McClatchy Square Modesto park's future uncertain City committee favors closing tiny garden

McClatchy Park is a rose-filled oasis in downtown Modesto, but thecity
says the green patch is becoming a nuisance, home to drug deals and
public drunkenness.
City leaders want to try fencing off the park to the public and
beefing up enforcement against quality-of-life offenses such as public
urination.
The City Council's safety and communities committee voted 3-0 at its
Monday meeting to move forward with the plan. Councilmen Dave Lopez,
Garrad Marsh and Joe Muratore sit on the committee. The full council
will review the idea next month.
If approved, the city will fence off the park for six months, then
decide whether to block public access to it permanently. The park
would be available to rent for private events.
The postcard-size space is on the corner of 15th and I streets,
acrossfrom the McHenry Mansion. The McClatchy Co. and The Modesto Bee
gave the city the park as a gift in 1995.
City officials say the park has become a magnet for homeless people.
Nearby business owners complain that the park's "problem patrons" buy
and sell drugs, use profanity and commit "unsanitary acts," according
to a city report.
Church groups and charities distribute food at the park, but a lack of
bathrooms creates a sanitation problem, said Director of Parks and
Recreation Julie Hannon.
If the park is restricted, the city will work with the groups that
hand out food to find other locations, Hannon said. Fencing off the
park and renting it for private events willmake money for the
cash-strapped city, Hannon said.
Terry Swehla, a certified financial planner at Waypoint Financial
Advisors, works in the building nextto the park. Swehla told city
officials Monday night that the parkhas been a trouble spot for
years."It's not just the trash, it's frankly unsanitary things that
have happened literally on our doorstep," Swehla said.
One option to solve the problem, city officials say, is to have the
McHenry Mansion Foundation take control of the property. Making the
park private property would give police more leeway to intervene
there, Chief Mike Harden said.
The park is a picturesque spot ringed by dozens of rosebushes anda
neatly trimmed hedge.
On the lush lawn Monday night, a group of four men who appeared to be
homeless lounged on a blanket.
Guy Perea, 60, said he visits the park daily to "regroup and smell the
roses." He said he's filed an injunction in Stanislaus County Superior
Court attempting to stop the city from fencing off the park. Perea
said he considers the park safe. He and other people who frequent the
park tell police when they see illegal activity there, Pereasaid.
But Perea said he saw the city's point of view. "They think the people
using it now aren't up to the par of the people who they want to use
the park," Perea said.

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