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We don’t need that much boat storage <br />Making a call to an outside source or posting pictures of other boathouses <br />to make a case that we aren’t being truthful about why indoor storage is so <br />important for a rowing fleet doesn’t make anyone an expert about OUR <br />fleet. Perhaps if people had called LLRC to ask those questions, they <br />would have gathered the truth. We’ve been inside the boathouses some of <br />you posted about and shared only the part of the story that fit your <br />argument. I could tell you all about how our boats are part of the legacy of <br />our team and of the families who donated and named them. One of our <br />shells came from the Canadian Olympic team and raced in the Beijing <br />Olympics. Some boats were purchased by the founding families of this <br />organization. Shells are named for family members and important people; <br />they have meaning and value in addition to their monetary worth. We hold <br />our breath when there are storms knowing there will be many repairs to <br />make. We deal with theft and damage by people who have no business <br />messing with our equipment. A rower even had to stop some kids who <br />were throwing rocks from the Birch’s parking lot down onto our boats. So <br />when you factor in all the risks and the fact that ordinances prevent us from <br />adding roofs to our storage racks at our current site, you start to <br />understand the real picture. <br />That’s why the lower floor of our building was designed to accommodate all <br />sizes of rowing shells: <br />An 8 is 62 ft <br />A quad is 44 ft <br />A pair is 34 ft <br />A single scull is 27 ft <br />Of course to be cost efficient, we only own and maintain the quantity and <br />types of boats we need for the number of rowers and their physical <br />diversity. The building design was only accommodating that number of <br />boats with no growth expansion. <br /> <br />We were duplicating what the Park Commission already planned to <br />do, so we are falsely stating that LLRC will be providing these public <br />amenities <br />These plans have been shared with some of the current Park Commission <br />members and received a positive response. This demonstrates to us <br />that our goals line up. <br /> <br />No member of the public will be allowed to use our upstairs training <br />room