying musicians into town rather than hiring local musicians, and now by wanting to pave over the only grass remaining in the city limits. SO values their own elite status more than the community they are named for and so vocally "support."
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Gerlinde Kohl
7 years ago
Preserve and protect Payne Park!
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Mollie Cardamone
7 years ago
We have too much money invested in the 29 acres to give away green space that is vital to our quality if life. A minumum of $10million making each acre a min value of $345,000 and the Symphony wants 7 'free' acres??
MCC
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Glenn and Pat Gibson
7 years ago
Glenn plays annually in the Seniors Tennis Tournament for the last 10 years. We are from Colorado. Unless you are building a tennis complex for the tennis players, you are doing a disservice to the tennis community by eliminating the Payne Park tennis facility. There are slot more tennis players year around than people tootin their horns.
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Rebecca Bailey
7 years ago
Keep the park a park. No to the orchestra!
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Michael Abbott
7 years ago
I love this place
And always have
It's a gr8 place 2 escape tha hassles of every day life
J
Jane Reifert
7 years ago
City officials should not be permitted to break a vow to use the land only for park, recreation or similar use. There's only one Payne Park. The Orchestra can easily build elsewhere.
J
James Flowers
7 years ago
Save the park!
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Virginia Vanderboegh
7 years ago
Payne Park has been a source of family enjoyment since we came to Sarasota in 1969. Our children and ourselves have watched Spring Training baseball and we currently enjoy it with our grandchildren as well. - Tennis, walking, skateboarding, & roller blading. It’s the jewel of Sarasota!
Let us keep it, it’s important to everyone here - don’t take it away from us and other residents!!!
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Fendell Pillsbury
7 years ago
We can’t even get our 1% we voted for for public park and green space and now you want to take this away for the rarified few? As land is stripped as far as the eye can see in Sarasota? NO NO NO. I love that they created this beautiful park. Keep it! Make it even better! Do not tear it apart.
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Andrea Doggett
7 years ago
When developing a city, you must preserve green space. They protect from flooding, overheating, wildlife displacement and the overall wellbeing of the community and its children. It is far more important to have a place for community members to relax, enjoy, play and exercise than to attend a show every once in a blue moon, if at all.
Sarasota Orchestra must find another location than Payne Park. Keep the park free from more buildings and development.
We need to protect our large contiguous green spaces for recreation and the animals that inhabit them.
It's wrong to tear down one of the few things kids have to do that doesn't cost a lot. Instead of getting into trouble it's better to have this place for them to go.
So sick of it all
The Sarasota Orchestra should be at the Bay Project or in the Van Wezel where they preform now
Why can’t you leave some things alone???
We cannot risk the footprint of Payne Park becoming lost in the shadow of such an immense project.
The City is not a public asset to be pillaged by private interests. The Sarasota Orchestra is perfectly capable of buying and building their own home...........or being part of the Bayfront project, which is building a major performance hall. The City should not give away its assets to every politically powerful player that comes along and whispers sweet nothings in Commissioners' ears.
SO does not care about the local community. They demonstrate that by flying musicians into town rather than hiring local musicians, and now by wanting to pave over the only grass remaining in the city limits. SO values their own elite status more than the community they are named for and so vocally "support."
Preserve and protect Payne Park!
We have too much money invested in the 29 acres to give away green space that is vital to our quality if life. A minumum of $10million making each acre a min value of $345,000 and the Symphony wants 7 'free' acres?? MCC
Glenn plays annually in the Seniors Tennis Tournament for the last 10 years. We are from Colorado. Unless you are building a tennis complex for the tennis players, you are doing a disservice to the tennis community by eliminating the Payne Park tennis facility. There are slot more tennis players year around than people tootin their horns.
Keep the park a park. No to the orchestra!
I love this place And always have It's a gr8 place 2 escape tha hassles of every day life
City officials should not be permitted to break a vow to use the land only for park, recreation or similar use. There's only one Payne Park. The Orchestra can easily build elsewhere.
Save the park!
Payne Park has been a source of family enjoyment since we came to Sarasota in 1969. Our children and ourselves have watched Spring Training baseball and we currently enjoy it with our grandchildren as well. - Tennis, walking, skateboarding, & roller blading. It’s the jewel of Sarasota! Let us keep it, it’s important to everyone here - don’t take it away from us and other residents!!!
We can’t even get our 1% we voted for for public park and green space and now you want to take this away for the rarified few? As land is stripped as far as the eye can see in Sarasota? NO NO NO. I love that they created this beautiful park. Keep it! Make it even better! Do not tear it apart.
When developing a city, you must preserve green space. They protect from flooding, overheating, wildlife displacement and the overall wellbeing of the community and its children. It is far more important to have a place for community members to relax, enjoy, play and exercise than to attend a show every once in a blue moon, if at all.
This should not be allowed.