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Wow, right out of the song: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot . . . They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum, and charged the people a dollar and a half to see them. Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?

We know what not to do and sleepwalk into it anyway.

Joni Mitchell: https://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw20

Counting Crows: https://youtu.be/tvtJPs8IDgU

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“Fun Forest” in Seattle wasn’t a forest - it was a paved area with some low-budget amusement park rides.

Lots of decent sized parks in Seattle. Would another one be bad? No. Would it automatically be better than whatever they actually built? Also no. Cities are places for people, and anything in a city economically kinda has to serve people. There are tons of forests around Seattle, and they are great. But I don't know if the marginal acre in Seattle needs to be used for a tiny, probably not self-sustaining replica.

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