I voted with the city, but the surface parking lot for Fuller Pool (on the north side of Fuller Rd.) should be eliminated also (concurrently) and restored to parkland and/or more soccer fields. Then Fuller pool users and the Fuller Park users need to use transit, bicycles, or the new parking deck in order to gain their respective accesses.

Also, assuming the restoration of that parkland north of Fuller Rd., more of the existing parkland on the south side of Fuller Rd. could be devoted to development. It is under-used currently. Then the revenue from that development should be devoted to parks elsewhere in the city, such as the restoration of Allen Creek (to the extent that that is practical).

Additional development on the transit center side (south side) of Fuller Rd. shoud be used to frame Fuller Park to the north, thereby slowing traffic on Fuller Rd., thus allowing pedestrian access to Fuller Park from the university and the rest of the city. (Think Central Park West). This way Fuller Park gets better utiliiztion and city residents have better access to the Huron River. Also, the new devlopment could be mostly residential which could aleviate traffic (carbon usage??) to and from the hospital daily.

Finally, eliminate the median in Fuller Rd. along this stretch making development of the south side of Fuller Rd. more practical and removing a current psychologiacal barrier to the park for pedestrians.

This is a perfect example of why, while I am a life member of the National Sierra Club, I cannot support the local chapter. If we want to preserve QUALITY open spaces, we must 1) encourage development investment in our already urban and suburban areas, where infrastructure exists, and parking lots can be brought to a higher use, and 2) act strongly to shift our transportation toward supporting enhanced transit, walkability and bikability so we don't continue to expand our roads and growth outward into undeveloped areas of the county.

As an environmentalist, I'm with the City 100% on this.