What Do You Think?
Perhaps you've heard of the City of Fairfield's proposal to sell part of 46.5 acre Allan Witt Park to developers to build 700 residential and retail units in 3 and 4 storey buildings, townhomes and single-family attached housing. The City says the proceeds from the park sale will be used to construct a Sports Complex and baseball fields a mile or two away next to the sewage treatment facility, relocate tennis and basketball courts to other community parks (Laurel Creek) several miles away, build a Youth Center two miles away on North Texas Street, and improve remaining facilities at Allan Witt Park. To find out more visit http://www.allanwittpark.org
We would like to know your thoughts about this proposal. Do you think it will improve the park experience and attract visitors to Fairfield? Will this development trigger revitalization along the West Texas Street corridor and improve the West Texas Gateway to our city? Will the new facilities sustain themselves or become a financial burden on the City? Is this proposal good for Fairfield? Let us know what you think! Click on the Comments link below to add your thoughts to this page.
Brad Smith
Friends of Allan Witt Park
We would like to know your thoughts about this proposal. Do you think it will improve the park experience and attract visitors to Fairfield? Will this development trigger revitalization along the West Texas Street corridor and improve the West Texas Gateway to our city? Will the new facilities sustain themselves or become a financial burden on the City? Is this proposal good for Fairfield? Let us know what you think! Click on the Comments link below to add your thoughts to this page.
Brad Smith
Friends of Allan Witt Park
6 Comments:
The Sports Complex page is interesting. It could produce a lot of cash for the city once the four-year startup period ends. What revenues for host cities have the other sites generated? I agree that we should not trade Allan Witt Park for it though.
By Anonymous, at 12/08/2004 10:29 PM
I have mixed feelings about the changes proposed to Allan Witt Park. I use the park, play tennis, basketball or just walk through the park, throw a frisbee. Love the big vistas, green fields, abundance of trees and birds. Quite different than Rockville Park, nothing else like it around.
However, there are times I'm wary of walking through the park, never at night ... seems to be less dangerous characters nowadays... fence prob. helped and no more dumpy county hospital across the street.
Probably the most popular and continously used area of the park is the Skate Park. Not all will agree with the grafitti, but hey it's the kids world and they seem to love it. Rather see them getting exercise then sitting in front of a TV, obesity being such a problem nowadays. Baseball diamonds are used but probably underused space ... could be better used? Think how popular main events are at the Suisun Harbor or downtown Fairfield and then think how generally abandoned Allan Witt Park is ...not enough "draw" things to do there? People too scared to go there? I think when that happens people just seem to come up with "development" ideas to make space more useful. Look at the beautiful green Panorama quicktime movie, it's dead, you'll see more people in far away Rockville Park.
I think the pressure is steering things in a better, more park-like direction. The Sports Complex is an interesting idea. More housing, I don't know, there's already the big apartment development across the street .... have to be concerned about more traffic.
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By Anonymous, at 8/12/2005 5:03 PM
I an not accept that the City Council would so blatantly cheat the future residents ( as well as ourselves) of the opportunity to "taste" open spaces. Our population is expanding, but to use up such space for housing is not conscienable to me. If they really want to buld downtown, around the park area, let them buy out the small shops located on the same length of block as the park & raze the shops.
To paraphrase Will Rogers - lets not squander the land, they're not making it anymore...
By Anonymous, at 8/24/2005 6:28 PM
I must commend the City of Fairfield for creating it vision for the Park’s renaissance as well as the creation of the new, nearby sports complex. When implemented, this vision will result in positive elements now lacking in the neighborhood, namely:
§ Increases the use of enhanced public spaces.
§ Reinforces a sense of identity among residents and encouraging them to help actively manage their neighborhood.
§ Enhances people’s safety and security.
§ Makes access to transit alternatives practical and useful.
§ Makes local merchants more viable.
§ Delivers savings on infrastructure.
§ Offers people a housing choice in a distinctive new neighborhood.
The City correctly realizes that the current condition and use of the Allan Witt Park area highlights the need for neighborhoods and public spaces to adapt to changing needs. Memories of past good times at the park are to be cherished by those who hold them. Let’s let the existing neighborhood and future park users and residents experience their own fond memories, too.
By Anonymous, at 11/17/2005 11:38 AM
Oh my! I see that the hyperbole of the opponents of revitalizing Allen Witt Park have reached new levels of hypocrisy. Folks like this always take the same tact in their zeal to adopt a cause. They conveniently avoid explaining how their vision is to be financed. They engage in innuendo and character assassination (e.g., “ugly housing units”, “fast-talking developers”, “horrifying proposal”). They always claim that their position is more “sophisticated”. They always resort to calling for an election, ignoring the fact that we live in a representative democracy. And to add further insult to the City Counci, they would like to trap them into taking a firm position before the environmental impact report is out.
The park is a mess and there are virtually no public funds to fix it. The City, to its credit, has a forward-looking plan to deal not only with the park’s resurgence, but to provide for new and emerging recreational opportunities at the new sports complex.
Let’s see what the reports say before engaging in the rhetoric of exaggeration.
By Anonymous, at 11/22/2005 10:50 AM
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