- Signatures: 788
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: 2-8-2007
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This petition it to protect Asheville City's largest wooded park form having a large portion of it cleared and leveled for a ball field complex.
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Age | City | State | How long have you been aware of the plans for this park to be developed into a ball field complex? | Do you think the whole park should be protected from development and should focus on recreational activities that work with the land as a natural area |
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| 789 | 3:09 pm PST, Nov 18 | Benjamin Silvestro | 0 | Woodfin | North Carolina | Very recently informed | I absolutely think the park should preserved entirely! There are numerous areas for people to play baseball or any other sport in this city. The natural beauty of our landscape should be held in a much higher priority than a field. | |
| 788 | 8:55 pm PDT, Sep 15 | Ms. | Anonymous | 0 | Asheville | North Carolina | just found out | like the finest great cities Asheville needs to keep some land for parks. What would NYC be without Central Park, or Brooklyn without prospect park? Even downtown needs more parks. How about the old deal buick lot? |
| 787 | 6:09 am PDT, Oct 1 | Ms. | Anis Crofts | 34 | Asheville | North Carolina | 1 month | definately |
| 786 | 4:13 am PDT, Mar 27 | Mrs. | Shannon Sultan | 24 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | ||
| 785 | 2:24 am PST, Feb 17 | terry l. west | 54 | Morgantown | West Virginia | |||
| 784 | 10:55 pm PST, Feb 10 | Laurel Watson | 0 | Maricopa | Arizona | |||
| 783 | 2:50 pm PST, Feb 8 | Greg Manning | 0 | Concord | Ohio | |||
| 782 | 5:42 am PST, Jan 27 | Alessandro Barracciu | 23 | Oristano | ||||
| 781 | 5:41 am PST, Jan 27 | Laura Tatti | 21 | Oristano | ||||
| 779 | 11:42 am PST, Dec 28 | Simos Tarabatzis | 27 | Kavala | ||||
| 777 | 7:46 am PST, Dec 4 | Ines Seidel | 0 | Neubrandenburg | ||||
| 776 | 9:15 am PST, Nov 16 | Anne Seidel | 22 | Nuremberg | ||||
| 775 | 1:28 pm PST, Nov 6 | Steve Dale | 46 | Frankston,victoria | ||||
| 774 | 8:21 pm PDT, Sep 13 | David Webb | 20 | Rock Island | Illinois | |||
| 773 | 12:45 am PDT, Aug 18 | patricia osborne | 28 | Hicksville | New York | |||
| 772 | 9:35 pm PDT, Apr 25 | Mr. | elliot jacobik | 22 | pell city | Alabama | ||
| 771 | 8:22 am PDT, Apr 18 | janice Player | 61 | Asheville | North Carolina | 2 years or more | ||
| 770 | 9:29 pm PDT, Apr 16 | Mr. | Richard Weddle | 22 | Asheville | North Carolina | For about 1 yr. | Yes |
| 769 | 7:29 pm PDT, Apr 8 | Ms. | Kristin Klemm | 21 | Asheville | North Carolina | 6 months | Yes |
| 768 | 4:13 pm PDT, Mar 20 | Ms. | Eva Humphrey | 0 | North Carolina | |||
| 767 | 8:17 pm PDT, Mar 19 | Mrs. | Ann Grygiel | 66 | Asheville | North Carolina | Just recently. | Yes, I do. |
| 766 | 4:15 pm PDT, Mar 17 | Mr. | sam rankin | 47 | asheville | North Carolina | i thought this battle had already been fought and won by the folks with some sense ... the ones who oppose this rediculous plan. | |
| 765 | 4:00 pm PDT, Mar 17 | Mr. | Stephen Davis | 15 | Black Mountain | North Carolina | 1 mouth | yes |
| 764 | 8:55 am PDT, Mar 16 | Ms. | Marian Schleicher | 49 | Weaverville | North Carolina | not aware | Yes |
| 763 | 8:15 am PDT, Mar 16 | Ms. | Hannah K. Sweitzer | 38 | Asheville | North Carolina | just now | yes. |
