In the comments section of our post about Dolores Park flunking playground school, reader Laurie says:
To be fair, A-grade Mission Playground, an excellent place that we adore, can be rough around the edges. In the last week there’s been parents picking up broken glass from the asphalt walkway within the fenced-in children’s playground. And within the fenced-in Valencia Street hardscape, small kids played with broken bottles, watching them shatter to smithereens.
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So, kids will be kids? Colorful neighborhoods will be colorful neighborhoods?
Infographic by Mission Local.
Rough around the edges indeed. Always with a fresh coat of human feces by the entrance to the pool, frequently with some dude sleeping in the doorway and at times with some other transient dude passed out with a forty in his hand on the lawn. I can barely take my dog there.
Talked to one of the maintenance guys in the playground a few weeks ago. Said people like to scale the fence and drink in there, so they have to clean up a lot of bottles.
Hell, it is next to the loser drunk dude mini-park so I wouldn’t call that a major surprise. Still. Nice playground.
Sometimes I see old dudes drinking out of paper bags at the 23rd and Treat playground not 5 feet from the little kids. That park is always busy with kids from all walks of life, it’s like a Sesame Street utopia, it would be a shame for it to go downhill. If I was a parent I’d knock that drink right out of their hands. Applauds to the maintenance guys, they keep that park clean despite that element.
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