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Golf Fix-Up will eat Public Space
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Times Picayune July 26
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Despite the fact that I both read the paper and visit Audubon Park every day, Until I read Angus Lind's column on July 25th, I somehow missed the alarming fact that one of the best-kept secrets of the impending "$6 million revamp" of the Audubon golf course is that it will adversely affect the use of the park by the non-golfing public.
I'm not a golfer and don't care much one way or the other about golf courses.
However, I do care very much about Audubon Park, which is arguably one of the most gracious and historic public spaces in the city.
I am just one of the park's average daily users, just one of the many jogging, skating, bike-riding, dog-walking, stroller-pushing local residents, and not one of the "tourists and conventioneers" who stand to benefit from this project.
I am also one of the many local residents who regularly use Hurst Walk, the gravel path across the golf course that will be eliminated, and one of the many who enjoys spending time in the quiet and peaceful grove of live oaks inside the lagoon that is apparently slated to become the site of the new clubhouse.
I am also just one of the many local residents who believes that the Aududon Institute increasingly confuses "making more money" with "benefiting the public", and that its insidious encroachement upon public park space for conversion into quasi-private, money-making uses must be checked.
Debra Howell,
New Orleans
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