When they say "Not in my back yard" in Plainfield, they really do mean not in my back yard:
Residents of one of Plainfield's oldest neighborhoods want better streets and other improvements from the town, but they're not so hot on a proposed park.
They say the proposed park carved from open space in several backyards of the Duffy-Gibbs neighborhood would end the isolation they have enjoyed.
What ludicrous overreaching. When they tore down the old Lutheran Hospital in my part of town, they turned the land into a nice walking-space park, which is the right way to do it. Take a whole piece of land. I can imgaine the reaction on Oakdale Drive if the city just came to us and said, "We going to talk half of five or six of your back yards and put in some swings and basketball courts."
