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.
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.
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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Totally out of scale "viewing platforms" so people can "enter and see the ocean view." Overwhelming landmarked Chez Jay. Representing a waste of $55 million so the Council can provide green space for the Village at SM project it approved without sufficient green space, next to the Village at SM itself overwhelming its site with 300 luxury condos where there were none, and the developer bragging to his peers last July on a City-involved bus trip wooing developers, that they are looking at $1900 a square foot for condos, when their costs are $400-500. The ocean being 200 feet away, this will expose to it so MANY who could not otherwise see the ocean view. All of this--not the stereotype of aging hippies or Communists--might explain many of the suggestions..
So the idea I like the best is Ocean View Park, since that awful cornucopia thing that is a viewpoint for the ocean view overwhelms everything. Might as well have a name that fits that.
Good Luck Finding A Place To Park Park Our Schools Don't Have Any Money But We Have $55 Million This Park Park But simplest and most realistic is definitely New Bum Park.
There is a movement to recognize that criminalizing homelessness is unconstitutional. I hope that succeeds. In the meantime, this Park is too ridiculous and too much a waste of money to name for any native people. It has to be named for some greedy crony who got paid off to spend $55 million in two blocks.
In California they name things for what they destroyed. There are orchards. They tear them out and pit in little box houses and call the subdivision The Orchards. I don't know what the Park should be named. How about The Awakening? Because this Park is the symbol of how we cannot trust any City Council elected with developer money.
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