Wayspot Removal Appeal: Compassionate Friends Memorial Bench

Wayspot Appeals
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  • Wayspot Title: Compassionate Friends Memorial Bench

  • Location (lat/lon):43.608756,-116.203277

  • City: Boise

  • Country: United States of America

  • Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):

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  • Additional Information (if any): I am an employee at the zoo. Currently, the area with this wayspot (and a couple of others, notably “Giant termite mound,” which is also being removed permanently) is closed to the public, behind construction fencing. It is not safe to enter. While this closure is temporary, when the area reopens to the public, the bench in question will no longer be there. It has already been removed and destroyed. Even the tree it once sat under has been removed.

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Hi, glad you found your way to the appeals site to escalate this removal request.

Niantic will likely require photos to help support your claim or website articles about the project. No rush, you can gather them as you can. You may also be able to use a grounds manager or other member of the leadership team to reach out using the website below.

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Compassionate Friends is an organization that supports grieving parents who lost a pregnancy or child. It could have been considered a “sensitive location” when it was there. I’ll bet they set something up somewhere else. May be worth mentioning.

4

Thanks for the appeal, @ZooKois. Due to insufficient evidence, we’re unable to remove the Wayspot in question. If you have additional evidence to share like geotagged images or articles, please submit a new appeal with additional information and we’ll take another look.

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I haven’t been able to take photos recently (partly because the area is closed for construction), but you mentioning articles reminds me that the zoo put out a release on our website about the closures and renovations in the area. It doesn’t mention the bench or the Giant Termite mound directly, the “Brand new meerkat habitat” necessitated the removal of the termite mound, and the “two-story education campus with accessible indoor and outdoor classrooms” is being built over the area that used to house the bench and the tree it’s under. As a conservation-oriented organization, we don’t remove trees from the property without very careful consideration, and the fact that that one was removed on day one of the construction crew’s work is significant.

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Hi, @ZooKois! We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.