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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The city pays for maintenance of parks, rec centers and schools.  They just don't seem to do a good job at any of it so I was just making the point that there could be efficiencies.  But they obviously need to allocate more money across the board.  The city doesn't have enough fields for the growing public demand even when you include school fields thanks to the same baby boom/population growth that has caused overcrowding in many schools.  [/quote]

You are delusional. There are more than enough fields and playgrounds. The only ones that colonizers seem to be fretting over are the ones on newly renovated school grounds. [/quote]

There is a pretty severe shortage of athletic field space, at least during the sports seasons. At least for rectangular fields, they are booked pretty much continuously and the natural grass ones suffer from overuse.

DPR has a problem that roughly two thirds of their fields are baseball fields and are only permitted for "diamond sports" -- baseball, softball and kickball. Those fields are lightly used. The rectangular fields are heavily used. [/quote]

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