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Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Seattle is pretty desperate for housing. 40k new units, especially municipal owned one since this is a city golf course, would be a huge stride forward. Seattle also just passed a ballot measure for city to build low income/mixed income housing directly, so this would line up incredibly well for that.

There are talks to convert this into a beautiful park too, but the city government is not interested.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty sure Seattle has an ordinance making changing a park to something else very challenging to impossible. Technically golf courses are parks, though I'd argue terrible ones, making it a much smaller lift to turn them into better (actual) parks and let the golfers go out of town.