PETITION TO PRESERVE PAYNE PARK

I like walking through the park. I worry about parking, old trees being taken down, and rich people pushing out other people they see as "undesirable" who frequent the park. Or think of it this way. If you build a building, the park gets smaller. Parks always get smaller, never larger. How far will I have to travel one day to see a park once they have all been taken in the name of building larger shrines to rich people?

Preserve the park!!!

Do not compromise this beautiful park with unnecessary development and parking lots!

Don’t pave paradise to put up a parking lot! Preserve nature and community green space. You don’t need a ticket to enjoy the beauty of Payne Park !

We don’t have to cover ever square inch of any part of downtown Sarasota or Sarasota County. This procedure leads to less area for natural drainage leading to more effluent going into the bay and ultimately the Gulf.

Please listen to the citizens who respect open spaces and also respect the gift given to the city by the Paynes and their desire to maintain open spaces.

There are few enough green spaces left in Sarasota as development overtakes even a tiny bit of vacant land. This park is a jewel of green in downtown Sarasota that needs to be protected ardently. Every square inch of this park is necessary to the quality of life in this county.

Because the last time I fought to protect our town I was told that every green space in Sarasota will be built on eventually and there’s nothing we can do about it. Watch us.

Preserve the green space in this public park. Thank you!

So tired of Big Bigger and Bigger buildings! When will SRQ recognize their biggest asset is their “old Florida” vibe! Less is more!

I wholeheartedly agree, Preserve Payne Park. We cannot sacrifice the natural environments that Sarasota has wisely kept natural and allow it all to be overrun and destroyed to make room for more parking and buildings. Use building space already created and not in use before taking away more natural resources. Think more of Life as a whole rather than the financial "benefits" that developers see. We need Payne Park. Thank you!

Keep Payne park! Somethings shouldn't be an option.

My gut is telling me to develop this land is totally wrong. More concrete parking spaces more concrete buildings… Don’t do it!

Please start a dialog with Sarasota High School and the community about locating the Orchestra facility on a portion of this 82.4 acre High School campus. Providing a permanant site for the Sarasota Orchestra on their campus could be very benificial to the students, the vision, and the offerings of the high school. Be sure to include the students and teachers in this dialog at all levels.

Find another space for a theater. Keep the park a natural green space our growing urban community can utilize without having to drive east of 75. Further and further east if they keep paving and building at the rate they are.

Our citizens need green space!!!

Please keep some of old Sarasota before it disappears!! Stop erasing our history!

This park means so much to me,I walk my dog,and it brings me to a spiritual place being with nature.

We need to preserve this land.

Please preserve Payne Park. The taking of 7 acres of the park property, violates the restrictive covenants in the deed and is a violation of the public trust doctrine.