What's so bad about moving gardeners?

As an elderly citizen who has gardened all over Naperville for the past 44 years, I cannot imagine just what is so terrible about moving the community gardens plots to a southern location. In my experience, whether planting day lilies at Little Friends, gardening at Naper Settlement or helping my mother in Elgin with her roses, I've had to load up the car with the same tools, baskets, bags, fertilizer, hoses, wheeled vehicles., etc. A few miles or so each way has made no big difference. Our four children grew up in District 203 and were redistricted to quite a few different schools. We did not make a big deal of it nor either did they. They just found extra opportunities to make more friends.

School campus areas should be designed to fit into one contiguous piece of land. Busing students daily would waste time and money. If the district is forced to ask for more tax money due to the need for the safe transportation of athletes, whom does one guess will be fighting passage of the referendum?

Kay Stephens

Naperville