{"id":21543,"date":"2014-06-18T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T00:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/let-voters-decide-the-fate-of-par-3-course\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T00:02:46","slug":"let-voters-decide-the-fate-of-par-3-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/let-voters-decide-the-fate-of-par-3-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Let voters decide the fate of Par 3 course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>My neighbors and I are not in agreement with the apparent decision to sell the Kent (Riverbend) par 3 golf property.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>With a city beget of $100 million annually, we don&#8217;t understand why the city would find this necessary. We understand if it is not making money, other alternatives should be considered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Why not turn it into a park or a soccer field for the people of Kent? The parks department is not expected to make money, are they?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We already have an outstanding parks\/recreation infrastructure in this city. Wouldn&#8217;t this blend in well with that? We would even be willing to approve a special assessment to retire the debt on the property.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Why not let the citizens of Kent vote on whether they are willing to approve a special limited life assessment to retire the debt on this property and keep it for other recreational purposes? How often does Kent have a viable opportunity to acquire land like this for open space recreation?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Peter Marks<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbors and I are not in agreement with the apparent decision to sell the Kent (Riverbend) par 3 golf property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21543"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}