[Keith P.]

It is an interesting contrast when you use Central Park as a comparator. That is a remarkable park with all kind of uses. Fields for playing sports, or playing fetch with Fido, rowboats to rent, lots of walking paths with benches and water fountains and amenities, all sorts of things. PPP here has the paths and a few fields but is mostly scrub now that the trees were blown down in the hurricane. The one place to eat was taken over by the theater people and so there are few amenities at all, typical of Halifax. The people advocating for Blue Mountain want it as a nature preserve which means almost no amenities whatsoever and thus very limited use by most of the general public who are not avid backwoods types. I really do not support that. If we are going to spend money on parks they need to be usable spaces for most citizens.