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last field gone
Once they got all their public hearings done, they didn't waste any time. What used to be the last field of native prairie where I grew up, is now a big pile of bare dirt. The field of yucca and pear cactus, with their huge, synchronized yellow blossoms, is gone.
They've even got the goal posts up on the football field, and the diamond laid out on the baseball field.
Yes, it's still a nice place to walk, as urban places go. And will probably be even nicer when they get all their sod in.
But I suspect this redtail
will have to find some other place to hunt in the winter.
Was a little confused by their master plan, though.
I mean, why put almost all the parking at one end? Making baseball fans and parents trek past or across the the football field to their games. Me, I would have put the parking in the middle, and the football field on the left.
Oh, and I got a little lesson in speaking urbanese. The plan shows several "water treatment facilities".
Now, we walked past two of these. They're simply low places where water running off the fields is collected into small ponds, before it overflows down the culvert into the massive drainage ditch. What we kids grew up calling "the spillway".
So, here those are called "water treatment facilities".
Back home, we call them "holding ponds". Probably cost less that way.