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I was amused by the editorial/fairy tale in The Bakersfield Californian Opinion section on July 24 titled “Park can be a good neighbor.”  Where should I start? After asking the mandatory 10 questions every prospective homeowner should have asked, including, “What’s that big, empty lot across the street going to become?” we were told “a park” by developer representatives. They also stated that they had seen a layout of soccer fields but no one knew what for sure was planned. Any reasonable person expects to be notified of a public hearing when a plan is proposed. Unless the old “shell game” applies! That is, heck with the neighborhood, just do it because we can! Then we’re scolded by an editorial that we have no one to blame but ourselves? For what, not being clairvoyant? We aren’t lied to by the developers, they had no clue baseball diamonds were proposed to be built! Now we are told only that: “The plan...
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