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Safety is bogus issue
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Letter to SaveAudubonPark 09/12/2001
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Safety is a bad excuse for a bad project.
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In answer to Kim Goldberg's letter to the editor on Sunday:
I have lived 100 yards from the Audubon golf course since 1945.
I learned to play golf on Audubon golf course.
I enjoyed walking through Audubon Park and the golf course.
I drove my aged parents many times around the park that is now for cyclists, skaters and joggers only.
In all these years I was never hit by a golfball nor was anyone I know hit by a golfball.
Ms. Goldberg's claim of having to wear a helmet to avoid being hit by golfballs is a bogus
issue used by Mr. Forman and the Audubon Institute in order to circumvent taxpayers' rights.
Make no mistake about it - this is being done with taxpayer money.
To answer Mr. Forman's
question "where were all of these people the last two years?" My wife and I attended a meeting in
May l999 at the Lambeth House to talk about the golf course issue and some drainage issues.
Two
councilmen, Mr. Sapir and Mr. Singleton, were present, as well as Mitch Landrieu.
A Mr. Becker represented the Audubon Institute. Mr. Forman was not present.
The politicians left the meeting before there was discussion of the golf course renovation.
The public group assembled was unanimously against the project and told Mr. Becker so.
He (Mr. Becker) had also had a meeting with the members of the Audubon Golf Club who told
him the same thing.
Shortly after we heard the project had been abandoned.
If you read the newspaper, or listen to the TV news or radio "now you know the REST OF THE STORY".
It seems to us that after a 2 year wait they hoped the public opposition had faded away.
Suffice it to say there was nothing wrong with the 100 year old golf course except that it was
never maintained properly by the Audubon Institute - the same goes for the lagoons surrounding
the golf course.
How about hiring a lawyer to file an injunction to stop this entire golf
course project? I would contribute to legal fees, as I believe many others
would!!
It's a BAD project !
Archie Higgins, Jr.
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