[CPEO-BIF] 19th and Q street neighborhood park, Sacramento, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

19th and Q streets neighborhood park gets community's input

by Amy Wong
Sacramento Press (CA)
June 16, 2011

It's back to the drawing board for designers from the Department of  
Parks and Recreation and City Councilman Steven Cohn. Plans for a new  
park in Midtown need to be refined after a community meeting  
Wednesday that revealed concerns about the future park’s amenities.

...

Located across the light rail tracks from Safeway along T and S  
streets, the 0.9-acre plot of land was acquired by the city of  
Sacramento in 2008-2009 for approximately $2 million and the property  
remains gated off according to Mary Debeauvier, a principal planner  
with the Parks and Recreation Department..

...

According to Morgan Johnson, a Project Manager and consultant of  
ENGEO, a geotechnical and environmental consulting firm based in  
Rocklin, the future park site is classified as a "Brownfield," a term  
used to describe inner city property contaminated because of past  
industrial usage.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/ 
52304/19th_and_Q_streets_neighborhood_park_gets_communitys_input


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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