I was sad to read about the city not listening to the taxpayers and moving forward with removing 3400 Pacific Ave. from the tax rolls and use as a playground. It's bad enough elected officials hire family members and overstaff all departments but it's worse when the city has a revenue shortfall problem and removes taxpaying properties from the tax rolls. Hopefully, the next elected officials will sell off the land and redo all the bad business practices of running a multi-million dollar budget.