DFO: McEuen Field Future Safe

Here’s what I don’t understand re: the claim by Marybill re: a two-story parking garage that would block Dennis Wheeler’s view of Tubbs Hill from across the street at Coeur d’Alene Mines. It would be political suicide. The town simply wouldn’t put up with such a structure blocking the viewscape of McEuen Field and Tubbs Hill. There is talk about putting some of the parking underground, to extend the green space. Now, I admit that I get nervous when city boosters eye McEuen Field. Because some downtowner have lusted after that space for decades. However, I know that Bloem, Edinger, Goodlander, and others on the council have been around long enough to remember how attempts to invade McEuen space with unpopular ideas (even Duane Hagadone’s memorial garden) have blown up. One council was run out of office in the 1950s when it considered allowing a supermarket complex on the property. The public property needs to be realigned. Mebbe some fences pulled down and parking moved. But McEuen Field supporters can rest assured that Bloem & Co. are too savvy to allow something to happen that would hand 3 council seats to the anti-progress activists who have sought them for two terms now/ DFO .