He proposed to raise $25,000 to lift the house intact up to Riverside Drive and move it onto city parkland.
"What they did here, with the city parklands, that was true artistry."
However, the majority of the island is city parkland.
About 1,800 acres of this is city parkland, with other land-use ordinances protecting the rest.
The society owns and operates the aquarium, which is on city parkland.
School property borders on city parkland designated to be converted to recreational use.
And a scraggly urban woodland led 40 feet downhill in a sharp drop to city parkland.
The 1,600 acres of city parkland are more than ample for picnicking and Frisbee throwing.
By one common measure, the city has only 1.2 acres of city parkland for every 1,000 residents.
Over time the common has become less like a typical British common and more like an area of city parkland.
