For family enjoyment try having a picnic

Re: Council policy dated June 19, 2018 states the purpose of the park land is to ensure parks remain in the public domain and the implementation of Park Land Protection and Use Policy.

That park land is an unencumbered tract of land that belongs to the public for protection, conservation, preservation of the natural, physical, historical and cultural resources. Whereas, an encumbrance is a burden, obstruction or impediment to the foundational purpose for which the park was established.

(Those are the City’s words.)

Clearly Trio Marine did nothing to teach current council to deter them from trying to bring commercialism into family oriented public parks. Alcohol purchase? Not alcohol consumption, but purchase.

Aren’t there enough alcohol dispensers in Penticton? Do we really need drunken fools wandering around our family’s play time? As well, Council is wanting to tear out the marina parking lot to make way for added green space that council will plan to use for four to eight vendors.

Vendors frying doughnuts, hamburgers, hotdogs, french fries... so now our clean park air smells of fried food. If it is food the public is wanting, why not try for an old fashioned family picnic? Does nothing stand as a reminder of the ambition and huberis of previous council?

That City Hall feels erroneously to make changes to publicly-owned property of their own volition? Trio failed and still current Council and Parks and Rec show no respect for the people’s wishes to keep park land just that park land.

Not land to conduct commerce.

Karen Brownlee

Penticton