Comments on: Dolores Park Playground Construction Means Less Park Play for Seven Months

By: mcg

mcg — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:27:09 +0000

Seems to me that implying that Gays aren’t parents and don’t have children is a serious attack on the Gay community…

By: localmom

localmom — Tue, 24 May 2011 01:28:43 +0000

Sorry, I am with DPClean, and the fact that there are other parks is no consolation for local families who are on foot with small children. To close both playgrounds at the same time is just ridiculous.

By: Schooner

Schooner — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:12:21 +0000

What an idiotic, hateful rant. Perfect example of what is wrong with SF and Dolores Park–people are way too self entitled. Dolores Park should be about everybody getting along kids, gays, slack liners, hipsters, etc.

By: mcg

mcg — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:32:09 +0000

The only area currently being renovated is the children’s playground, it will continue to be the only area in Dolores Park that is designated for children’s play.

There was an extensive community process and community involvement throughout the whole design period. Please get involved in that process to voice your ideas for the renovation of the rest of the park area.

By: Joe Tuna

Joe Tuna — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:06:44 +0000

To call this an “attack” on the Castro’s gay community is absurd. “Who” these generous volunteers and donors are is a matter of public record, and the values they represent appear to be the kind that favor safe, non-toxic, non-flooded-in-the-winter playgrounds for kids (a percentage of which, will grow up to be gay).

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By: Brisa Tropical

Brisa Tropical — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:48:10 +0000

The south side of Alta Plaza would make a good alternative; always sunny, close to the #22 & #24; access to food and drink.

By: Jesse Oliver Sanford

Jesse Oliver Sanford — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:28:16 +0000

This group, “Friends of Dolores Park Playground,” is implicitly attacking the gay community in the Castro. One by one, our hangout and cruising spaces are fenced in and “updated” out of existence. Who are these people and whose values do they really represent?

If this plan goes forward, it will destroy an important gay hangout, sunbathing and cruising area, the “man shelf” or “gay beach” above the playground. Like Collingwood Park before it, a divided Dolores Park means a hostile territory for many gay men. Where are we supposed to go next?

By: Blake

Blake — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:56:12 +0000

Dolores Park isn’t just for kids, and I hope city officials recognize that in the planning and reconstruction. It’s in a dense urban area surrounded by plenty of people who don’t have kids and are just as entitled to park space.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:53:24 +0000

Any closure is going to be inconvenient to routine, but there are additional local playgrounds – the Kids Power Park and Duboce triangle playground to name two that we use frequently (albeit they are aimed at the younger kids). Parents may discover new playgrounds that they previously didn’t know about – and ones that don’t have signs warning them to wash their kids hands afterwards because of the arsenic on the current play structures. You can find a full list of playgrounds and parks on the SF Kids web site.