Where is Charlottesvilles Central Park?
When it comes to the past five years of master planning McIntire Park, could it be a case of the old adage “too many chefs in the kitchen”? With various special interests groups stepping forward to take a piece of the pie, the Park has been divvied up to provide resources for the community– albeit, only for specific niches in the community. Some people don’t like to play softball and baseball. Some people are uninterested in competitive-length swimming pools, such as the indoor one the YMCA hopes to offer. And, as is painfully obvious to the golf community, some people don’t like to golf. Yet while Flamini and her botanical garden proposal aim to open up the park to a wider community, will such a democratic vision succeed? Visitors to Richmond’s Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden must pay either an entrance fee ($6-10) or a membership fee of $85 per family– a not inconsequential sum in these economically challenging times. Ginter’s capital campaign, which ran through the ’80s and was comp
