What a disgrace! Former Mayor Coleman started this disaster when he changed his mind and decided he would break the Donation Agreement with the Pedro family (“Did city break its park promise?,” March 18). Then he got four members of the City Council to back him up.

When Melvin Carter was running for office, he was in strong favor of a full-city-block Pedro Park. But after his election, Carter was pressured and turned 180 degrees; now he betrays his original position and wants to sell the annex to the Ackerberg Group, forever killing the full-city-block park.

Everything about this is wrong, dishonest, unethical, immoral, deceitful and stupid!

If the city continues on its current path, the Ackerberg Group will buy the police annex building, turn it into office space employing up to 200 people and support a token-sized park for 20 years. Four-thousand neighborhood residents will be confined to a tiny park with no possibility for future expansion.

If the “Friends of Pedro Park Expansion” prevail and get the promised full-city-block park according to the Donation Agreement, the park will have the effect of greatly increasing property values and attracting future businesses. But most importantly, the expanded park will be there for thousands upon thousands of people to enjoy forever.

Do the right thing! Reverse the 4-3 council (Housing and Redevelopment Authority) vote. Honor the Donation Agreement. Return honor, ethics and integrity to St. Paul city government.

Marilyn Pitera, Woodbury

The writer is the last surviving member of the Pedro-family donors to the park.