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Wellfield Park, Lime, Kimley Horn, Jim Bennett

From: lima charlie
Remote Name: 71.203.11.227
Date: 03/22/12
Time: 07:01 AM

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I’m glad that Jim Bennett found and published the outline for Lavalle’s handshake deal with Kimley Horn and Challenger baseball. The city manager’s letter to Marty Black makes it clear that Kimley Horn is in line to develop the woodland habitat, do some grading and move a lime dumping ground so that a Challenger baseball facility can be built in the park. (former City manager, Black “retired” from Venice and joined the engineering and development resource firm of Kimley-Horn 3 years ago and quickly became manager of a number of Venice projects). Of course, some nearby residents are upset because they would lose a natural habitat and recreational area, and this would be replaced with graded lots, light poles, and baseball diamonds. Of course, public projects are the only source of public money, and in these hard times for private development, public money is the way to go. But one wonders if there is more to it than that. A few years ago, a local historian noted that the Marty Black’s old scheme to build a marina off the airport, was actually a plan to sell all the fill that would have to be dug up. Yes, sounds crazy, I know, but that is exactly the kind of business sense we so often see in this City. So I looked into the value of lime as fertilizer…. Yup, there is probably a reason why they want to locate those ball fields on the lime dump.