Petition for the Safety of the Children

We the undersigned---oppose the Alexandria City Public School system's proposed plan to move the current location of the Buchanan Street Playground and basketball court to redevelop the Jefferson-Houston School site as relocating these amenities would place our children at risk from moving vehicles while at play. Keep the parking lot by the playground closed to through traffic, and place the drop off for the school on the other side of the pool and wrap around the Durant Center. Once the current school is removed, more parking and a drive through area will be open space for this use. If there is a drive through wrapped around the pool that will force children to cross two open driveways with almost continuous vehicles coming in and out. The plan to move the playground and the basketball court to behind the Durant Center would place the two amenities right in the middle of moving traffic, this would be a great risk for all that use these. Keep our children safe, keep the current locations in place and give us the new playground and paint the court where they are.