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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if some of the self-styled class warriors are really doing the bidding of the Big Development lobby.  Imagine how they’d love to see certain clubs economically pressured to sell for development.

I’d rather keep the open space and home for birds and other wildlife.[/quote]

Good point!  Lets force one of these golf courses to go out of business.  Who really wins?  Developers.  The County has no financial resources to buy the properties or to maintain them.  So, who wins?   Great to see class warriors and real estate developers on the same team.[/quote]

Nope. They won't become subdivisions.

They'll be urban parks.

It's inevitable, folks. You can be the hammer, or you can be the nail. Your choice. But the age of country clubs is over. [/quote]

Who is going to pay for these urban parks?  Isn't Rock Creek Park and Norwood Park nearby in inner BCC?  I am pretty sure that these orgs are not going to simply turn the land into urban parks.  Maybe, in a 100 years, they will sell the land to developers.  The real question is why do you care whether they survive or not.   If they are unable to attract sufficient members, they will go out of business  At the moment, they are doing just fine.  The open space land (ie, not buildings or roads) reduces burdens on local schools (inner BCC schools are already overcrowded), local roads, etc.  Get a life.  The entire discussion reminds me of the high school parties to which I was not invited.

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