A Golf Course Is Not A Park.

The unspoiled beauty of McLaren Park is under immediate threat of being handed over to a sports club with no community input or environmental review.

An area more than 20 football fields in size now comfortably shared by nature lovers and runners, dog walkers, children, and wildlife, will become an 18-hole disc golf course.

Trees will be removed. Groundcover will soon be trampled to dust by players scrambling here, there, and everywhere for lost discs. Bird nesting areas and animal habitats will be damaged. Eighteen cement pads will be poured into the ground and chain-metal baskets that are the course's "holes" will be installed.

Meandering footpaths will become broad barren moonscapes. Game-related signage and large tree shields will blight land now left to nature.

Pedestrians and other existing users of this unique shared open space will technically still be able to use the area.  But over time, the course will come to be used exclusively by players because pedestrians do not feel safe with discs flying around their heads at speeds over 60 miles per hour. This has already happened at the Golden Gate Park disc golf course.

Please, help us keep the wild wonder of McLaren Park available for all, not just a few gamers. Once the trees are pulled down, once the concrete is poured, it will be too late to. . .

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