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Originally Posted by esquire
In principle, converting golf courses to public parks to increase accessibility makes sense. But in practice, I wonder if turning them into parks eliminates the possibility of developing them down the road? I think you would get some real pushback if you tried to develop a park that the community loves as compared to a golf course. Considering most if not all municipal golf courses are attached to major parks, I would think you either maintain them as golf courses until the land is redeveloped (whether that's now or later), or you permanently convert them to park space... I'm not sure that there's much in between.
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I think you could designate part of the parks as development reserves and attach conditions to what developers can and cannot do and also warn people way in advance that it will happen in a certain timeline. People don't like surprises
otherwise I'm not totally sure what you could do.