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Parksville declared a park to be a park

Val Pennington covers Parksville Council formally declaring a 1.8-acre Jensen Avenue greenspace to be parkland. No visible changes, no new service levels, no tax implications. Just grass, now with legal posture. Source: City of Parksville, New Parkland for Parksville: https://www.parksville.ca/cms/w

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Parksville declared a park to be a park

Val Pennington files this Oceanside Tonight dispatch from the almost-true newsroom.

Val Pennington covers Parksville Council formally declaring a 1.8-acre Jensen Avenue greenspace to be parkland. No visible changes, no new service levels, no tax implications. Just grass, now with legal posture.

Source: City of Parksville, New Parkland for Parksville: https://www.parksville.ca/cms/wpattachments/wpID135atID12879.pdf

So by my count, the City performed a ribbon cutting for a thing that will not visibly change.

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