Public Commons

• A comparison of how the rules can be written - by people with experience in running our public amenities or by staff people with little or no knowledge of the spaces they wish to regulate. Which kind of rules do we want to see for our public spaces?

Part of A Bird's Eye View: When Lively Parks meet the Rules

Bakers who use park bake ovens drafted a Bake Oven Users' Proposed Policy - based on their experiences over many years, and written in a friendly, straightforward way.

City Council chose, instead, to adopt city staff's proposed Outdoor Ovens in City Parks Policy - very different in form and content.

Which rules would you rather see for your park bake ovens?