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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great, then it doesn't matter what size the field is.

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As a soccer player and parent this is one of the things that has frustrated me about this process. Looking at the sketches, it's obvious that whoever drew them didn't know what a soccer field is supposed to look like, and didn't care. The size -- and just as importantly, the shape -- matters a lot. And no, it's not the same as an American football field.[/quote]

The sketches are meant to be indicative, to force a decision now. There will be time figure out the exact details later.[/quote]

Details matter.

Imagine a sketch where there is ample parking shown, but the parking spaces are all drawn as six feet long. Would you say, "yeah, we can go ahead with that"? Or would you say "come back with the parking spaces drawn actual size and then we'll talk" ? And would you feel that maybe they were trying to pull a fast one? The sketches I saw all had the interior lines of the soccer fields drawn at a fraction of their actual size, to make them look bigger than they actually are. If the only way the sketch works is with the details artificially shrunk, then there's a problem with the plan. That's not a detail to be hammered out.

Based on their past performance,  I have no faith in the city's ability to get those details right. DGS has a pretty bad track record of ignoring input and just building whatever.[/quote]

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