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After last Tuesday night’s meeting of the to address the City of Everett’s recently announced demolition plans for the Clark Park gazebo, 成人X站 Newsradio reached out to City of Everett spokesperson Simone Tarver early Wednesday to request an interview with and ask if Franklin would be willing to accept the solution that was proposed at the meeting.

As 成人X站 Newsradio reported Wednesday, key city and neighborhood stakeholders appear to believe building a new off-leash dog area first without demolishing the historic gazebo is a smart way to potentially address long-standing issues at Clark Park, and to hopefully preserve a rare and beloved piece of the city’s early history. The theory is that the dog park alone will “activate” the park, draw more regular daily visitors, and reduced unwanted activities there 鈥� and that it鈥檚 at least giving this theory a try before taking the irreversible step of demolishing the historic gazebo.

Previous coverage: Will Everett mayor accept compromise to save Clark Park gazebo?

On Wednesday afternoon, spokesperson Simone Tarver responded by email to 成人X站 Newsradio’s follow-up questions about the meeting and regarding the request to interview Mayor Franklin.

“We anticipate having more to share on this soon that will likely answer the questions you note below,” Tarver wrote just before 1 p.m. Wednesday. “I’d need to follow up on the interview request.”

Everett spokesperson responds

On Friday afternoon, having not yet heard back from Tarver, 成人X站 Newsradio reached out again. Tarver sent a long email late Friday that repeated many of the talking points she had shared earlier, and dodged key questions 鈥� about the possible compromise, and also about why the Everett Historical Commission members were given documents about Clark Park only seconds before the meeting began rather than the customary several days in advance.

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In her email, Tarver dodged 成人X站 Newsradio’s direct question about whether Mayor Franklin is willing to accept the compromise that would allow for building of the dog park and for preservation of the gazebo. Tarver also did not respond to requests for an interview with Mayor Franklin.

Tarver鈥檚 full email said the following:

As mentioned at the meeting, the Parks team will be working on additional visuals for the dog park, including options to incorporate stylistic aspects of the gazebo into the dog park design. The next step is bringing those options to the March historical commission meeting and getting their feedback on them.

And regarding outreach ahead of the meeting, the agenda and materials were shared on their webpage, as is the standard practice.

In addition, this has been an ongoing topic of conversation for decades and there have been numerous attempts over the years to reactivate the park 鈥� both with the gazebo fenced and with it unfenced. Basically, anytime it鈥檚 unfenced, illegal and otherwise undesired and unwelcoming conduct returns and increases.

The city is not in any way under the impression that the removal of one gazebo is going to solve homelessness, the drug crisis or the behavioral health crisis. Those are all very real challenges in Everett and in communities throughout our region. We are addressing those challenges, doing things like partnering to increase support and services for those who are struggling, increasing shelter options, expanding our embedded social worker team, and advocating for more resources. We鈥檙e also doing what we can to mitigate the resulting impacts on the community 鈥� because there are serious impacts to public safety.

But this neighborhood park is meant to be a space where all are welcome, and the fact is 鈥� it鈥檚 currently not. Investing in reactivating that space, by adding a dog park, will help make the park more welcoming for the community.

And lastly 鈥� I鈥檒l add that I live in Everett and I鈥檝e lived here my entire life. I used to live in the Bayside Neighborhood and I went to the high school up the street. The gazebo has been an attractive nuisance my entire life. My mom grew up across from Clark Park and has baby pictures sitting there with her dad, enjoying a picnic. That is not the reality of today and it hasn鈥檛 been for a long time. It鈥檚 unfortunate but it鈥檚 the truth.

Should we have any further updates, I will let you know.

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