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Huntsville Councillor Bob Stone, speaking in his role as council representative on the board of the Downtown Business Improvement Area (BIA), said that the park will be beautiful once the trees grow.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIn 15 years, it\u2019s going to be beautiful with lots of shade but right now, yes, it is more rock and cement than it is vegetation, but we have to give it a chance to grow,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said comments on Doppler from community members stating that council does not like trees are incorrect. \u201cWe do love the trees. We made sure there were going to be 43 trees on Main Street, and there are and because of the soil cells they\u2019re going to grow big and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone said the budget for Kent Park came in under $350,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who question why money was spent redesigning the park in the first place, Stone had this to say: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a park, it wasn\u2019t a parking lot. It wasn\u2019t really usable for anything, yes there was a big beautiful pine tree there and I hated to see that go, and there were some big trees in the back corner, that I really hated to see go as well, however, it wasn\u2019t functional as a park or as a parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said once vegetation sets in and the trees grow it will be \u201ca beautiful place to be. Buskers can play there. People can go there and play chess,\u201d he said, adding that the BIA is thinking of adding a large chess board to the space and providing other programming at the square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlease give the trees a chance to grow and it\u2019ll be a park you will love, that\u2019s all I can say,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as removing valuable parking spaces, Stone said: \u201cI believe there were five parking spaces and we have added many more than five parking spaces both behind Town Hall on the property that we purchased, around the corner on John Street there are 10 spots there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone said the BIA has a parking committee looking at the issue \u201cso there\u2019s some new things coming forward from the BIA eventually but for now, there is more parking downtown than there was a year ago,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also said council looked at putting a water fountain in the park, a pergola with a fireplace, \u201cand we were trying to design by committee and that rarely goes well, so we pulled back and said \u2018let\u2019s do a small area where activities can happen. We\u2019ll have three different seating areas, lots of other seating on the rocks, and we\u2019ll have trees and plants all around and it will be beautiful, and I believe it will be beautiful if we give the trees time to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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