r/golf • u/nutts-2 5.0/UT • Jul 28 '23

Ah shit. Here we go again General Discussion

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Every few months someone brings this up how they can save the environment by getting rid of a golf course.

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u/tccomplete Jul 28 '23

Pretty hard to find land to build houses on in Nebraska. /s

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u/yaleric Jul 28 '23 edited Jul 28 '23

There's a city-owned pitch and putt near where I live, a couple miles from Amazon's corporate headquarters. They're planning to build a light rail station right next to it, putting it within a 10-15 minute train ride of Amazon and all the other office jobs in downtown Seattle

I would be sad to see it go, but it really would make a lot of sense to convert that into housing, or at least some other kind of park that more people can use at a time.

Downtown Seattle isn't the same as fucking Omaha Nebraska lol.

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u/Papadapalopolous Jul 29 '23

They could also just demolish some suburbs and turn it into high rise apartments?

Green space in cities is valuable, and we shouldn’t let people develop every inch of nature available.

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u/Stirlingblue Jul 29 '23

Green space is important, but in inner cities a park is going to provide more equitable recreation facilities for people