[Neighbors] Standards of care for 'Greens'/Parks

Thu Jun 2 15:08:29 MDT 2016

Where is this "Hermosa Green"?
With all this discussion, I'd like to just see it :)

Karen

On Jun 2, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Susan Michie via Neighbors_nobhill-nm wrote:

> A couple of years ago the city moved the care of the medians (any public area that is not designated as a park) to Solid Waste Management. The reason being that Solid Waste has better funding (due to our monthly utility bills) than Parks and Rec which is sorely underfunded and understaffed.  Under Solid Waste the KAB program (Keep Albuquerque Beautiful) community members can adopt-a-median to maintain and plant within certain guidelines. It does seem, however, that once a median is adopted, the city is completely hands-off. 
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> I am not familiar with the Hermosa Green situation but if it is being planted by city officials, my guess is that it is under the care of Parks and Rec - maybe it is still considered to be a park?  
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> Susan
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> From: De La Luz via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com>
> To: Sherry Barrett <sherrybarrett at me.com> 
> Cc: Heather Gordon <heatherckgordon at gmail.com>; neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 9:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Neighbors] Standards of care for 'Greens'/Parks
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> Adding decomposed granite to a flowered garden isn't such a good idea. The granite gets mixed in with the soil and eventually nothing will grow.
> 
> A posse ad esse.
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> On May 19, 2016, at 8:25 PM, Sherry Barrett via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
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> > I don’t have answers to your questions on who is responsible for the maintenance, but I do strongly recommend agains the use of landscape cloth.  Look around the neighborhood and you will find ample examples of how it eventually breaks down and comes up.  Instead of using this cloth or plastic (which is worse), put down 2 inches of decomposed granite (also known as fines or 1/4 in minus).  It will keep weeds from coming up from the bottom.  Regardless of what you use, you will have some weeds that are able to germinate on top of rocks.  But, they are easy to pull from the decomposed granite.
> > 
> > 
> >> On May 19, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Heather Gordon via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
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> >> Good morning everyone,
> >> I had a question regarding the standards of care for the city 'greens', those swaths of medians termed greens rather than parks, but seem to be under ABQ Dept of Parks care. On today's morning walk I noted that the city park division was again at Hermosa Green (at the junction of Laurel Dr and Parkland Cir SE), installing pansies and birds of paradise, in very careful ordered lines. From my observation over the last few years, at least three times a year they put in new flowers; this spring they already planted and removed pansies and oriental poppies. Usually they'll do one more installation in September, and remove it the week after Balloon Fiesta.
> >> On my same walk today I noticed them weed-whacking the flowers in the Carlisle median; usually they'll just blast through them, killing some of the plants in the process. And then of course we are familiar with the Amherst green, which is cared for by the considerate neighbors rather than the city. From what I understand, there has been an issue getting the city to put down landscape cloth and rock on the Amherst green.
> >> Is Hermosa Green 'sponsored' somehow? Does it have anything to do with the neighborhood association? The workers there this morning were in city trucks, so it didn't appear to be volunteer effort. There seems to be a disparity of care between the three examples I just mentioned, and I wondered what could account for the difference, and of course how to get some of the same attention applied to Amherst.
> >> Thanks, Heather 
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