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Residents raise safety, seating and cost concerns over new Rancho Laguna Park tables

5793703 · August 28, 2025
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Two residents urged the Moraga Town Council to review recently delivered picnic tables and benches at Rancho Laguna Park, citing sharp metal edges, a large purchase price they said was about $353,000, and a reduction in seating capacity if the replacements stay as delivered.

Two residents told the Moraga Town Council Aug. 27 that replacement picnic tables and benches staged at Rancho Laguna Park appear unsafe, out of scale with the site and expensive, and asked the town to re-evaluate the procurement.

“I honestly did not believe him when he said that because they look like they're something from Mars,” resident Lisa Colton said after describing how a local regular identified the new fixtures as the park’s replacements. Colton said the cluster of heavy, oddly shaped pieces had exposed metal at…

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