{"id":5471,"date":"2014-02-05T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T03:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2014-02-05T22:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T03:29:59","slug":"heres-why-one-councillor-voted-against-accessible-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/heres-why-one-councillor-voted-against-accessible-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why one Councillor voted against accessible playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Re: Activist surprised by Diamond Jubilee Park reaction, January 23, 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to read Tyler Barker\u2019s Letter last week, \u201cActivist surprised by Diamond Jubilee Park reaction.\u201d<br \/>\nI would like to thank him for his dedication to solving community accessibility issues that limit respectful and complete participation for everyone.<br \/>\nTyler commented that he \u201cwould like to know why 3 Councillors voted against\u201d making the former Civic Square Park, renamed Queen\u2019s Jubilee Park, our next accessible park.<br \/>\nThe reason is that only eight years ago, $240,000 worth of tax dollars was spent to build this park. Councillors Ballard, Gallo and I thought that it would be completely fiscally irresponsible to spend another $150,000 of your hard earned money to redo this existing park!<br \/>\nWhy wasn\u2019t a piece of undeveloped park land chosen? And why take an enjoyed park away from local residents?<br \/>\nIdeally every playground in Aurora would have accessible features that enabled everyone to play close to home. I believe this would fulfil Mr. Barker\u2019s goal of respectful and fair treatment for all.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCouncillor Wendy Gaertner<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Activist surprised by Diamond Jubilee Park reaction, January 23, 2014) It was interesting to read Tyler Barker\u2019s Letter last week, \u201cActivist surprised by Diamond Jubilee Park reaction.\u201d I would like to thank him for his dedication to solving community accessibility issues that limit respectful and complete participation for everyone. Tyler commented that he \u201cwould [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}