To the editor:

I would like to go on record as one who believes the old Louise Obici Memorial Hospital greens would make a wonderful park area.

Try riding around areas of Suffolk where there are multiple housing units and see how many are already vacant. Try riding through low-income housing areas and see the trash and wasted areas that are vacant.

It isn’t any wonder that people who live in the area across from the road do not want apartments to be built on the former Obici property.

I want to leave this world a better place for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to have a place to go to walk, skate, ride their bicycles and maybe even go fishing.

Even though I am 80 years of age, and I live on a fixed income, I know that I cannot afford more taxes. We are already paying a lot of taxes for a city the size of Suffolk.

Mary Grace Garner-Atkins

Suffolk