To the editor: Along with your editorial saying that it’s time to think about turning publicly owned golf programs into housing, you printed a photograph exhibiting Balboa Golf Course in Van Nuys.
This course just isn't a candidate to transform into housing. Neither is the Woodley Lakes, Encino or Hansen Dam municipal golf programs, all of that are managed by town of Los Angeles Division of Recreation and Parks. Particular to those 4 municipal golf programs, they're all situated on land owned by the federal authorities, managed by the Military Corps of Engineers, inside dam basins.
Put aside the truth that the Military Corps has a 50-year contract with town of Los Angeles to offer leisure recreation providers within the Sepulveda and Hansen Dam basins, every basin has quite a lot of flood zone ranges that might prohibit everlasting residential housing anyway.
So, inserting an image of a golfer enjoying golf at one in every of these programs, implying that there's a chance of housing at these places, is disingenuous. Somebody didn’t do their homework.
Charles Singer, North Hills
The author is a retired superintendent of Recreation and Parks Operations for town of Los Angeles.
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To the editor: Whereas your editorial rightly factors out that municipal golf programs present an affordable value level for golfers, it’s estimated that solely 8% of Individuals really golf whereas 48% of Individuals wrestle with housing prices.
Together with how a lot water is used to keep up programs in a state continually challenged by drought, how can anybody past those that really play golf oppose Meeting Invoice 1910, which might make it earlier to transform municipal programs into housing?
Christopher Dye, San Diego
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To the editor: Watch out what “dialog” you recommend opening. A dialog about creating parkland golf programs received’t cease there.
The 200 California golf programs that AB 1910 impacts wouldn’t take up a fourth of the 155,000 acres we’ve put aside within the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. Creating a few of that acreage would definitely mitigate a lot of our housing scarcity.
It’s a silly concept, however so is creating publicly owned golf programs.
Betty Brix, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Youthful adults, who regard golfing as costly and gradual, are disinclined to take up the game. Already, the variety of U.S. golf programs has declined about 11% over the past decade.
We Californians ought to be asking ourselves whether or not the typical 150-acre golf course, with its thirst for scarce water, can be higher used for brand spanking new housing items that would shelter 1000's of residents in prime city places the place jobs are created.
New legal guidelines shouldn't be restricted to public programs. Eminent area can be properly used to repurpose non-public programs too.
Richard Stanley, Los Feliz
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