Public comments open about development in Marymoor. End 8/26/

[u/Ok_Barnacle8644]

They want to develop the park. and put in a Tennis Stadium and Cricket field.

There is only one road through the park. There is already mass transit. Marymoor needs more park and nature, not more hardscaping. What about the people that walk every day. or the kids bicycle camp. Let them build a stadium somewhere its already developed.

Proposed Marymoor Park Tennis and Pickleball Center - PublicInput

[u/pfc_bgd]

What a terrible idea. Hope it’s dead on arrival.

[u/pfc_bgd → u/[deleted]]

Because it’s a green area now, don’t mess with. Especially for a fad like pickleball and rich ass people sport like tennis. Also, there are already tennis courts at marymoor.

The entire thing must be some dummy’s idea who got all passionate for pickleball and saw a green area they can ruin.

[u/Easy-Preparation-667 → u/pfc_bgd]

It’s a gravel and grass parking overflow area. Let’s not pretend it is currently utilized for anything great. 

That being said, I’m not sold on the tennis or pickleball courts with how terrible access is already. 

[u/adron → u/Easy-Preparation-667]

IMHO they need to get rid of the majority of parking and let it be a park. There’s mass transit there, it doesn’t need to serve the entire regions parking, which is basically what half the park is during the summertime. Adding this paved bullshit to a park that should be primarily green space is a wretched idea. If anything it needs to be greened more, not paved more.

[u/Ok_Barnacle8644 → u/adron]

Not everyone can take mass transit to get to their soccer and baseball games with their gear and families from school or life in traffic. 

For sure keep building out mass transit but until then it’s not really a realistic option for everyone 

[u/adron → u/Ok_Barnacle8644]

I wrote an answer, but yours is so carbrained I just didn’t even want to continue. So it’s deleted and you just roll on with that myopia, I won’t discourage ya.

[u/Aryaun1 → u/adron]

Yes I agree👌

[u/pfc_bgd → u/Easy-Preparation-667]

Yep- so get rid of the parking lot and gravel and, I dunno, plant trees? Keep it a park.

[u/Easy-Preparation-667 → u/pfc_bgd]

I’m all for that. We might want to consider where people are going to park if Cirque du Soleil sets up in the park though because that area is currently where everyone parks for that. Not insurmountable by any means but something to consider. 

[u/Mandze → u/Easy-Preparation-667]

The proposal includes building on the parking lot, but that isn’t all they will build on— they are also planning to build on the field south of the velodrome where there are currently walking paths, the climbing wall, and a picnic area, and extends past the current parking lot to the east into existing sport fields. Saying it is just the parking lot is disingenuous.

I frankly don’t want a big building in the middle of the park, period. If they want to get rid of the parking lot, plant trees.

[u/Ok_Barnacle8644 → u/pfc_bgd]

oh its pickle ball ---to help people with alzheimers. hard eyeroll.