{"id":18563,"date":"2012-10-25T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/support-our-parks-streets-vote-yes-on-prop-1\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:55:35","slug":"support-our-parks-streets-vote-yes-on-prop-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/support-our-parks-streets-vote-yes-on-prop-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Support our parks, streets, vote yes on Prop 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Proposition 1 is a reasonable, limited approach to a serious problem in our city. If voters approve, parks and streets will be repaired; if they oppose, there will be real impacts, including fewer fields to play on and streets with reduced lanes or speeds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Over the years, Kent has developed an excellent parks system. People of all ages use the parks and parks programs as a part of their daily lives. This reality greatly enhances our quality of life. Unfortunately, the loss of revenue during the recession has placed the system at risk.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Opponents of the levy acknowledge the needs for street and park repairs but feel that the business community isn&#8217;t contributing its fair share to road maintenance. The City Council has now passed a new B&amp;O tax to ensure that businesses will pay their fair share of the future maintenance needs of local roads. The only argument made by levy opponents is no longer valid.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Higher property values and lower crime rates are positively related to having good parks and streets in our community. Please join me in voting yes on Proposition 1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Judy Woods<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposition 1 is a reasonable, limited approach to a serious problem in our city. If voters approve, parks and streets will be repaired; if they oppose, there will be real impacts, including fewer fields to play on and streets with reduced lanes or speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}