They paved paradise, put up a parking lot...NOT!

So here's another reason I love the city I've called home since I was 17 years old (aside from a small detour to New England): Aside from the perfect weather year round, the preponderance of progressive thinkers and, you know, that big body of water that I can see from my building (though not my office), they do stuff like turning parking lots into... parks!

There are two former parking lots undergoing transition to parks currently. One of them is right next door to my building. It used to be our parking lot. There are four large trees in those wooden crate things that they use to move trees, sitting there, waiting for the large mound of dirt next to them to be spread over the surface. I can't wait to sit out there and have lunch!

There's another, larger one about a mile away. It's three blocks long and one block wide. It used to be a parking lot where they had a swap meet on the weekends. It's almost done. You can barely see through the green mesh fence. All the trees are in. I think they just have to pave the parking lot and it'll be done.

Now if they could just turn some of the mini-malls into parks too...

Just to see if it works for everyone...

Boobies!

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