Pity the poor residents of Philadelphia, they have to sit by the river and be able see it! They haven't been blessed with a growing weed wall to block both view and access to the water, like us lucky residents in Allentown.
Allentown Park policy has been governed by the Wildlands Conservancy for the last decade. The previous park director agreed to allow the Conservancy to demolish the Robin Hood Dam, in Lehigh Parkway, before he saw the park himself. When I took him on a tour of the WPA Structures in the park, and complained about the Riparian Buffer, he said that water can be more exciting when you only get an occasional glimpse of it.
It is my hope that under the new O'Connell administration, Allentown will again start honoring our iconic park traditions. I will lobby that several areas in each park be kept buffer free for the enjoyment of its citizens.
In a comment yesterday, I stated that changes were coming to molovinsky on allentown. Although I have produced the blog each weekday for over eleven years, starting next week the blog, on occasion, will be less Allentown-centric.
The City of Allentown and all the various officials you have wasted your time by being so polite to in appealing to clearly declared all-out war on the iconic parks a long, long time ago. All these years later, the battles have already long since been fought and won while the iconic parks are effectively destroyed, never to regain their previous glory. If you want to keep on wasting your time by being nice to O'Connell again, go for it.
ReplyDeleteO'Connell, of course, is the exact same guy who wants me to think he is outraged by the coming water increase that he obviously thinks I'm entirely too stupid to remember that he voted for during his long tenure as a dependable, loyal fixture on the now disgraced Mayor Pawlowski's incredible All-Star Council of Rubberstamp Apparatchiks.
"D" stands for disappointment. "Equality" means everyone as well as everything is equally poor. The people who have been working oh so hard to save you have actually been here for quite some time now. So please enjoy the fruits of their labor at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully,
ROLF OELER