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What good is a new course?
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Times Picayune August 4th
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I read with surprise and dismay Angus Lind's article July 25 describing the Audubon Institute's plans to remodel Audubon Park's golf course.
How does the plan to create a "high-quality executive golf course" benefit even the golfers among us, given that it will be partly paid for by raising course fees three-fold?
As for the non-golfers -- by what authority does the institute plan to close the footpath that cuts across the course and build a brand spanking-new clubhouse for these "high-quality executives" in what is currently a public open space?
I am unconvinced that the plan to "plant a variety of new species of trees" will be adequate compensation for the bulldozing of the old ones.
The park, one of New Orleans' loveliest spaces, does not belong to the Audubon Institute. It is a public park and as such any alterations to it should be for the public's benefit and subject to public scrutiny.
Anyone who follows local affairs at all knows that the Audubon Institute has a record of failing to consider the interests of the local public whilst pursuing enhanced profits for itself by expanding its operations over a wider and wider area of public property.
It is time for this to stop.
Chris Webb-Bourne
New Orleans
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