Comments on: Horseshoe Farm Park http://www.markturner.net/2006/02/25/horseshoe-farm-park/ Perspectives from a Raleigh geek Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mark Turner http://www.markturner.net/2006/02/25/horseshoe-farm-park/#comment-1807 Mark Turner Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1807 Welcome to my site! I appreciate you checking in. You may of course put links to my posts on your website (and thanks for asking). The morning we visited the park we had it all to ourselves. It was almost magical! I know that won't always be the case, but the quiet beauty really spoke to us. It certainly is a special place. Thanks for keeping your fellow citizens aware of this important resource and the work being done to make it better. Mark Welcome to my site! I appreciate you checking in. You may of course put links to my posts on your website (and thanks for asking).

The morning we visited the park we had it all to ourselves. It was almost magical! I know that won’t always be the case, but the quiet beauty really spoke to us. It certainly is a special place.

Thanks for keeping your fellow citizens aware of this important resource and the work being done to make it better.

Mark

]]> By: Peanut Gallery http://www.markturner.net/2006/02/25/horseshoe-farm-park/#comment-1818 Peanut Gallery Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1818 Dear Mark and Kelly, Thanks for your blogs about Horseshoe Farm Park! It's good to know that people are going out to the park and experiencing it for themselves, and enjoying what a special place it is. Friends of Horseshoe Farm is working to make sure this spectacular land is turned into a simple and very unique and special park that honors and celebrates the Neuse River, the wildlife there --- like the native wild turkey, the landscape, nature in general, cultural history and the arts. There are strong forces within City Government that are also working hard to try to develop the park for high intensity active recreation purposes (gymnasium, lighted tennis courts complex, ball fields, and lighted dog park). While we appreciate the need for active recreation, we know that there is an abundance of other undeveloped park land in NE Raleigh that is more appropriate for active recreation. We hope Horseshoe Farm will be allowed to become a different, simpler kind of park, where people can go to have a high quality nature experience unlike anywhere else. As you can probably tell from the newspaper articles, we will need all the help we can get to be successful in our efforts to preserve this beautiful place. We hope you will go to our website, www.horseshoefarm.org, and sign in so we can send you email updates and action alerts. As the park master plan moves forward, we will need citizens - especially from NE Raleigh - to come to the Parks Board and City Council to let them know you care about this park and what happens to it. We would also appreciate the opportunity to create a link on our website to your two blog articles on the park. Of course, we wouldn't do this without your permission, so let us know if we can do it. Thanks again, and we hope you will continue to tell your friends and neighbors about Horseshoe Farm so they can enjoy it too! Friends of Horseshoe Farm P.S. The next Horseshoe Farm Master Planning Committee meeting is tentatively scheduled for March 22nd. At this meeting, the Draft Plan will likely be finalized. There will be an opportunity to comment on the Draft Plan when it is forwarded to the Parks Board, probably in April. Dear Mark and Kelly,
Thanks for your blogs about Horseshoe Farm Park! It’s good to know that people are going out to the park and experiencing it for themselves, and enjoying what a special
place it is.

Friends of Horseshoe Farm is working to make sure this spectacular land is turned into a simple and very unique and special park that honors and celebrates the Neuse River, the wildlife there — like the native wild turkey, the landscape, nature in general, cultural history and the arts.

There are strong forces within City Government that are also working hard to try to develop the park for high intensity active recreation purposes (gymnasium, lighted tennis courts complex, ball fields, and lighted dog park). While we appreciate the need for active recreation, we know that there is an abundance of other undeveloped park land in NE Raleigh that is more appropriate for active recreation. We hope Horseshoe Farm will be allowed to become a different, simpler kind of park, where people can go to have a high quality nature experience unlike anywhere else.

As you can probably tell from the newspaper articles, we will need all the help we can get to be successful in our efforts to preserve this beautiful place. We hope you will go to our website, http://www.horseshoefarm.org, and sign in so we can send you email updates and action alerts. As the park master plan moves forward, we will need citizens - especially from NE Raleigh - to come to the Parks Board and City Council to let them know you care about this park and what happens to it.

We would also appreciate the opportunity to create a link on our website to your two blog articles on the park. Of course, we wouldn’t do this without your permission, so let us know if we can do it.

Thanks again, and we hope you will continue to tell your friends and neighbors about Horseshoe Farm so they can enjoy it too!

Friends of Horseshoe Farm

P.S. The next Horseshoe Farm Master Planning Committee meeting is tentatively scheduled for March 22nd. At this meeting, the Draft Plan will likely be finalized. There will be an opportunity to comment on the Draft Plan when it is forwarded to the Parks Board, probably in April.

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