re: City Park Championship Golf Course- Somme oppose it

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Okay now your turn to list some negatives.

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Most of your pros are based on money. Money makes the world go 'no doubt, so those are valid pros you listed. I concede that.

My biggest negative is the ratio of land that is available for multiple programs vs. a single program. A golf course is a golf course. It can't be anything else.

City Park is about 1300 acres. The current golf course takes up about 300 acres. The "new" course will take up an additional 300 acres. That's nearly half of the park dedicated to a single program. To me that goes against the philosophy of what a large urban park should be about. These types of parks should be for everyone and include a large variety of overlapping programs throughout.

Look at Central Park. Look at Golden Gate Park. Those are what City Park should be striving to be like. How many golf courses do you see in those parks? None. Why? because the land is too valuable to be dedicated to a single program. New Orleans only has so much land. Why dedicate the little bit of open space it has to a single use?

I'm not against golf. I used the crap out of the City Park driving range, and I agree that the north course is super meh. If golf is really needed, then redesign the north course. I'll even cede some land across Filmore for a couple more holes as the north section is pretty cramped.

The area between Filmore and 610 is an amazing piece of land. We used to go walk through there all the time. Scout Island is not full of Gutter Punks. Couturie Forest is not a hobo shanty town. It is land that has tons of potential and can serve multiple uses for all.