{"id":9597,"date":"2014-07-09T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/development-of-the-par-3-course-is-a-bad-idea\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:05:37","slug":"development-of-the-par-3-course-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/development-of-the-par-3-course-is-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of the par 3 course is a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I am writing about the ludicrous idea the City Council has about selling the par 3 golf course.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The sale is in violation of its comprehensive ECD plan. The golf course is outside the Economic Development District, where the city is trying to get a downtown density of 15 people per acre. We don&#8217;t need another strip mall and another large apartment complex. They are a dime a dozen. Green open spaces are priceless.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This will not help future development of the downtown area. With the growth that is going on in Kent we will need these areas to help make Kent a livable city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Many of the council members ran on the ticket that they were against more of this type of development.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This property needs to stay in the hands of the Parks Department. This could be turned into play fields or a park, which have disappeared and no longer attract Kent citizens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Dan Ulery<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing about the ludicrous idea the City Council has about selling the par 3 golf course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597"}],"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=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}