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Community Input Survey Cricket Field Location Options at Ken Mercer Sports Park 42 Adult cricket preferably 7/7/2022 9:13 PM 43 This is the best option 7/7/2022 9:01 PM 44 This is perfect location to have a cricket pitch 717/2022 5:20 PM 45 Amazingly private location for a new sport and not diluting other games for audiences. 7/7/2022 4:48 PM 46 This is a GREAT location for cricket pitch as there is no other baseball game pitch exist in this 7/7/2022 3:39 PM part of Ken Mercer park. 47 When I met with Mark Spiller this is the location I said worked best at the sports park. You can 7/5/2022 11:29 PM still keep the football fields in tact and have the pitch between them. I was on the football board a few years ago and we hardly used the back to fields. These two fields would be a place of their own with little to no contact. They could clean up the snack bar and use that as well. No sure why upper Bernal is not in the discussion though. The field is plenty big, rarely used and had litghts which would extend their hours of use during the fall and winter months. 48 1 walk the sports park several times a week and the back fields seem the least utilized. I think 7/5/2022 9:48 PM they would have more options 49 Make use of existing field and make it multi use, including to use for cricket instead of 7/4/2022 6:46 PM converting a field solely for the purpose of cricket at tax payer expense. 50 This is the least favorable option. It is the closest to homes, it is the closest to the path on 7/3/2022 1:11 PM three sides, and it is only youth play and it will generate the most amount of noise and interaction between players and the neighbors (some of whom were opposed before the idea even got off the drawing board). As a resident who back to this area, we fully support additional fields and play and disagree with neighbors who claim they have been adversely affected by the cricket games to date. The claims of noise and early morning play from the cricket players, while we hear it, have not affected us at all. With cricket thus far there are few or no spectators, the players are respectful, although sometimes loudly cheer and yell in excitement (duh, its a sports park!) and the sound is no different than the soccer, football and baseball/softball that is played throughout the year early in the day. In fact, I submit that it is less impactful because there aren'tthe obnoxious parents and screaming/hollering/foul language that that accompanies what seems like every play during football, and some of the other sports being played. The noise from the football is exceptionally worse. The sirens, PA and sound systems are very annoying, the sound goes on all day starting in the early morning (just as early as those darn cricket players!) and is heard throughout the entire neighborhood, not just the immediate neighbors. Additionally, the amount of trash and debris left behind by the football users is more than any other sport that uses the field. In fact, the other sports do a fine job of cleaning and stacking the trash, where often the football folks often do not. So the argument of noise and trash as a reason not to install cricket because of the noise is hogwash; it's already noisy at times and we are blessed to live against a sportspark. Get over it already! It is poor money management to build a field (option #3) that is only used 3 months when there are two other better options that triple the amount of play, and do not require safety netting. This is more costly, unsightly, could encourage excessive playlabuse and creates long term maintenance and improvements requirements thus further increasing the cost. This option is likely to create the most amount of conflict between players and residents. This is only going to create public relations issues and unnecessary/avoidable workload for the parks department and the police department who will have to find ways to mitigate the issues. Why create these problems for city staff and the players when other options are better. 51 No because if this location is chosen it should be not only for youth 7/2/2022 9:57 PM 52 Leave for football and rugby. 7/212022 4:06 PM 53 1 think this is the worst option for the speakers park as a whole 7/2/2022 4:06 PM 54 See prior comments 7/2/2022 10:11 AM 55 Too close to the homes and walkways 712/2022 9;54 AM 56 This area currently seems underutilized 613012022 6:59 PM 57 This is a really bad and unsafe choice. The separation between the two existing fields is 16 6/3012022 12:67 PM feet. Putting a 10 foot wide concrete pitch between the two fields will create a dangerous hazard for soccer players, rugby players and football players. These players routinely end up on the ground off the field of play due to collisions. tackles, or just running into one another. 21/37