Approval of the city council’s “Healthier Together Aquatics Center” should be on the ballot for a city-wide vote in November.
The center, which hypes one …
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Approval of the city council’s “Healthier Together Aquatics Center” should be on the ballot for a city-wide vote in November.
The center, which hypes one sport—swimming—over other popular, healthy, and inexpensive sports, would cost us increased taxes or debt.
The feedback meetings and little surveys are scarcely representative of community opinion on such an expensive issue.
Why not give a boost to different sports in the council’s “healthier together” push?
Bicycles, electric and nonelectric, could use bike lanes on 12th Street from Safeway to Sheridan, on Cherry Street from F Street to the Fort, on Discovery from Sheridan to Mill Street. Or joggers, as well as bikers, will be safer if the council fixes every pothole in town.
Why not put the new pool in the space now used by the old pool? Update the plumbing and décor. Make the change rooms modesty-aware with little curtained cubicles. Increase parking by taking the small-dog section of the dog-run.
Sylvia Bowman
PORT TOWNSEND
