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[Austin55]

In the recent Parks and Rec 

 

 

Recommendation for the Future Operation of Sycamore Creek Golf Course Including the Closure and Re-Purposing for Use as a Community Park

 

[Volare]

link?

[Austin55]

Can be downloaded at

http://fortworthtexas.gov/boards/

[Volare]

That would be a shame. It's easily the most affordable and least crowded of the public Fort Worth courses.

[txbornviking]

Can they at least get the Z-Boaz transition to a park complete before abandoning yet another golf course to become a greenfield site?

Yes, Z-Bonez has been completed as well as a small adjacent children's park but it seems the larger plans for the space have gone nowhere (obviously from a lack of money).

 

As I understand it the golf courses are self-funding as a whole with courses like Pecan Valley to a degree subsiding places like Sycamore Creek, but at least as it the golf course generates some revenues. If the course is shut down it's zero revenue and all expense as maintenance (of a different degree) is still required.

But, hey, what do I know?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[AndyN]

With it's proximity to the homeless shelters, I imagine it will transform into a campground.

[renamerusk]

With it's proximity to the homeless shelters, I imagine it will transform into a campground.

 

I wouldn't strike that note about "the homeless"; just my personal feelings.

[rriojas71]

With it's proximity to the homeless shelters, I imagine it will transform into a campground.

Actually there is already a campground just north of the Golf Course in an open field east of Hwy 287

[Volare]

I wonder how that meeting went. It isn't available online.

[Volare]

I played there today. Asked the staff about it- they have no idea what I'm asking about.

[John T Roberts]

The Park & Recreation Advisory Board Meeting is today at 4:00 PM at the Moncrief Garden Center, located at the Botanic Gardens.  Sycamore Golf Course is on the agenda that Austin previously posted.

[Volare]

Sounds like it's all over but the crying:

 

http://fortworthtexa...ore-Creek-Golf/

[AndyN]

The 1987 deed to the city from TRWD for a chunk of the land that was included in the golf course had a reversionary clause that if it ceased to be used as a golf course, the land would revert to the TRWD. A revision of the deed was on the agenda for yesterday's council meeting that would modify the agreement and provide a flowage easement to TRWD.

 

I notice in the 2020 master plan for the park, the old interurban bridge is to be improved. Service to Cleburne began in 1912 and as a historic structure, I hope the improvements are respectful of its origins/history.

[txbornviking]

The 1987 deed to the city from TRWD for a chunk of the land that was included in the golf course had a reversionary clause that if it ceased to be used as a golf course, the land would revert to the TRWD. A revision of the deed was on the agenda for yesterday's council meeting that would modify the agreement and provide a flowage easement to TRWD.

 

I notice in the 2020 master plan for the park, the old interurban bridge is to be improved. Service to Cleburne began in 1912 and as a historic structure, I hope the improvements are respectful of its origins/history.

 

I know I'm mostly alone in this but it's unconscionable how slow to conversion to parks process has been for Sycamore Creek and Z Boaz since they were closed. Just absolutely maddening.

similarly maddening to the project on West 7th (a project that was supposed to be done in feb, being pushed to june, being pushed to sept, and now being pushed to oct)

[JBB]

It drives me crazy when someone talks about the city adding parks or converting something to city park space.  The city has plenty of under-utilized and under-maintained park space.

[Dylan]

Fort Worth parks are under-utilized because they lack amenities and things to do.

[rriojas71]

^^ spot on

[JBB]

If anyone with small children has ever visited Trinity Park's "handicapable" Dream Park playground or just ridden by on your bike, it is wildly popular, almost dangerously overcrowded due to its popularity.

The Dream Park is unique with its private backing. Sad as it is to point out, it never would have happened on the city's dime without motivated fund raisers.

[Volare]

Fort Worth parks are under-utilized because they lack amenities and things to do.

 

They do have plenty of prohibitions on things you aren't allowed to do.