Why did the Review bury the Oak Avenue Park story?

I’ve run a three stories about the Half Moon Bay City Council’s purchase of land between Oak Avenue and Pilarcitos Creek to build a park that would complement the trail they’re now building and to add some open space to a neighborhood that really needs it. The Review has not simply ignored the story, they buried it.

Not only is this a feel-good story, but the purchase was passed unanimously by a city council that was severely divided by the Nurserymen’s Exchange purchase earlier in the evening. Everyone agreed that this was a great plan for a neighborhood that desperately needs a park.

The Review reported this by dropping it in "In other matters", a tedious compendium of city council agenda items on the next-to-the-last page of Section A. Here’s what they wrote:

Adopted a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a purchase agreement and record title for the purchase of 056-141-950; 056-141-960; 056-141-970.

That’s it: no description of the parcels or their location, or any indication the city is building a new park. Not even a quote from Marina Fraser, who testified at the meeting that this was a priority ever since she was on the Parks and Recreation Commission and how it will provide a safe place for the kids of the neighborhood, many of whom are now playing in the street.

Perhaps Oak Avenue doesn’t matter to the Review.