[Summit] Signs and fountains

[Amanda Woodward]

John
What is the rationale behind not turning on the fountain?
Amanda


----- Original Message ----
From: John Bazik <jsb at cs.brown.edu>
To: Jonathan Howard <jon at ceffect.com>
Cc: "Summit at sna.providence.ri.us" <Summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 9:28:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Summit] Signs and fountains

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:03:37PM -0500, Jonathan Howard wrote:
> One critical issue looms. The goal of filling the fountain with dirt and 
> making it into a planter got incorporated into the draft   neighborhood 
> "plan" (more of a list, really) coming out of the neighborhood charette 
> held in September. I wasn't at that session, so I don't know how that 
> happened, but the Parks Dept. has long claimed that restoring the 
> fountain is either impossible or impossibly expensive. I imagine they 
> see this as a cheap way to resolve the problem of a waterless fountain. 
> The plan is still a "draft" so we can lobby the Director of the Parks 
> Dept, Alix Ogden. I'll also ask the Dept. of Planning to ensure that 
> alternatives to the planter idea are offered. We may have this on the 
> agenda for our Jan. 21 meeting and will let you know.

I was there.  I believe I said that restoring the fountain to working
order was preferred by the neighborhood, but that plantings are preferable
to nothing.  I've been told repeatedly, and in no uncertain terms, that
the fountain will not be turned on again.  If I remember, the notion of
having plantings hinges on neighborhood participation to maintain them,
so it won't happen without our input.

However, I'll happily support an effort to get the water flowing again.

John

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