Clabeaux's acronym stands for: "Not In This Park, It's The Wrong Place."

"I care tremendously about children--children who like to fly kites, who like to play baseball, who like to play in the grass," she said. "The vote was injurious to the entire city. The ones who will take the most heat are the neighbors. A beautiful park will be destroyed."

Clabeaux, Peter Pranys and Marty Goldberg represented the neighbors of Kevin Moran Park on a task force formed by the city council to decide the future of the park. The Kevin Moran Task Force met five times over the course of three months and came up with two nearly identical plans for the park's development, both of which included picnic areas, bocce ball courts and gardens.

However, the plan favored by the neighbors included two half-sized practice soccer fields while the plan favored by sports group representatives and representatives of Saratoga residents at large included a half-sized practice field and a full-sized field.

At the Jan. 4 meeting of the city council, Saratoga's soccer moms and dads showed up in force, speaking before the city council about the need for more regulation soccer fields in the city. Parent after parent spoke out about having to drive their children to other cities for soccer games and practices.

The neighbors of the park were also present in large numbers at the meeting, speaking out against a regulation-sized field, citing traffic safety and the degradation of the park's unique character as reasons for their opposition.

The council voted 4-1 in favor of the plan with a regulation-sized field. Mayor Norman Kline was the lone vote for the plan favored by the neighbors.

"I think the vote went as everyone on the task force expected," Pranys said. "It was fait accompli."

"Nobody dislikes the kids," he said. "We are for organized soccer. The park is just not the right place. The street can't accommodate it."

"The neighborhood is not going to take this lying down," Pranys continued. "We are going to fight this. We've retained legal counsel. We're doing our diligence to see if procedures are being followed. We don't know where we're going with that, or if we have a leg to stand on, but we do know we're being snowed."

A design firm has been hired by the city to come up with a plan for the park that includes a full-sized field. The Kevin Moran Park Task Force will meet two more times to review the plan as it is developed. Pranys, Clabeaux and Goldberg said they would continue to represent park neighbors at the meetings.

"We will continue to represent our neighborhood, and all of Saratoga, the best we can," Clabeaux said.

"We will participate in the next meetings," Pranys said. "But essentially they're going to do what they're going to do. I can see the only input we can give is to try to mitigate as much negative impact as we can."

Public works director John Cherbone predicted that ground could be broken at the park by November. Kline said work at the park could be completed by the summer of 2007.

Clabeaux said that when a full-sized field is completed, people from as far away as Redwood City would be coming to her neighborhood to play soccer, causing traffic congestion and ruining the park's quiet ambience.

"I have just begun to fight," Clabeaux said. "I want to blow this thing sky high."