To the Editor,

If last summer was an indicator, this year will be worse for users of the Warner Park boat landing and the Warner Park beach. One big problem is a private company using the boat landing to rent jet skis and pontoon boats. City officials have been made aware of it. This letter is a reminder.

First of all, the boat launch area can get clogged up because of the business. Second, the trucks and trailers of the business, and their customers, take up a large share of the parking spaces. Third, the business is using public space for their private profit. Fourth, jet skis are fun when you are driving them; if you are listening to them all day, every day, not so much.

A run or walk in a city park for a good cause or an event in the public interest is a good thing. A private business whose only goal is to make a profit, whether it is renting boats, having a glow-stick glitter race, or a bouncy house obstacle course, using public land that is for public use is not proper and should not be allowed.

Tim Nelson