| 762 | 2:04 pm PDT, Mar 15 | Mr. | David Brown | 24 | Fletcher | North Carolina | I .just became aware of it today, March 15th, 2007. | Absolutely... The land is perfectly suited for a variety of recreational and outdoor activities AS IS. It's stupid to change it. Do a survey- you'll find that many more people would enjoy a place for hiking, mountain biking, picnicking, frisbeeing, reading, cloud-watching and meditating than a place for BASEBALL. Baseball's popularity has been steadily decreasing for years... Do the research... It's common sense. |
| 761 | 12:31 pm PDT, Mar 12 | Mrs. | Diana B. Windels | 63 | Weaverville | North Carolina | I just found out recently. | Yes I do. |
| 760 | 2:27 pm PST, Mar 9 | Deborah A. Cohen | 55 | North Carolina | Yes, I know these plans have been in the making for a while. | I think we need to leave the entire park as is with no changes. | ||
| 759 | 11:33 am PST, Mar 9 | Julia Dennis | 37 | North Charleston | South Carolina | Yes!! | ||
| 758 | 10:07 am PST, Mar 9 | Mr. | Darryl Wally | 0 | Pittsboro | North Carolina | ||
| 757 | 8:14 am PST, Mar 9 | Penny Wilcox | 0 | Asheville | North Carolina | |||
| 756 | 7:05 pm PST, Mar 8 | Mr. | Peter F. Hartwick | 0 | Candler | North Carolina | Reading the SOS website was the first confirmed information that the city was planning to move ahead with this ill-advised development | Yes. |
| 755 | 3:30 pm PST, Mar 7 | Anonymous | 36 | Asheville | North Carolina | |||
| 754 | 5:18 am PST, Mar 7 | Amanda Golden | 30 | Conroe | Texas | |||
| 753 | 9:23 pm PST, Mar 5 | Anonymous | 42 | North Carolina | ||||
| 752 | 3:39 pm PST, Mar 2 | Ms. | H.Marie Ostrander | 59 | Fairview | North Carolina | I have just become aware of this plan by reading this site. | I definitely think this park should be protected from the ravages of uncontrolled growth this area has been subjected to. I moved here 12 years ago and have become very saddened to witness the uncontrolled pot marking of our beautiful mountains by appartment complexes and homes for the well to do. If this isn't stopped I can forsee a significant impact on the tourism industry that this area relies on for a large part of it's annual profits. |
| 751 | 10:01 am PST, Mar 2 | Mr. | Anonymous | 56 | Candler | North Carolina |
Richmond Hill Woods City Park
Richmond Hill Park is the City of Asheville, NC's largest wooded city park. At 183 acres this park is unique and irreplaceable. It connects the French Broad River and adjoining wetland complex with the drier woods of the uplands. Its strength is its size as this park caters to a wide variety of outdoor activities such as mountain biking, hiking, jogging, dog walking, bird watching, and just seeking serenity. The park is wooded and very hill, and current city plans are to level a large portion (over 24 acres) for a ball field complex including 5 fields, parking lot, and concessions building. The main entrance for the ball field complex will be through the quiet neighborhood of Richmond Hill.
Visit Richmond Hill Woods Blog http://richmondhillwoods.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Join the vision that Ashville needs to save the unique hilly wooded park for both recreation and wildlife. Oppose ball field construction and support alternative designs that work with the landscape and scenery.
Help protect the environment and our neighborhood.
Please Help SAVE this amazing, unique and wonderful wooded city park.
Visit Richmond Hill Woods Blog http://richmondhillwoods.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Join the vision that Ashville needs to save the unique hilly wooded park for both recreation and wildlife. Oppose ball field construction and support alternative designs that work with the landscape and scenery.
Help protect the environment and our neighborhood.
Please Help SAVE this amazing, unique and wonderful wooded city park.
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