[Elfsea] Pressing topic: New Park for Practices

[Timothy Rayburn]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Tessa Nieto <eleanor_cleavely at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Date:  Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:12:09 -0800 (PST)

>We're talking about attracting a "demographic," right?
>The Trinity Park area attracts visitors and residents
>on the weekends like you wouldn't believe. There are
>numerous bathroom facilities and it is highly
>wheelchair accessible.

Recruiting is part, but not all, of the reason to move fighter practice.  While it must be considered, we must also consider where the community we are serving is truly located.  The hard facts are that most, I'd wager of 80%, of those that fight at Elfsea fighter practices are located between 35W and 360 in the east-west, and within a short drive if 20 and 183/820 north-south (there are many that live just north or south of that north-south window, but they would head to either 183/820 or 20 to head anywhere).  The map center of such a population would be at about 820 & 30, as has been discussed before.

The new fighter practice location should first and foremost not decrease the number of people attending fighter practice at the current time who are already part of the organization.  Secondarily to that is should do a great many things, including help recruiting, but also have better facilities, good lighting, allow archery, have water available, etc.

A location such as Trinity Park may be centrally located to our zip codes, but not to the attending populace.  And it is the attending populace who gets first priority, and the improvements desired as second priority.

I understand that our populace is likely centered mostly on that area because Randall Mill Park is also nearly exactly in the center of that area, and that there is likely a cause-and-effect relationship.  Even if that is a causal relationship, it doesn't mean we don't have to consider the existing populace first.

>
>It would also be more convenient for people in the
>western parts of the barony to make it to Trinity than
>driving all the way to Sublett or even to Veteran's
>Park (which is less than 1/4 mile from my apartment).
>Everyone raised cane about centrality and now we're
>talking about moving it further east?
>

Actually I believe that the current 'front runner', at least to me, is the Bedford Boys Ranch.  It moves fighter practice to the west, and deal with many concerns, including allowing archery.  Vetrans and the park off Sublett have been thrown out as ideas, but I'd agree with you that they also do not serve the existing attendees very well.

I would also again like to voice the opinion that while Fort Worth has been doing a great deal to improve Trinity Park, it has not had an effect on the neighborhood yet, and I would not feel comfortable being in said neighborhood after dark.

>Let's keep with the centrality idea and look for a
>park in Fort Worth.


I agree with centrally located, but let's centralize on the Barony's population, not it's zip codes.


Timothy