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Save Kelley Park Orchard from Development (San Jose, CA)

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Dawn Ellner
11 years ago

The orchard is needed much more than disc golf.

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Danielle downey
11 years ago

do not build a golf course here PLEASE this city needs this park I've been here my entire 40 years and new development is needed just not to replace !!

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Petie Walker
11 years ago

I have serious concerns for safety: for people, the orchard and its animals and property, with the heavy usage by disc golfers and an increased probability of fire. I'm concerned that with heavy and constant usage by disc golfers that plants and animals will be killed off. I've been lucky enough to have seen wild turkeys, foxes, a coyote, raccoons, skunks, opossums, field mice, and a wide variety of birds in the orchard. This is a birding "hot spot," where birds can be seed that are not seen outside of this orchard.

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Save Kelly Park Orchard Neighbors · petition starter
11 years ago

San Jose

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David Taylor
11 years ago

I have friends who use the park and orchard. It needs to be saved for everyone.

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Anne Stamos
11 years ago

please do not destroy one of the last remaining wild spaces in San Jose by allowing any development in Kelley Park Orchard.

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Susan Hays
11 years ago

We son't need more traffic & people in this area. Please, save what little wildlife we have.

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Elisa Lotti
11 years ago

Compassion dictates that we leave nature alone. We've already (arrogantly) destroyed enough.

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Pamela Hill
11 years ago

Save this natural land, please !

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Amanda Mosby
11 years ago

Save the orchards! It's San Jose's history.

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Laura Palazzolo
11 years ago

San Jose

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Save Kelly Park Orchard Neighbors · petition starter
11 years ago

We are trying to gather as many signatures as possible before our meeting with Park and Rec next week. Please share.

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Stephen Schmidt
11 years ago

I would be much happier with a disc golf course at Kelly Park than the current homeless encampments that spring up there on a regular basis. A Disc Golf course would bring low cost recreation to the neighborhood and ensure the area is clean, safe well maintained.

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Save Kelly Park Orchard Neighbors · petition starter
11 years ago

There have not been issues with homeless the past year. Activity in the orchard during the day will not keep people from sleeping along the creek banks at night. The homeless have never lived in the orchard itself but along the creek. The damage caused by the discs to the trees and trampling the undergrowth is far too great a price for what little value a course would add to this area. Did you know that 52 residents of the adjoining neighborhood are against the disc golf? So I guess they do not agree with someone who does not even live in the area and is on the board of directors for the Silicon Valley Disc Golf Club. Seems your opinion is a bit self serving.

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Save Kelly Park Orchard Neighbors · petition starter
11 years ago

Did you know that according to Cornell Universities web site: http://ebird.org/ 79 Species have been recorded here over the last few years. Source: http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L1317790?yr=all&m&rank=mrec — at Kelley Park Orchard, San Jose, CA.