Regarding front page article “Ball-field fun isn’t free” in Sunday’s paper:
Permits required for fields provided for our kids to play baseball and soccer to cost $1,500 for smaller fields and as much as $15,000 for larger fields. There have been many fields donated before the Growth Management Act and the county senior planner says it has been illegal since the 1950s for change of land use. Having grown up before the ’50s, growth management doesn’t count when it comes to special whims. I don’t see what it has to do with donated ball fields for kids. It surely isn’t cement roads and parking lots, huge tall buildings and a traffic-jamming metropolis.
Speaking of traffic – there also is a cost of $5,000 to $10,000 for a traffic study. Does not the county have a qualified engineer on the payroll to do the study at no cost?
One contributor provides 42 acres for soccer – his fields, his land, his deed. Will the county maintain these fields if requirements are met? Kids kept busy means fewer bored, nothing-to-do kids.
Why are land owners at the mercy of the county? Will the county replace the fields at taxpayer expense?
Hopefully, these kids, the leaders of tomorrow, will represent the salary payer when it’s their turn to go to bat!
BERLENE CLARK
Everett
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