SFist: Proposition G: Daddy, can we have a pony?

KWillets

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:53:38 -0800

The stables are indeed relevant to the kids at John Muir. Where do you think they get the meat for the school lunches?

brokenlogin

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:57:09 -0800

I wish folks would at least go see the place.. Little late now!

Deborah

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:49:53 -0800

Some interesting reading on Prop G: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4913 http://sweetmelissa.typepad.com/sweet_melissa/2007/11/proposition-g.html

brokenlogin

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:48:41 -0800

Yeah, I'm very wary of privatization too, but the stables are a wreck because of their previous half-assed semiprivate status. Fixing it sooner rather than letting it sit there and rot until some dubiously motivated private entity slithers up and makes an irresistible offer just seems prudent to me. Time will tell.

Cior

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:23:38 -0800

There's nothing better than the inside of a horse for the outside of an inner-city kid. Or something. Really though, horses are great medicine. A similar measure for stables in Oakland (Wildcat Canyon Ranch) passed, so why not here? They've surely got some inner-city kids who are making use of the program. I bet SF has a few, too.

the_absentee

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:58:11 -0800

$750,000? That's what? A couple parking meters downtown over a one-month period? I agree. If the stables were actually re-opened, it'd be one place, besides the Exploratorium, where kids from any school could take a field trip. You'd be amazed at how many kids have never seen a horse in a field, only bums and shopping carts amongst the overgrown grass.

redseca2

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:45:57 -0800

I voted for this because I remember when this facility was in good shape, as recently as the '90's, and you or I or anyone could take horse riding lessons at a dirt cheap city price. I would like something like that to be possible again some day. Riding a horse in the park in the fog sounded really cool.

Christopher Rogers

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:17:26 -0800

If this doesn't pass SFist is so totally running the famous "No, you can't have a pony. Not yours." internet meme picture.

jwb

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:16:41 -0800

You don't remember having to vote at the ballot box to fund the maintenance on the windmill, do you? That's because you didn't! That is just paid out of Wreckin' Parks budget, like every other thing. So again, why should horse housing be accorded special attention, ahead of literally all other park spending? Some of you may remember that when the city got in bed with a public-private partnership to restore Harding Park Golf Course we got fucked in the ass. Beware rich people bearing gifts for parks.

suckafree

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:06:26 -0800

this was the only thing i voted in alignment with daly on today. his family must have gotten the better of him on this one.

Suz

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:02:12 -0800

Thirded-leaving them closed for another six years is certainly not doing any good.

bluecanary

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:48:40 -0800

I agree with the above comment. This city supports plenty that city kids (or anyone else) have no use for. I am all for the horse stables, and voted accordingly. You don't have to be rich to appreciate the stables and the horses.

brokenlogin

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:37:16 -0800

It's a part of the park, and its legacy, so I support it. City kids have no DIRECT use for Victorian conservatories, Dutch windmills, non-native bison, or Japanese tea gardens, yet somehow we manage to wring educational use out of them, you know? I think kids on field trips would welcome the chance to see the horses, were the stables (and the polo field bleachers) not a dangerous bum-haunted dump.