Opinion: Balboa Park essay series shows just how much Your Say matters [Opinion]
San Diego officials are surveying to determine how the city’s limited financial resources should be used to fix existing problems and identify future needs for the 1,200-acre park, which features The San Diego Zoo, 21 different cultural institutions and museums, 17 specialized gardens and countless obscure treasures. Since launching Your Say in 2019, we have had some questions that didn’t generate the amount of responses we expected.
We’ve received phone calls from people asking how they can contribute and essays from people who don’t even live in San Diego. Essay writers addressed some of the more obvious topics that arise from time to time in our letters section, such as the park’s limited amount of parking, the impacts of homeless people, the pluses and minuses of allowing pop-up vendors, the availability of affordable food options, the pros and cons of putting in a Ferris Wheel or gondola ride, and the dreadful, deplorable, disastrous state of some of the public restrooms.
Some writers suggested raising additional funds, maybe even through personal donations, floating a city bond or ad sales, to cover improvements. Others said they’d be willing to help do the work they suggested themselves. If the question were, “Who cares about Balboa Park?,” these essays prove plenty of people do.
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