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Also, all that manicured grass is super bad for the environment with the fertilizer and pesticide runoff.  
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So is your lawn, and most of your neighbors' lawns. And all the roads. And all farms, too. Think of all the pesticide and fertilizers used on farmlands. It's not the clubs that's affecting the runoff in the Chesapeake but farms and everyone with a green lawn and a car. Just about everything built is bad for the environment one way or another.

Country clubs and golf clubs are closing down all over the country. Let the market take care of what happens to the DC area clubs. And any club that closes down in the DC area will be redeveloped into expensive housing, which means even more people crowded on the same roads and schools with more runoff into the Chesapeake.

I don't know why people get a twist into their panties over being judgemental about clubs. It's pretty clear it's the concept of country clubs that's the problem, not the taxes. [/quote]

Exactly.  So funny.  Witness the jealous poster who wants to “bleed them dry.”  LOL![/quote]

m'eh, I'm not a member, never will be, and don't care. But I'm fine with bleeding them dry, simply because they're obnoxious and grotesque. In fact, I'd bet if you had this as a ballot referendum, it would get 95% of the vote. And given how almost impossible it is to get 95% of people to agree on *anything*, that would truly be something.

Not many people are going to be sympathetic to a private CC full of rich members that pays wayyyy less taxes per acre than they do on their own tiny middle class house. Very few things will unite virtually everyone, but THIS is one that will.  [/quote]

In your mind, perhaps. In reality, no. Courts would strike it down because you can’t single out private clubs without affecting private schools and private institutions including colleges and religious institutions, and private farmlands and all the so called “farms” that are really just private lands. Good luck. [/quote]

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