Votes & Quotes
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Community Votes for Alternative Park Usage #
We conducted outreach at multiple community events where we collected votes with dot stickers on people’s preferred alternative “Jackson” Park usages.
We also conducted an online survey for preferred alternative “Jackson” Park uses. The non-golf results are shown as of Nov 2023.
Community Quotes #
Select quotes from comments in the online survey:
These two light rail stops proximity to such a vast amount of public land have the potential to create a green space that folks want to live nearby (or even within), to facilitate community in a public setting, and encourage other forms of transportation. …
Washington State has 189 disc golf courses, with only ONE in Seattle. … twice a year the Jackson short 9 is converted to a 20 hole disc golf course for a semi-annual tournament. Please consider disc golf!!!
Please make this environmentally sustainable (minimal water required) and nice for bees.
I would like to see a lot of the grass replaced by trees.
Stop trying to sabotage the golf courses!
I have a petition with 20,000 signatures to keep Jackson Park a GOLF COURSE. I am ready to bring together all the golfers once again to fight changing Jackson from a golf course to other uses. …
… There are some of us who have been long time residents with deep pockets that want to see Jackson Park Golf course continue to exist. …
Socialists are the enemy of the people, not golfers.
Seattle needs public golf courses. Jackson serves the north end of the city. Replicate the golf course within 5 miles and I would support building redeveloping the current Jackson park area. …
Note: Nile Shrine, another public golf course, is only 4 miles north of “Jackson” Park. Seattle Golf Club, a private club, lies 3 miles west.