[Tim]

I wanted to take a look at the southern part of the park last weekend, but didn't get a chance to. If it's more level, I think that would be much more amenable to a course being installed. The area Chuck and I scoped out was over by the water tanks and it was a difficult terrain to put a course on. That big hill you drive up to get to Lakewood? That's the hillside that makes up the NE-E part of the park. There is a lot of space there, for sure, but it'd be some tough installation. There also might be environmental concerns raised, if not now, then in the future.

There are a few other concerns I see with the park. One is that it's pretty heavily utilized already, as Cold Steel pointed out from the last meeting there. Another is that there's seriously limited parking there from what we saw. And also, as Chuck alluded to, the woods there are DENSE. There would need to be some significant chopping and sawing, from what I saw, in order to make feasibly fairways.

That's not to say that this park doesn't have potential. It could be a very cool woods course if we were able to work with it. Those familiar with Hamlin Park in Shoreline, this could be similar to that. Unlike Hamlin though, the woods here aren't as highly trafficked, so there's still significant understory (the lack of understory at Hamlin was one of the main reasons a course didn't happen there).