Slagel: "count the golf courses as public park space"

Shameless spinning of the numbers.

Tell you what: as soon as the golf courses are open to the public for general recreation (for free) I'll let you count them in the park/resident level of service number.

Check out the graphic on the right. Notice how golf courses reside in the "publically owned, low accessibility" quadrant. Do you really want to publish that number when the consultant told you other cities around us do not? At what point does boosterism veer into intentional misinformation?

It's taken from a document on the National Parks and Recreation Association website; this is the "they" the consultant spoke of.

On a serious note: I will give Bob credit for asking whether or not the old, currently-unsused NPRA guideline included golf greens.