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Skycrest Neighbors

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Skycrest Neighbors: Open the Bathrooms, Have More Events at Crest Lake Park

About 50 residents came to talk about safety and improvements for Crest Lake Park at the Skycrest Neighbors Association meeting Tuesday.

About 50 residents came to talk about safety and improvements for Crest Lake Park at the Skycrest Neighbors Association meeting Tuesday. Residents challenged themselves to come up with 30 days of events to have in Crest Lake Park as a way to invite people back to the public space. But opening the bathrooms and getting better lighting for the park dominated the more than an hour-and-a-half long neighbors meeting.  JoAnna Siskin, president of the Skycrest Neighbors Association, said the meetings normally do not have so many participants or go so long. But the meetings usually don't have four members of Clearwater Police, including Chief Anthony Holloway, in attendance. They were there to hear residents' thoughts and answer questions about …

DeElizabethan

3:03 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013

As seniors, my husband and I would love to spend time in the park with nature and watch families having fun. No more, since we are in the neighborhood but many blocks away, even by bicycle, with no bathrooms near by, we tend to go elsewhere. For shame.   more ›

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

How Can Crest Lake Park be Improved?

Residents and neighbors near the Skycrest neighborhood in Clearwater shared their thoughts on how to improve Crest Lake Park.

From spending more time in the park to getting the bathrooms reopened, residents and neighbors near Clearwater's Skycrest neighborhood shared their thoughts on how to improve Crest Lake Park in recent stories. For more of an opportunity to voice your opinion, a Skycrest Neighbors Association meeting to discuss potential programming, events and improvements at Crest Lake Park is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2001 Rainbow Dr. Residents in the Skycrest neighborhood are disturbed and scared since the murder of Jason Paul, who was on his way home from work when he was stabbed to death near the park Jan. 6. The president of the Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition and Paul's grandmother shared their thoughts in …

Ron Townson

3:27 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

Must get rid of the Chronic Vagrants in the park. Must get rid of the Drug Dealing/Using in the park Must open the bathrooms in the park. Must have a more proactive police presence in the park.   more ›

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