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Bug Dout wrote:

writes:

Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001
percent of the population to use ??

Why should a city have a park? Not everyone will use it. Likewise for
quite a number of city features.

Not everything of worth is measured by the strict economic utility of
it.

Yes -- Just look at all that valuable property going to waste as parks,
when it could be sold to developers who would build new Century Cities
on the land!