The Laconia Daily Sun, September 18, 2012

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E E R F TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

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LACONIA — The Laconia Parks and Recreation Commission last night accepted a new concept plan for Wyatt Park which would see the park’s two basketball courts remain in their current location and create a crushed stone walkway around the fenced-in perimeter of the park. The plan, developed by residents of the Wyatt Park neighborhood, was presented to the commission by Heidi Bright, spokes-

person for the Wyatt Park group, who said that as part of the process of developing the plan, abutters to the project were surveyed and that they favored the new concept by a 22-1 vote. Bright’s plan was developed after residents of the area and Ward 4 Councilor Brenda Baer had expressed dissatisfaction with a plan submitted in July by by Kevin Dunleavy, the city’s Parks and Facilities director, which called for a single basketaball court next to Garfield Street.

Dunleavy’s plan had been drawn up at the request of the commission, which felt at that time the consensus was that the neighbors in the Center Street area wanted them moved or even taken out altogether. But Bright and others from the area said that the extra police presence over the last several months has made a big difference in the behavior of those using the court and that troublemakers are now staying away from the area. see WYATT PARK page 9

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