Last week, after hearing chain saws for 4 days in a row non-stop, | decided to investigate what was
going on. | thought they were clearing some trees that were too close to that very narrow East
Dunstable Road up by the sledding hill. Much to my horror, | saw what looked like clear cutting
through Roby Park’s lovely, forested trails (Erin’s Trail?) nearest to East Dunstable Road. | initially
thought maybe they were just widening the trails. The horror continued as | walked further in and
found orange City of Nashua Street Department trucks with the woodchipper. | began videoing the
destruction. A young man asked me if he could help me, and | asked him why there were cutting the
trees down. He said a Disc Golf Course was being constructed at Roby Park. He told me they were
not cutting viable trees or trees with animals or nests in them. | explained one wouldn't know if there
are any baby animals because they would be INSIDE the trees. We had a courteous discussion, but
| let him know | was not pleased. The worker got on the telephone immediately, | am not sure whom
he called. | then viewed the 8/27/21 Board of Public Works meeting minutes to learn more of this
project. Sadly, | do think this project was kept very low profile because other than Commissioner
Pappas, there was NO opponents at the BPW meeting that day. Incidentally, there is a disc golf
supply store that has opened across from Roby Park. | wonder if that is why Roby Park was selected
as opposed to some other areas Disc Golf committee considered. Incidentally, the City already has a
partial Disc Golf Course at Greeley Park. One of the ladies on the Board of Public Works said how
she thought this was such a great idea and it was free, got people outside in nature, was non-
exclusive and wouldn’t cost the City much money. Hmmm. You know what also is free, non-
exclusive, gets people in nature and doesn’t cost the City a dime? Yup. Leaving the trails alone for
people to use (walk, explore nature, walk their dogs, meditate, and ride bikes) at will. Added benefit
of the latter: it does NOT call for the decimation of forests, destruction of wildlife habitat including
wetland and will not risk major liability and safety concerns that WILL affect taxpayers when they lose
litigation for personal injury. There could not be a worse place for this Disc Golf Course.
Opposition Is Mounting
As will be explained, though | got a late start, | have started to garner opposition for a cause | am
passionate about. | have started a petition but only have a few supporters right now due to lack of
time. Please note that | had 571 signatures to oppose the multilevel proposed apartment building in
the Captains’ Corner area which the builder pulled out of. | will be laser focused going forward. This
letter to all of you is my first step in getting the information out to the public, and not just a special
interest group, in a big way. The link to the petition is here: https://chng.it(mQWa96zJpQ .
Goals
Our goals are to strongly encourage Mayor Donchess to call a special meeting in which the public
can speak at. | understand he is a Disc Golf player. So, unless he wants his constituents to think he is
“partial” to special interest groups such as this, | highly recommend he does so sooner rather than
later. End game: Halt Further Construction of Disc Golf Course at Roby Park.
Description of Roby Park
Roby Park was originally meant to be a small local park that was hardly used. It has grown into quite
a popular spot for kids’ playground area, picnics, baseball, hockey, skating, hiking, sledding and just
getting some fresh air. It is surrounded by I'm told 48 acres of lovely forest and a trail system.
Words can't describe the beauty of the trail system and the park itself. | have included an aerial photo
and | think you can imagine it (well until the City started to decimate it). | have made some markings
on the photo as such:
