The
City of Santee today (April 16) permanently
closed a playground at Santee Mini-Park on
Santee School District property that is now for sale.
Volunteers
from Eastside Church of Anaheim disassembled the playground
structure Saturday on behalf of Kids Around the World. The nonprofit group will refurbish
the playground and take it to Mexico, where it will be reinstalled.
The city has determined it is not
cost-effective to salvage the 15-year-old play structure and rebuild it at another site
locally.
The
park site at 10455 Mission Gorge Road includes a portable classroom used for
recreation classes that will also be removed. The city will continue to
maintain the quarter-acre park, which includes a soccer and multipurpose
playing field, until the property is sold.
The
city will more than offset the loss of the mini-park this year. A new
neighborhood park on Via de Cristina near Fanita Drive is scheduled to begin
construction this summer, while a new playground will be erected by volunteers
on May 21 at Town Center Community Park West.
