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HAMMITT Bob From: MEDLIN Johnny R To: EVELETH Doug A Cc: ETTER John F; MORGAN Dick A; HAMMITT Bob; Patrick, Tim (RIS1) Subject: Lighting at Peterson Park Date: Monday, February 06, 1995 8:30AM Hi Doug, I recently reviewed a memo from Tim Patrick to you and Dick Morgan regarding lighting at Peterson Park and while I'm cautiously optimistic I wanted to flag a couple of issues for you. First, I believe you will need more input from the immediate neighbors than is supplied by working with the Neighborhood group. I say this from a recent experience of our starting to do a picnic table placement project at the request of ABC and then having the project stopped by the immediate neighbors who didn't want the tables next to their properties. I think lighting has the potential of being even more controversial. At the very least 1 would think individual notification of the immediate neighbors and allowing a period of time for their comment would be required. I'm not sure who would need to do this public process but it is not in Park Planning's current very full work plan. I would want to look very closely at current project priorities prior to John's taking on another project right now. Second, I suspect that John Etter's recent experience with the Amazon jogging path lighting project may of changed his feelings a little about volunteers taking on a large volunteer project. There were problems with not sufficient review of the design, lack of volunteer supervision and lack of knowledge of construction technique. We ended up having to do extensive inspection that wasn't anticipated. I'm not sure who would take staff lead on design, review, and construction coordination but it very likely would be more time consuming for staff than one would think.. I don't want to throw cold water on the idea and enthusiasm, but neither do I once again want us to get into the middle of a project without having the details worked out ahead of time. Thanks Johnny Page 1