Dear Editor,
When will the city do something about the mud hole known as the
cast half of Las Animas Veterans Park? Ask Mayor Al Pinheiro and
you get no response.
Dear Editor,
When will the city do something about the mud hole known as the cast half of Las Animas Veterans Park? Ask Mayor Al Pinheiro and you get no response.
Originally built to have a pond, flood-control was not taken into forethought, which the city and the illustrious parks and recreation department learned the hard way during the 1986 flood. It has been a smelly, muddy mess ever since. It’s even uglier than the grating surrounding the skateboard facility, and has become a haven for social debris who are a nuisance to those of us who live nearby.
Fill it in, creating a huge, laser-leveled green; that would be the cheapest action. Whatever they do, this should come before building new facilities like the cultural center and more parks that they will let spoil. If they can’t take care of what they have now, today’s purchase is tomorrow’s eyesore – typical public facilities!
In complete hypocrisy, the City Council passed a blight ordinance so the police can harass property owners for parking cars on their lawns (which I admittedly do as a mere civil disobedience to protest said hypocrites) while ignoring the biggest eyesore in Gilroy, Las Animas Veterans Park. Fix it.
Alan Viarengo, Gilroy
