Honor our community. Keep this green space in our city!
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Gini C Hyman
7 years ago
Leave Payne Park alone! Do not relocate or build a venue hall specifically for Sarasota Orchestra!
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Tyler Mollet
7 years ago
I want to save the park.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
No one should touch this land is open to the public. It's one of the greatest things we have down here in Sarasota that the RICH have. I enjoy the Orchestra, but I would never Beable to go due to it costing allot of money. Please find somewhere else to build. Let us have this one thing left in Sarasota that costs no money to opens time with our children
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Dan McNichol
7 years ago
Go Green
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Debra Glazebrook
7 years ago
Please find another place to build. Seems this area is just loosing so much green space to commercial businesses. Let them build elsewhere. Maybe revamp something already built. Remodel or totally rebuild on an already commercial location but NOT a park setting. These are fewer & fewer to find. The madness needs to stop. Please help spread this word! Thank you!
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Patsy lee shelton
7 years ago
Preserve Payne Park
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Stop paving Sarasota county.
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Tyler more
7 years ago
Don’t close the park
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David Coley
7 years ago
Dear Commissioners:
Please reconsider what is an utterly incompatible land use change. The drescruction of sthe etablished duck pond- wetland alone should be enough for you to deny the orchestras requested move to this location. The pond itself has been there close to 30 years. As such, many of the wintering birds return to it every year. Further, what about the impact to the running track and playground? Both are heavily used and the last thing we need is an access road immediately to the west.
Therefore, any project that requires such extensive relocation of existing facilities at he park should be enough for you to reject any project here.
Thank you,
David Coley
2544 Novus St
Alta Vista
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Michael
7 years ago
This is stupid
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Patricia
7 years ago
I cannot imagine why any so-called "civic minded" institution (as described by Joe McKenna, the CEO of the Sarasota Orchestra) would want to make a land grab for public park lands.
Green space is not space looking for a building. Green space is supposed to be green so that people and wildlife can live and play.
The city commissioners cannot give away valuable park land to a single purpose entity. By no measure, is the Orchestra's attendees more valuable than the hundreds of thousands of people who visit and use Payne Park.
The Orchestra is arguing that they should get land in Payne Park as they are giving up a much smaller area of land on the Bayfront which they are abandoning because of climate change and concerns about sea-waters rising and drowning their building.
To that I say, bulls*#t. First, the logic is ridiculous. The Orchestra is more worried about saving their building from flooding than saving their donors and patrons from flooding? Based on their logic, we should all abandon Sarasota and flee to higher grounds. How civic-minded is that position?
Second, even if there was a scintilla of logic on doing a trade. Smaller land for a trade for bigger land? Joe McKenna, the CEO, is a snake oil salesman. Don't let this man put one foot into Payne Park, ever!
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Max brantley
7 years ago
I go to pyane park all the time
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James Mackey
7 years ago
Such a beautiful place.
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Robert Koske
7 years ago
No to building on Payne Park !!!!
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Elizabeth Intagliata
7 years ago
I urge the City of Sarasota to keep Payne Park a park as it was given to the City by the Payne family.
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Denise johnston
7 years ago
Save the park!
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Patricia Blackstock
7 years ago
Enough of the green space grabs already! Sarasota is losing it's charm for greed
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THAO ROSS
7 years ago
No on the orchestra! Keep it to the intent of the Payne donation. Park for outdoor use only!
Honor our community. Keep this green space in our city!
Leave Payne Park alone! Do not relocate or build a venue hall specifically for Sarasota Orchestra!
I want to save the park.
No one should touch this land is open to the public. It's one of the greatest things we have down here in Sarasota that the RICH have. I enjoy the Orchestra, but I would never Beable to go due to it costing allot of money. Please find somewhere else to build. Let us have this one thing left in Sarasota that costs no money to opens time with our children
Go Green
Please find another place to build. Seems this area is just loosing so much green space to commercial businesses. Let them build elsewhere. Maybe revamp something already built. Remodel or totally rebuild on an already commercial location but NOT a park setting. These are fewer & fewer to find. The madness needs to stop. Please help spread this word! Thank you!
Preserve Payne Park
Stop paving Sarasota county.
Don’t close the park
Dear Commissioners: Please reconsider what is an utterly incompatible land use change. The drescruction of sthe etablished duck pond- wetland alone should be enough for you to deny the orchestras requested move to this location. The pond itself has been there close to 30 years. As such, many of the wintering birds return to it every year. Further, what about the impact to the running track and playground? Both are heavily used and the last thing we need is an access road immediately to the west. Therefore, any project that requires such extensive relocation of existing facilities at he park should be enough for you to reject any project here. Thank you, David Coley 2544 Novus St Alta Vista
This is stupid
I cannot imagine why any so-called "civic minded" institution (as described by Joe McKenna, the CEO of the Sarasota Orchestra) would want to make a land grab for public park lands. Green space is not space looking for a building. Green space is supposed to be green so that people and wildlife can live and play. The city commissioners cannot give away valuable park land to a single purpose entity. By no measure, is the Orchestra's attendees more valuable than the hundreds of thousands of people who visit and use Payne Park. The Orchestra is arguing that they should get land in Payne Park as they are giving up a much smaller area of land on the Bayfront which they are abandoning because of climate change and concerns about sea-waters rising and drowning their building. To that I say, bulls*#t. First, the logic is ridiculous. The Orchestra is more worried about saving their building from flooding than saving their donors and patrons from flooding? Based on their logic, we should all abandon Sarasota and flee to higher grounds. How civic-minded is that position? Second, even if there was a scintilla of logic on doing a trade. Smaller land for a trade for bigger land? Joe McKenna, the CEO, is a snake oil salesman. Don't let this man put one foot into Payne Park, ever!
I go to pyane park all the time
Such a beautiful place.
No to building on Payne Park !!!!
I urge the City of Sarasota to keep Payne Park a park as it was given to the City by the Payne family.
Save the park!
Enough of the green space grabs already! Sarasota is losing it's charm for greed
No on the orchestra! Keep it to the intent of the Payne donation. Park for outdoor use only!
leave the park a park!