Posted on 11/21/2023 10:02:09 AM PST by algore
Seattle Parks and Recreation is looking to add a children’s play area to a local park.
Normally, there would be no controversy, but it’s a specific park that’s causing the problem.
Denny Blaine Park, located near the Madison Park neighborhood on Lake Washington is one of the only nude beaches in Seattle.
According to City of Seattle spokesperson Christina Hirsch, Seattle is considering putting a small children’s playground on the northwest corner of the park.
The area was identified as needing a play area due to it currently sitting within a neighborhood that doesn’t have a play area or park within a 10-to-15-minute walk.
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“This project supports our department mission to increase children’s access to nature and shorelines and address any deficits within our system of lacking active recreational amenities for youth,” Hirsch told KIRO Newsradio’s James Lynch.
The park conversion, if passed by the city, would cost half a million dollars, funded by a private donation alongside a minimal cost to taxpayers.
Critics of the change believe it’s a move to get rid of nudity in the park. Denny Blaine has been a clothing-optional beach since the 1980s.
“I say allow nudity,” park-goer Sophie Johnson told KIRO Newsradio. “If people feel comfortable being in the nude, I think it should stay.”
Still, there are plenty of local residents who think adding a play area is a slippery slope.
Maybe a different area, a different place for a playground,” another parkgoer, Kevin Huff said.
“I think preserving how people want to express themselves is a really, important thing. I think it’s kind of a spectrum.
There are people who don’t like it and there are people who are totally fine with it, and I think everybody has a right to their own opinion.”
Seattle Parks stated it will gather feedback and provide more information on the plan at its upcoming meeting on the project Dec. 6, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Martin Luther King FAME Community Center.
Joe Biden would love to attend the dedication ceremony. Even if ice cream is not offered, Joe will make time for the event.
With all the illegals drifting into Washington State, it appears the average I.Q. is plummeting downwards.
keep your privates private. town is nuts to allow public nudity in the first place.
Never been to one but my guess is nude beaches are probably filled with ugly old freaks.
The sickness these people have is unfathomable.
There’s an argument to be made for siting nude beaches in remote places, difficult to access.
They need Jesus!
Placing a playground 🛝 near a clothing optional beach? Not cool!
Long ago, my German girlfriend took me to a clothing optional beach, on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Damn, that water was cold! She took great pleasure at my reticence to shed my swimsuit. Then I saw an old man who was 5’8” and 300 pounds. That’s when I said, “eff it.”
I lived in Seattle years ago. There are very very few beach days there, IMHO, so this weirdness seems almost irrelevant. But nude beach with kids is an invite to pedos. So, no.
You beat me to it. Pedo Joe doesn't see anything wrong with it. After all, Hunter turned out OK...
The people you might want to see naked never feel any need to be - they get plenty of attention without going that far. :)
Sounds like a terrific idea. Ughhh.
Since it is Seattle, I am surprised they are not proposing to combine the two and put in a nude children’s playground. They can have transvestite shows for the kiddies too! It will provide one stop shopping for pedophiles.
I've been around illegals most of by life and I can tell you they are orders above the average I.Q. of Western Washington's indigenous population.
If you asked them if a kids park next to a nude beach is a good idea they would say, "Hell no gringo pandejo".
Certainly won’t foster love for the beauty of the human form in the kiddos...it would scare the poor things.
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Good.
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