After reading our story about how the proposed city budget will affect local parks, our readers took to Facebook to share their thoughts in the comments section.
“This is going to be so good for our town, I’m excited we won’t have to drive to another town anymore lol.” — Meagen Leiby
“Awesome!!! I suggest taking ideas from 2 specific parks in Lakeland which are free and awesome! Barnett family park and common grounds park. Both so full of fun, interactive things for the kids to do and the family park has a free splash pad for kids. Plant City is in dire need of something fun, interactive and free like a splash pad for kids.” — Kelsey Spell
“Finally! I grew up in Seminole where we had 2 parks in walking distance to our house that were updated about every 5 years and full of the newest playground stuff and when we moved to Plant City I was so shocked to see the poor conditions and lack of playground parks.” — Lindsey Hanson
“Are we going to repaint and repair the current parks? Gilchrist play equipment needs repainting and repairs. Over at Mike Sansone there is an entire playground that needs to be torn down and rebuilt. It’s rusty, missing steps, broken tunnel, etc.” — Bryan Matter
“Plant city needs a disc golf course. The only decent one is at Limona Park in Brandon and it’s packed every weekend.” — Jarad Bean
“Thank goodness.. that was a huge let down at the parks or lack thereof here… we go to Lakeland for the parks.” — Candice Phillips LeClerc
“Please, please leave Brewer Park alone now. It’s so small, only a half mile that was meant to be a natural, pretty little walking trail but is now crammed full of exercise equipment. Activity parks are great where size supports it, but not little Brewer, please… Visited Ellis Methvin park for the first time (Tuesday). Been here 16 years and never knew there was a pond and walking trail. Much bigger than Brewer Park now. Much nicer. Clean. No crowd. It will be my daily walking place now that Brewer is messed up and crowded. All in all, PC does great work on other parks.” — Meg Scott
“Great idea for the city, the kids will love it.” — Anthony Thomas
