
{"id":3197,"date":"2008-08-07T07:51:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2008-08-07T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T15:51:32","slug":"park-prep-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/08\/07\/park-prep-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Park prep continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/park080708.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/park080708.jpg\" alt=\"This year, the only thing anyone can watch from these bleachers is the grass grow. Photo by Kirk Ross.\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Chapel Hill is on the verge of opening up Southern Community Park. Well, part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Crews at what will be the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest park have finished up or are closing in on completeing picnic areas, a dog park, a connection with the Fan Branch Greenway, play areas, a roller hockey rink, basketball courts, outdoor art, restrooms and parking. <\/p>\n<p>Town officials are hoping some parts of the park can be open by late September but have already started to get the word out that it will be another year before teams can use the park\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing fields.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA recent letter to residents living near the park says the three new soccer fields, highly visible to those traveling U.S. 15-501, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be useable until summer of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drought delayed sodding and the fields\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hybrid Bermuda will need another year to get fully established. Work also remains on natural surface trails and a disc golf course. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Staff Reports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill is on the verge of opening up Southern Community Park. Well, part of it. Crews at what will be the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest park have finished up or are closing in on completeing picnic areas, a dog park, a connection with the Fan Branch Greenway, play areas, a roller hockey rink, basketball courts, outdoor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}