Opinion - in Our View: Parks: Pay to Play; Groundbreaking Ballot Proposal Gives Suburbanites Yea-or-Nay Power

The Columbian › March 23, 2004

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It's potentially a groundbreaking, pay-to-play move to establish and permanently maintain 35 parks in the populous suburbs outside of Vancouver.

Some 100,000 people living in the arc from Hazel Dell and Felida on the west around through Minnehaha and Orchards to Fisher Basin on the east hold the power. They will get the chance to create a district and tax themselves so these parks can be developed and maintained in their midst.

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Opinion - in Our View: Parks: Pay to Play; Groundbreaking Ballot Proposal Gives Suburbanites Yea-or-Nay Power

Or, they can say no, it's not worth it to them, and continue doing without or traveling to parks farther from their homes....

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