Born & raised in the piedmont; no more subdivisions, no more development. Stop "progressing." Leave us alone.
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Anonymous
3 years ago
Save baseball and the field!!
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Anonymous
3 years ago
I support saving the baseball field! Baseball is at the rise for our young boys and softball for women. Baseball/softball is not just for students but also great recreation for adults. Save this field and find a separate location for cricket - loudoun county is the richest county - I’m am sure there is a way to save and improve Mickey Gordon Park but to also build new field for Cricket enthusiasts!
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Susan Lynch
3 years ago
We do not want this park in or around Middleburg. Too many 2 lane roads with no lighting or lane markings that cannot handle the increased traffic. A great place to have these fields is Purcellville or Leesburg. Long Park in HayMarket also would be a good location. The infrastructure is already there.
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Bo Foglesong
3 years ago
Save the park. Remember when we worked so hard for Place To Play! PTP will be a thing again. Don’t go backwards.
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Susan Kelly
3 years ago
Important to preserve Middleburg's important land features and land use.
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Jeff Milburn
3 years ago
Why do LCPRD officials think it's OK to eliminate a 60' foot little league diamond and a 90' foot baseball diamond?
Are these diamonds no longer being used?
It's obvious why they are trying to renovate Mickie Gordon Park into cricket fields because it's the cheapest land grab to do such! Put the cricket fields where the need/want is!
How many Middleburg/Purcellville residents are requesting these cricket fields?
Please by all means LOCO officials, please share the results of such a survey or whatever you have and please have names and addresses of such individuals requesting cricket fields in Middleburg.
For the record, to the folks speaking about the LED lights, the LED lights today vs. the incandescent lights of old do not have any light spillage as the LED lighting is concentrated and contained onto the field.
I have played on that 90' baseball diamond field in the men's baseball league and coached on it as well when I was at Notre Dame Academy.
By the way, WHO allowed the fox in the hen house already at Mickie Gordon Park?
It states ... A cricket pitch in the center of the baseball field at Mickie Gordon Memorial Park was the first installed by the county parks department to accommodate its fastest growing sport.
https://www.loudounnow.com/news/western-loudoun-cricket-complex-plan-paused-in-the-wake-of-community-concerns/article_6d0107c0-06fb-11ee-83ab-abc4278cb293.html
Wonder who approved that to take place back in 2016?
If the Middleburg/Purcellville area residents allow this, then you are erasing the history of Mickie Gordon and that is not right!
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Viviane Warren
3 years ago
No development at MGorden Park
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Kate Ramos
3 years ago
My kids all played baseball at Mickie Gordon park! Keep it! Make it better! Put money into it for baseball/softball tourneys!!!
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Adrienne
3 years ago
I do not agree with replacing this field with a cricket field.
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Michelle Pablo
3 years ago
there is too much traffic in this particular area already and I have seen countless accidents or near - accidents that make this far too dangerous
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Patricia Olson
3 years ago
I feel this field is needed. Children need a place to play ball and to learn how to work together as a team. They have so much fun learning the sport along with making new friends and encouraging each other to do better. Please don’t take away their opportunity to grow and learn this great American sport! They will make lifelong friendships and great memories !
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Mary Ann Cowden
3 years ago
In this county we should be able to Keep and improve the baseball fields.
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Charlene Kurihara
3 years ago
We need ballfields
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Ryan Price
3 years ago
This park is for baseball! Upgrade the baseball facility and build the cricket fields elsewhere!
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Greg Bokman
3 years ago
There is already a significant shortage of baseball fields in Loudoun County. Keep M Gordon Park as an active baseball facility!
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Keith Hillenbrand
3 years ago
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Please don't change the park! How about building the new fields at the Old Arcola Elementary school site? The school has been boarded up for years and there is plenty of land for cricket courts. Stone springs Blvd. Rt 659.
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Richard Kelsey
3 years ago
We need more baseball facilities, with turf as well. Removing a lighted baseball field from inventory makes zero sense.
This park was dedicated to my uncle.
Let the kids play!!!
Born & raised in the piedmont; no more subdivisions, no more development. Stop "progressing." Leave us alone.
Save baseball and the field!!
I support saving the baseball field! Baseball is at the rise for our young boys and softball for women. Baseball/softball is not just for students but also great recreation for adults. Save this field and find a separate location for cricket - loudoun county is the richest county - I’m am sure there is a way to save and improve Mickey Gordon Park but to also build new field for Cricket enthusiasts!
We do not want this park in or around Middleburg. Too many 2 lane roads with no lighting or lane markings that cannot handle the increased traffic. A great place to have these fields is Purcellville or Leesburg. Long Park in HayMarket also would be a good location. The infrastructure is already there.
Save the park. Remember when we worked so hard for Place To Play! PTP will be a thing again. Don’t go backwards.
Important to preserve Middleburg's important land features and land use.
Why do LCPRD officials think it's OK to eliminate a 60' foot little league diamond and a 90' foot baseball diamond? Are these diamonds no longer being used? It's obvious why they are trying to renovate Mickie Gordon Park into cricket fields because it's the cheapest land grab to do such! Put the cricket fields where the need/want is! How many Middleburg/Purcellville residents are requesting these cricket fields? Please by all means LOCO officials, please share the results of such a survey or whatever you have and please have names and addresses of such individuals requesting cricket fields in Middleburg. For the record, to the folks speaking about the LED lights, the LED lights today vs. the incandescent lights of old do not have any light spillage as the LED lighting is concentrated and contained onto the field. I have played on that 90' baseball diamond field in the men's baseball league and coached on it as well when I was at Notre Dame Academy. By the way, WHO allowed the fox in the hen house already at Mickie Gordon Park? It states ... A cricket pitch in the center of the baseball field at Mickie Gordon Memorial Park was the first installed by the county parks department to accommodate its fastest growing sport. https://www.loudounnow.com/news/western-loudoun-cricket-complex-plan-paused-in-the-wake-of-community-concerns/article_6d0107c0-06fb-11ee-83ab-abc4278cb293.html Wonder who approved that to take place back in 2016? If the Middleburg/Purcellville area residents allow this, then you are erasing the history of Mickie Gordon and that is not right!
No development at MGorden Park
My kids all played baseball at Mickie Gordon park! Keep it! Make it better! Put money into it for baseball/softball tourneys!!!
I do not agree with replacing this field with a cricket field.
there is too much traffic in this particular area already and I have seen countless accidents or near - accidents that make this far too dangerous
I feel this field is needed. Children need a place to play ball and to learn how to work together as a team. They have so much fun learning the sport along with making new friends and encouraging each other to do better. Please don’t take away their opportunity to grow and learn this great American sport! They will make lifelong friendships and great memories !
In this county we should be able to Keep and improve the baseball fields.
We need ballfields
This park is for baseball! Upgrade the baseball facility and build the cricket fields elsewhere!
There is already a significant shortage of baseball fields in Loudoun County. Keep M Gordon Park as an active baseball facility!
Please don't change the park! How about building the new fields at the Old Arcola Elementary school site? The school has been boarded up for years and there is plenty of land for cricket courts. Stone springs Blvd. Rt 659.
We need more baseball facilities, with turf as well. Removing a lighted baseball field from inventory makes zero sense.