A park at the beach? Why, yes!

I have spent the past few months campaigning for Prop K, the gist of which was to turn a road for cars near the Pacific Ocean into a park. Fortunately, the tireless efforts of many, many volunteers proved successful and WE WON. Nationally, election results have been mostly abhorrent. I'm so glad we prevailed here, locally, with this issue as it takes a teeny-tiny bit of the sting out of knowing who'll be occupying the White House come January.

Doing 'visibility' with Snowy D. Plover last Monday. 

Taking a walk on the Great Highway once results showed Prop K would pass.

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I live on the west side of the city very near the ocean. If one looks at a map of the city (found by clicking on the link above) showing a break-down on how folk voted on Prop K, it's clear that a majority of my neighbors in District 4 did not want a park. Or maybe I should say that they did not want the misinformation that they'd been fed on social media about what Prop K was about to come into being. One of the main fibs was that Prop K was some Trojan Horse type ruse meant to usher in large building projects and that our coastline would be marred by a 'Miami skyline'. Never mind that there is no zoning allowed for such a build. I spent a bit of time on NextDoor dipping my toe into the No on K posts and saw that people were very much believing the rather multi-faceted lie about what the passage of Prop K would bring. There seemed to be no way to convince these people that they were falling for bald-faced lies, so I took to reporting posts for spreading Prop K falsehoods. If I were to try and talk to these folk IRL while out canvassing for Prop K, I would either be yelled at or told that I just didn't really know what I was campaigning for and a look of pity would come across their faces. The 'no' votes came from my neighbors, primarily, who seemed to have bought into the boogeyman narrative of skyscrapers popping up in our backyards hook, line and sinker.  The majority of 'yes' votes were from the northern and eastern parts of town, for the most part. I'm thankful that this issue was put to a city-wide vote else we would not have won.

The misinformation campaign brought by the No on K folks and propagated on various social media sites hindered us, but didn't defeat us. We will have our park and it will be a park for all.