Evatt Park - Temp Traditional Geocache
Krypton: As there's been no response to my previous note, I assume that the cache is not going to be repaired or replaced, so I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us, and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it
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The park is not open... Will it be? This lot has been closed for years... Will it ever open... HUMMM wait and see...
I saw this park comming... And I want it.... Because of what it covers... Humm might be a puzzle cache in this some day... but for now the park nearby is closed and acording to a recent paper... It may change before it opens... HUMM...
Here is the paper clipping... From the Milpitas post.
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Tot lot placement borders on "Twilight Zone," official says
by Ian Bauer
Article Launched: 05/23/2007 03:33:45 PM PDT
Click photo to enlarge«1»Vice Mayor Bob Livengood said he thought he was in the "Twilight Zone" after he saw what was installed on busy South Main Street.
During a May 16 budget hearing at Milpitas City Hall, Livengood told city staff that a newly built tot lot park complete with children's playground equipment, and located on the east side of the light industrial 500 block of South Main Street was absolutely in the wrong place.
"How did this happen, and how do we fix it?" he asked.
City Manager Tom Williams said the tot lot was a public park the eastern tip of a linear park along the Hetch-Hetchy right-of-way between South Main and South Abel streets.
Part of KB Home's Terra Serena condominium project, the linear park, along with two other parks, is an element of the condo project that's still under construction.
Although the linear park may be named for Milpitas' first mayor, Tom Evatt, city council approval for the park's naming is pending.
During last week's council meeting, Williams was initially unsure whether Milpitas City Council had approved the tot lot's installation.
"For the record, I think that that approval stopped at the planning commission," he said.
The city manager soon acknowledged that the tot lot was "something that quite frankly I'm going to recommend that we correct."
Williams said that the tot lot was most likely developed because of its location on the Hetch-Hetchy right-of-way, and because no other type of development was feasible.
"...And that's why a park was established," Williams said. "With the benefit of hindsight, I think that is going to be more conducive to an urban park that will be a plaza or some type of a passive park that as South Main Street is developed to a mixed-use buildout, that having a nice urban hard-scape a more passive park or plaza is more conducive."
Williams added the city had planned to install traffic controls and a pedestrian crossing on Main Street.
"However, I am concerned as you are stating that just may not be conducive to younger children crossing Main Street," Williams said.
Livengood agreed with the city manager's appraisal of the tot lot.
"I really thought I was in the ÔTwilight Zone' when I saw that thing. It's so incongruous with what's going on down there and with development; it's an oversight of some type," Livengood said.
The vice mayor suggested the city needed to correct that mistake, without laying blame at anyone's feet.
"Rather than pointing fingers at anybody, let's just fix it because it just doesn't make any sense," Livengood said.
City staff members did not return phone calls about whether the tot lot would be removed or fenced, and what the cost of equipment removal, if needed, would be.
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