• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There isn’t any context on where this is, but:

    • there aren’t enough golf courses to really impact housing supply
    • parks and recreational facilities also serve a societal good assuming they’re accessible and serve the community as a whole
    • golf courses aren’t usually located along transit
    • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      1 and 3 are not good reasons not to try something like this. 2 feels like bad faith because this isn’t either of those things, it’s a golf course. Less than a quarter of golf courses in the US are freely open to the public, and a quarter of them are members only. That’s thousands of golf courses that are taking up space/land and water and returning next to nothing of value to the community or the environment, or worse than nothing in many cases.

      Source for numbers: https://mygolfspy.com/news-opinion/study-percentage-of-public-vs-private-courses-in-the-us/