Let there be light

This morning at the Volleyball courts in Kennedy Park.

There is a petition online regarding the lighting at Kennedy Park, specifically at the volleyball courts. The volleyball players want light. The neighbors in the area do not. It's a neighborhood park and closes after dark. The neighbors don't want people coming in from other areas of the city, playing volleyball and bringing lights, crowds and noise at night.

The petition partly reads: "In Nov. 2015 park regulars and community residents including but not limited to court users, lobbied the Superintendent and Director of The City of Miami Parks and Recreation Department (Don Lutton and Kevin Kirwan,  respectively) with a proposal to improve the lighting of the three sand volleyball courts at Kennedy Park. This included a petition in Jan 2016  which collected approximately 100 signatures. After additional and follow-up communications, the City agreed to secure new lighting for the courts."

The Parks Department created a lighting plan and purchased the equipment but the equipment was placed in a storage area and its just sitting there in the south parking lot. The City advised the Parks Department that a public meeting needs to be held in order to decide operating hours of the park along with the lighting hours and the park restroom upgrades. 

So far nothing has been done and the purpose of the petition is to push for the meeting before the fall time change.

I reached out to the Parks Department for their take on the situation but have not received a response yet.