John: There have been complaints about the lack of parks in our city  Some people favor turning the old airport land into biking and hiking trails, but there may be more productive ways of using that land  Pablo: But the old airport land is ideal for biking and hiking trails
Our citizens have gone too long with an inadequate number of parks; we should not dismiss this proposal for biking and hiking trails without further consideration
maintaining that converting the old airport land into biking and hiking trails would be entirely unproductive use of that land