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Saturday, August 11, 2018

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.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Sledge said...

How many lighted,open volleyball courts are there in South Dade? And as nice as the ones on Kennedy Park? As much as we love park life and sports, after living 11 years right there across the street, I'd say it's probably not the best idea. It would crowd South Bayshore drive and Kennedy park even more than they already are. And don't think that volleyball players are strickly athletes.. and their enthusiastic, often high-on-something spectators, often like to spice up their refreshments at night.. Which can lead to driving problems, and whatnot. Keep the place dark at night. Sometimes darkness is best.

August 12, 2018 3:53 PM  
Blogger Sledge said...

Instead, what should be done is build more sandy volleyball courts in more parks or parking lots all over Dade and Broward, etc. Build a few on West Grove. Yes volleyball courts on West Grove. Light'em up when and where it makes sense. As they do in rollerblading places, or skateboarding facilities. Kennedy park would get messed up, DUI's would double.

August 12, 2018 4:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We don't want lights!!!!!!!

August 12, 2018 6:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't volleyball a day game? Now they want to light up the park all night with lights and noise? No thank you.

August 13, 2018 2:15 PM  

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