DEIS: Neighborhood impacts; Impacts from proposed waterfront esplanade and ballfields

IMPACTS FROM PROPOSED WATERFRONT ESPLANADE AND BALLFIELDS

Draft EIS states:

The 5.11 acres of proposed parkland along the waterfront would be an added benefit to existing workers and residents, but would not be immediately adjacent to the residential areas and therefore would not have a significant effect on residential property values.

Response:

The waterfront esplanade will not have an effect on residential property values because it would be a worthless facility – essentially an “esplanade to nowhere”. It would not be near anything besides fenced off parking lots and would not be easy to access by the community. It would also not connect anything besides two isolated ballfields to a parking lot that the ballfield users would not be able to park in.