To: Mark Olbert, Mayor, Jeff Maltbie, City Manager, Roy Collins, Vice Mayor, Matt Grocott, Council Member, Cameron Johnson, Council Member, and Bob Grassilli, Council Member
Save Laureola Park
Stop the School District from destroying our community and taking over Laureola Park.
Why is this important?
Please sign this petition to save our community.
East San Carlos is a peaceful & lovely community about to be destroyed. At the corner of Old Country and Holly sits a beautiful park with a preschool, community room, picnic tables, benches, barbeque pits, and baseball + soccer fields for children under 12.
Last month I learned that an upscale hotel will be constructed down the block from me starting in 2015. That was hard to swallow, but I understand. Now, I just learned that a new high school construction is also in the works. And the high school wants Laureola Park.
I'm distraught. Our elected government is doing nothing to protect us.
We received NO NOTICE that a 400 student high school is planned for our backyard. Instead we were informed of the School District's plan and vote just a few days ago. We were given the wrong time. By the time we showed up, it was obvious the decisions had been made. Our voice was not heard.
One block north, the children on Holly street can't play on their front lawns because of dangerous traffic congestion. And now the School District expects us to send small kids to play next to 17 year olds. Or maybe they will just take away the park. Who knows, because we were never told. So much for notice and hearing.
- Where will our children play?
- Are we going to suffer through construction sounds to the east and west for the next two years?
- What is being done to prevent all these strangers from parking and speeding down our streets?
- Why is the San Carlos government doing nothing to protect us?
- Why is the School District spending our tax dollars to place students on top of a railroad track, a natural gas pipeline, and 1 mile from an airport and major highway? The environmental study, traffic study -- NOTHING has been completed and shared with the public.
East San Carlos is a peaceful & lovely community about to be destroyed. At the corner of Old Country and Holly sits a beautiful park with a preschool, community room, picnic tables, benches, barbeque pits, and baseball + soccer fields for children under 12.
Last month I learned that an upscale hotel will be constructed down the block from me starting in 2015. That was hard to swallow, but I understand. Now, I just learned that a new high school construction is also in the works. And the high school wants Laureola Park.
I'm distraught. Our elected government is doing nothing to protect us.
We received NO NOTICE that a 400 student high school is planned for our backyard. Instead we were informed of the School District's plan and vote just a few days ago. We were given the wrong time. By the time we showed up, it was obvious the decisions had been made. Our voice was not heard.
One block north, the children on Holly street can't play on their front lawns because of dangerous traffic congestion. And now the School District expects us to send small kids to play next to 17 year olds. Or maybe they will just take away the park. Who knows, because we were never told. So much for notice and hearing.
- Where will our children play?
- Are we going to suffer through construction sounds to the east and west for the next two years?
- What is being done to prevent all these strangers from parking and speeding down our streets?
- Why is the San Carlos government doing nothing to protect us?
- Why is the School District spending our tax dollars to place students on top of a railroad track, a natural gas pipeline, and 1 mile from an airport and major highway? The environmental study, traffic study -- NOTHING has been completed and shared with the public.