PETITION TO PRESERVE PAYNE PARK

I am a downtown resident and am appalled that as we add additional to the street condo living we take away the little green space we have. Just from a practical stance where fo people take all the additional dogs that come with more residents! The Symphony has a home which will require considerable update. Thats why they raised the money. If they need more to meet Fema requirements that is an isdie of doing more to raise more. And lets face it as a donor to much in Sarasota I and you know there us plenty here. For an organization that is here to serve the community it is outrageous that they will alienate that same community.

Please allow large number of people to enjoy playing tennis and be sociable while exercising healthy life style. Thank you!

Please DENY the orchestra's proposal to build on 7 acres of our and your parkland.

Park land and green space is a vital part of a vibrant city. Once it's built, it's gone forever. There are other places to accommodate the Orchestra - please leave some nature and outdoor activity options as they are, and do not build a concert hall in our park!!

My grandson's middle school plays their school's matches at Payne Park tennis courts.

The orchestra should work with other arts groups - ballet, gloria musica, opera, modern dance - to develop a world class arts center east of I-75, perhaps in the new Fruitville Initiative area.

Part-time Sarasota renter finds this as yet another example of out-of-control growth for the benefit of few, especially those with money. So sad...

yOU WILL BE CHANGING THE CHARACTER OF THE CITY FOR THE WORSE BY MOVING THE ORCHESTRA TO AN AREA WHICH IS WHAT MAKES SARAASOTA THE GREAT SPOT IT IS- OPEN SPACE DOWNTOWN!!

We are both enjoying Payne Park. The greenery and animals are a plus. More tennis courts are needed already.

Enough is enough...stop the developers being greedy by turning our beautiful city into another gigantic concrete jungle. Protect this valuable park and piece of green space as was intended in its natural state for the humans and wild life to enjoy and value. Sarasota has plenty of culture and theaters, or use another empty lots/malls.

There is no such thing as a ‘paved paradise’. There is only ‘pavement’. Sensitivity and awareness is intelligence. Look at this city. It’s becoming ‘anywhere USA’. PLEASE! No more encroachment on what little is left in which nature can thrive. We are nature and nature is us. Once Payne Park is chopped up and essentially its natural habitat is destroyed, there’s no getting it back.

In addition to the fact that this is a land grab the Orchestra cannot possibly support itself in the years to come with its seriously ageing audience and the lack of interest among younger people.

I'm a musician, I love our orchestra and it's fabulous musicians BUT I love this park this park. I love the ponds, birds, trees, taking my granddaughter to the circus park, watching the birds with her, rolling down that little mound with her.....we NEED this green space when so much has gone to constant development. Put the new symphony hall in one of the many eyesore defunct shopping malls. Stop Benderson's plans for that huge area mall at Beneva and Fruitville. Urge them to help the arts as well as rowing and building more and more at UTC, Stickney Point. Lord knows they re making endless money off of Sarasota

Keep Payne Park without development like the orchestra.

Protect the wildlife preserve

Open green space in the middle of a developing city is an invaluable commodity. Please consider the growth path of the city and what the space would mean to future generations.

The orchestra can be accommodated at its current site w/o destroying/diminishing Payne’s park setting.

Save my full green space —let me live!

Use the van weasel parking lot. Do not disrupt the habitats already established. Have a heart. Enough building in Sarasota. Cherish what we have.

This is a landgrab! It is wrong on so many levels… We need our green open spaces, filled with natural habitat. The Orchestra can go somewhere else!