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Originally Posted by Keith P.
The old beat-up playground was already destroyed by vandals once. Something like this will be an instant target and will quickly fall into disrepair. It will sit unused 6 months of the year. Who will pay for the operator, for the power bill, the liability insurance, the maintenance/upkeep, and all the other costs associated with running the thing? I see this quickly falling into HRM's lap and becoming yet another piece of municipal property that will become very expensive very quickly.
There are far better uses for Dartmouth's waterfront land than this. If it is currently underutilized, a carousel will not solve that problem. Let's get it properly utilized instead. This sounds like another ridiculous waste of money like the community oven Gloria paid $20K for.
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From a CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) perspective, that park doesn't really meet CPTED requirements. I'm not surprised the playground was torched - you can't get eyes in the park very well. So I would agree, putting anything like a carousel there would just be inviting damage.
That said, I wonder if modifications to the park and the increase in population associated with King's Wharf would help the situation?
Isn't there a park proposed for King's wharf or an extension of the waterfront boardwalk? Why not a carousel in there? If the whole point of King's Wharf was to try to mimic Vancouver and create a watertaxi drop off point, perhaps the board walk, shops and Carousel could add to that feel?