Garden plot carping getting tiresome

It is getting tiresome to listen to the continuing carping of Naperville's garden plots supporters about the "unfairness" of the park district's reasonable compromise plan for relocating some of the plots farther south. They say the land is to be used for "all the residents." Seems to me that use by about only 600 residents, many of them the same year after year, isn't "all the residents" more like an exclusive little club - once you're in, you're in. How long do people get to keep plots? How long do they? Their complaints sound like a typical entitlement or ownership mentality: It's mine now.

Ball and practice fields will be used by many more people that the garden plots being moved, and the groups using them will change every year, unlike the plots. And the number of plots isn't decreasing; no one is losing their opportunity (at public expense, remember) to have a plot, just a different location. So the real complaint is clear: I don't want to move; I don't want to change. We all have to make adjustments; it's a fair plan and I hope the city council doesn't start second-guessing a lot of hard work and micromanaging it, but approve it and get on.

Kent Schielke

Naperville