Inwood Forest Golf Course to Become Flood-Detention Pond, Greenspace

• I know I'm a couple of months late to this post, but I live in Inwood Forest, and this was a huge scam.  The original owner sold the course for cheap to a sleazy redevelopment company.  They were saying they were going to turn it all into low-income housing.  Of course, the residents knew exactly what that would do, so we fought to try to have it stopped, so we didn't just convert the whole neighborhood into a murder zone. In the end, the city's brilliant solution is to pay these thieves $9 million, which is a gigantic profit for them.  Probably their plan all along. I imagine our once-beautiful clubhouse will be nicely wrecked by the "community" once it's converted to an expensive community center.  And, Ms. Stardig, we know what the encroaching "community" is like; we don't want open our backyards opened up to them to build a stronger sense of "community."  All of our home values are permanently shot now.  Of course, not a cent of that $9 million will ever compensate the residents for that.  People are still selling in droves, though.  It's all been one sick joke, and it's sad.  It was a beautiful golf course for so long.

• Unless that 9 million keeps your home or business from flooding. Then you would think it's money well spent, I think...

• I understand that Bond money is raised for capital improvement and flood control and doesn't pay teachers. HOWEVER, it is re-paid by our property tax dollars and now the new "fee" for flood control. In a time when the city is siting the need to layoff law enforcement and firefighters, it doesn't seen prudent to purchase land. Additionally, the city has over $40MM of property that it is currently trying to sell, so purchasing additional property to the tune of $9MM just doesn't make fiscal sense. My two cents --

• Bond money raised for capital improvement and flood control doesn't pay teachers. This is not money raised through property taxes for the school district. This is money raised for flood control, and it would be illegal to use it for anything else.

• The hat that is government bonds sold specifically for flood control. This is money that has already been allocated and can not be used for anything else. It is not taxpayer money, which is what is used to run the city government. If you had purchased bonds for capital improvement you would be ripped off if that money was used for any other purchase.

• Walking paths, don't you mean rapist hiding areas in that part of town.

• I'm sure all the laid off teachers in the area are ecstatic about the new 9 million dollar hole in the ground.

• Don't worry. She'll sell it to Wal-Mart pretty soon.

• I thought our city was going broke. What efing hat did we pull this money out of?

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