Park closures: The lemons for lemonade
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SF Chronicle: When the Governator threatened to close 80 percent of all state parks as a way to close the collapsing state budget, he may have been surprised at the public outcry. Pro-parks groups may have been a little surprised, too, but they didn't sit around for long catching flies. They've been quietly collecting money and conducting polling in advance of a 2010 ballot measure that would increase vehicle license fees and use the additional money to fund the parks system. If passed, the measure would double the parks budget. Though similar proposals last year and this summer were defeated, the groups behind the ballot measure say it's polling at 60 percent. And voters haven't even faced locked gates at the 100 or so parks lawmakers ultimately agreed to close after Labor Day. The state has yet to release a list of the parks to be closed.
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