Just a few weeks after a court denied the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park’s injunction to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway, the group is stepping out again to protest yet another vote.
This time, the coalition is seeking Attorney General Bill Mims’ opinion in what co-founder Bob Fenwick called an illegal action. Fenwick, also founder of savemcintire.com, is contending that the 3-2 vote that granted the ground lease for the YMCA to be built within McIntire Park is illegal.
According to a letter Fenwick and other members of the coalition are sending to Mims, the 3-2 vote City Council took in 2007 violates the constitution of the Commonwealth: to dispose of public land, state constitution requires a “super majority,”—or ¾— something, Fenwick says, the council did not have.
“This is just not right,” he said during a press conference. “Our position is: if the City Council expects its citizens to obey the law, they shouldn’t expect nothing less than their own actions.”
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Bob Fenwick (front left), with other members of the Coalition Rich Collins (from left), Randy Page and Mala Cunningham, object to a decision City Council took about the imminent construction of the YMCA in McIntire Park.
