#ArtificialTurf #SanFrancisco

"Opposition is heating up in southern San Francisco over a plan to turn an open meadow at Crocker Amazon Playground into part of a youth baseball and softball complex, with critics warning it would reduce shared green space and reshape how the park is used.

Supervisor Chyanne Chen is now pushing for more community input before the $50 million proposal moves forward.

In a social media post this week, Chen said she had the backing of Mayor Daniel Lurie to revisit the project, funded jointly by the San Francisco Giants Community Fund and the city’s Recreation and Parks Department.

'We know that the renovation project will transform Crocker into even more of a citywide asset than it is today, but that can’t come at the expense of the needs of our neighborhood park users,' Chen said in a statement to the Chronicle. 'As currently designed, the renovation plan would convert a shared, multi-generational and multi-ethnic public space into a specialized fenced-in facility serving a specific user group.'"

https://archive.ph/Rh0dx

Artificial turf fields can be deadly for coho salmon: UBC study

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11736931/artificial-turf-fields-deadly-coho-salmon-ubc/

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"Nature lovers unite to save trees and sod fields in S.F. park: ‘This is the last stand’

Keep Crocker Real member Susan Mullaney wraps a yellow ribbon around a tree at Crocker Amazon Playground in San Francisco on Sunday to protest plans to replace natural vegetation with synthetic turf when a section of the park is converted into baseball fields.
 
The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, which is partnering with the San Francisco Giants Community Fund on the $45 million renovation, has promised to replant every tree that has to be removed with two trees, but that doesn’t appease the opposition. Neither does the assurance that the new artificial turf will have infill of cork and sand, not the recycled rubber product that is often used to make the blades perform like natural grass.

Whatever surface is used, unless the fields are planted in natural grass, it will be of no use to the birds and insects that live in the grass field soon to be torn up or in the surrounding trees soon to be sawed down. 

(. . .)

Susan Mullaney gave up her Sunday morning to drive from her home in San Francisco’s Sunset District to the Crocker-Amazon District, just to tie a yellow ribbon ’round an old pine tree.  A neighborhood dog walker stopped to ask what she was doing, and after the ensuing conversation the neighbor suddenly knew about the city plan to remove mature trees and sod fields in favor of synthetic turf at Crocker Amazon Playground. 

'I’m outraged that the city would inflict plastic on this park,' said Mullaney, ignoring the fact that a soccer match was being played on artificial turf on the other side of the promenade where she was standing. 'The yellow ribbon makes it pop and brings attention. People in this neighborhood don’t know that the city plans to cut down 128 trees.'

Mullaney is a member of Keep Crocker Real, which is literally a grassroots organization formed to protest the plan to rip out the grass and install 20 acres of synthetic turf to create five new diamonds. A sixth field will be grass. The trees lining the pedestrian promenade that bisects the complex will have to be removed to create infrastructure and drainage. There will also be new restrooms, a dog play area, picnic tables, batting cages and lighting for the ballfields."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/crocker-amazon-playground-trees-21957504.php

Gallant Sports Builds FIFA-Standard Football Turf at Anini Stadium in Arunachal Pradesh

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https://theasiantalks.com/gallant-sports-builds-fifa-standard-football-turf-at-anini-stadium-in-arunachal-pradesh/

Gallant Sports Builds FIFA-Standard Football Turf at Anini Stadium in Arunachal Pradesh

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https://tycoonworld.in/gallant-sports-builds-fifa-standard-football-turf-at-anini-stadium-in-arunachal-pradesh/

Fresh, green lawn—without the maintenance 🌱
Heavenly Greens is Diamond Certified for Lawns – Artificial Turf.
Company report: https://www.diamondcertified.org/report/heavenly-greens/

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