Politics & Government
Santa Monica's Park Naming Fail
Can you come up with names more bizarre than these suggestions: "Water World Park," "Planetarium of Eden," "Peace Love?"
Here Santa Monica goes again, feeding the stereotype that its residents are a bunch of hippies living in the "People's Republic."
Rainbow Park, Peace Love, Santa Monica Garden of Eden Center and Dreamweaver Park are among the slew of name suggestions City Hall has received for a new 6-acre park under construction between Main Street and Ocean Avenue, just south of the 10 freeway.
After which is temporarily called Palisades Garden Walk, it asked residents for their input.
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That apparently didn't help, because now city staffers are asking the council to just stick with Palisades Garden Walk.
Maybe it's because so many of the suggestions were just bizarre: Planetarium of Eden, Spaceship Adventure Park, Water World Park, for example.
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The Least Classy award goes to: The New Bum Park.
The City Council will vote on a new name Tuesday night.
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