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Monday, April 13, 2009
Hello fellow volleyball enthusiasts, Below is a petition I authored three months ago on behalf of Mid-City Volleyball Group with the intent to submit it to the City Planning Commission on 1/20/09. The City Planning Commission refused to accept a printout of the petition on January 20, but I was advised to keep the petition open and re-submit it to the firm that will be hired to design and construct the Lafitte greenway. The firm was expected to be selected in April, so it's time to push again for more signatures. If you have not already done so, please go http://www.PetitionOnline.com/VballLaf/petition.html to support the inclusion of sand volleyball courts in the Lafitte Corridor Revitalization Plan.
Yours truly, Peter Hickman
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Dear Ms. Rodriguez (executive director of the City Planning Commission), Mid-City Volleyball Group is a collection of volleyball players dedicated to the ideal of creating a beach volleyball venue in the Mid-City area of New Orleans. We are an eclectic group of people with professional backgrounds ranging from business to engineering, but we are united in our passion to play and promote outdoor volleyball. Mid-City Volleyball Group proposes that the city of New Orleans include an outdoor volleyball recreational area along the Lafitte Corridor Greenway preferably at the corridor's midpoint near Bayou St. John. A Mid-City beach volleyball venue will enhance our area by providing a fun place to be active and socialize, drawing a diverse group of people with similar interests and provide a previously unavailable opportunity for our youth to participate in a challenging and rewarding team sport. It could be a focal point of activity and with proper lighting could provide a safe destination for nighttime and weekend recreation. Although there are other suitable sites for a volleyball venue, the midpoint of the path would be well situated to attract people from either end of the corridor, it would be situated at the intersection of another bicycle path that connects the Lakefront to Uptown, and it would be situated near the natural beauty and serenity of Bayou St. John. For the sake of making the Lafitte Corridor a community-friendly recreational greenway, we implore the City Planning Commission to incorporate sand volleyball courts into the Lafitte Corridor Revitalization Plan. Thank you, Peter J. Hickman Chair of the Mid-City Volleyball committee of the MotherShip Foundation 131 Sherwood Forest Drive New Orleans, LA 70119-3716 cell: (504)427-1207 |
