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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have enough parks already. And those ones are sterile, featureless, and underutilized.

A Park without a purpose is just a grassy, county owned vacant lot, another place that has to mowed, cleaned, patrolled and secured.

At least a parking lot generates revenue, and offers a place to put your car while you shop at those "brick and mortar" retailers and restaurants we keep being told are the "backbones of our communities, as I keep hearing over and over.

Ask yourself this: when was the last time you did something - ANYTHING- in the middle of a sterile, featureless plot of land in between buildings? Something other than traverse it while going somewhere else? Because THAT describes most urban "parks" in MOGO. At best, they might offer a bench or two, or maybe a tiny playground.

But other than that, they may as well be an empty lot. No water features. No art. No sculpture.  No botanical or arboreal features, nothing. Just a patch of grass with a lonely maple tree or two.

That's not a park. We have tons of those already, and don't use the ones we have. We dont need more like it.

We need parkING.  Not parks. 
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I don't know if you work for a developer who has a financial interest in having a parking lot developed, but I think you're the only person I've ever heard of who thinks the Bethesda area has too many parks.  Plus, since the features of these proposed parks hasn't been determined, I don't know why you've assumed they'll be featureless because I can't think of any Bethesda land  that is termed a park that doesn't have benches, '"arboreal features" or perhaps a small playground.  Please cite these "sterile featureless plots of land" that you think are adding no value, because the ones I know are full of kids and the elderly on any given day. [/quote]

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