In the universe of municipal parks, there are many gods. Most of them are landscapers.
“There’s always someone with a dog,” she would say, and this would be after driving past any small corner of the city with huge, old oaks shading picnic tables and playground equipment, blanketed by trimmed lawns made green with recycled gray water.
We started to track how
many parks did not have at least one dog. And there a restroom? And we’re people at least, say, picking up after themselves and their pets? So it began, the Camarillo Parks Project. An exhaustive rating of observable amenities and functions of every park operated by the city of Camarillo.