Edit: LCDC Perfect For McEuen Work

When the board of Coeur d’Alene’s urban renewal agency meets this afternoon, a big step in creating McEuen Park should be taken. Lake City Development Corp. has been asked by the City Council to be a major funding arm for improvements to McEuen Field. In one of the most divisive, hotly debated civic issues in recent years, the council recently voted to move ahead with plans to improve the park without inviting citizens to participate in a nonbinding advisory vote. … We respectfully remind city officials, the LCDC board and citizens that the urban renewal agency was created 15 years ago for the specific purpose of generating dollars to renovate McEuen Field. Despite simmering recent sentiments suggesting that LCDC dollars would be an inappropriate investment for the park, local history is replete with evidence that it constitutes the very most appropriate investment for the park/ Mike Patrick , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here. (Kathy Plonka SR file photo: Eleven-year-old Erika Boifeuillet (cq), left, Lauren Trueblood, 11, center and Alex Boifeuillet, 13, battle for the Frisbee at McEuen Field in August 2011)

Question: Do you agree with the Coeur d’Alene Press that improvements to McEuen Field is a perfect place to put LCDC money?