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Jacksonville by Neighborhood => Downtown => Topic started by: ssky on June 15, 2013, 07:55:41 PM

Title: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: ssky on June 15, 2013, 07:55:41 PM
Welcome to Stalag 13! This is very inspirational.
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: Charles Hunter on June 15, 2013, 08:14:59 PM
Huh?  What fence?
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: ssky on June 15, 2013, 10:20:57 PM
Quote from: Charles Hunter on June 15, 2013, 08:14:59 PM
Huh?  What fence?
The charming new accoutrement to our park. Nothing shouts, "Welcome!" quite as much as a chain link fence. I know I would just love to enter those gates. Not without police escort of course.
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: JayBird on June 15, 2013, 10:24:44 PM
Seriously? They fenced in the entire block? What is wrong with the people who make these decisions? Contrary to what certain poets believe, good fences do not make good neighbors.
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: Ernest Street on June 16, 2013, 12:17:23 AM
Is it Electrified ?..How is entry enforced?.with gate keeper guards?
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: Noone on June 16, 2013, 04:31:04 AM
ssky, where did you get the idea or the rumor of a fence? Next DIA Board meeting anyone can ask about this.
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: JayBird on June 16, 2013, 05:53:50 AM
Quote from: Ernest Street on June 16, 2013, 12:17:23 AM
Is it Electrified ?..How is entry enforced?.with gate keeper guards?

I think being Jacksonville we deserve Storm Troopers.
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: JayBird on June 16, 2013, 05:55:42 AM
Quote from: Noone on June 16, 2013, 04:31:04 AM
ssky, where did you get the idea or the rumor of a fence? Next DIA Board meeting anyone can ask about this.


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Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: ronchamblin on June 16, 2013, 08:19:27 AM
Just walked over to look at it.  It's in front of the Dalton Agency, black, the chain link type, about six feet high, closing in about 1K sq. ft., without barbed wire at the top. There is one gate, currently unlocked.  Installed by Newsom Fence.

I suspect it has at least two functions; one is to isolate and protect the several utility boxes within, such as small transformers perhaps, junction boxes, perhaps plumbing junctions, even some kind of fan.. . perhaps an a/c unit for possible underground utilities. The other function is perhaps to prevent a fleeing or sleeping person to easily hide behind the various boxes and shrubs.

Looks reasonably attractive.

Does is make sense?  Well .... Any fence in an environment such as a park seems to be somewhat of a negative, given the nature of a park.  However, given that there are utilities above ground in the park, and given the necessity to provide safety, and avoid providing a hiding place for the fugitive types, it seems to be a reasonably placed fence...... my opinion.

 

Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: KuroiKetsunoHana on June 17, 2013, 03:35:28 PM
i'm very confused.  i was just there this morning, and the only fence i saw was the one blocking off part ov the skyway station while they bang on the columns.
Title: Re: Fence around Hemming Park/Plaza
Post by: Noone on June 17, 2013, 04:35:47 PM
Drove by today and saw the fence. Not a deal breaker but how much did it cost? Just curious with all the pending activity with tree removal andpotential table and chair removal the actual process that resulted in this action. Was this DVI? Or DIA?