One of our gentle readers sent us an email a couple of days ago, with a link to a local website. The site's article is very well-written, and is entirely germane to most of the discussion we've been entertaining here at Weber County Forum lately:Whether we should sell the last remaining open space on the whole over-developed Wasatch Front benchlands to a so-called "developer" whose only so-far-revealed development credential is marrying the Billionaire Boss's daughter and unavalingly sucking up to the Sinclair Oil executives -- in case you've somehow forgotten, or are a "newbie" here -- is an entirely open question.
This excellent article is too lengthy to post here in full; so we are furnishing a link, for our gentle readers' convenience.
As a former U.S. army troop, your humble blogmeister's attention was immediately drawn to the map. Our initial U.S. Army MOS was artillery survey; and we're still fascinated by good maps, even 30 years after "mustering out." We attribute this odd aberration also, in part, to our junior high-school geometry and trigonometry instructors, BTW, for instilling this jaded interest. When we walk the Ogden city trails, we always take along our Garmin GPS device too, along with our enormous Alaskan Malemute, who ALWAYS knows the quickest and most efficient way to get back to the car (on the trails,) with her evolutionarily-developed and purely biological GPS system. What a pity it is that we still lack the technology to site-map two-year-old Denali's dog/wolf brain.
Rumor has it that one of the more "activist" map-oriented and community-minded WSU professors has produced a "Proposed Golf Course Map," that would include "contour lines," in addition to Mayor Godfrey's totally-lame Mt. Ogden Parkland/Peterson Golf Course "overlay."
We are unabashedly requesting that somebody email us a link to that....
It's OUR opinion in the meantime, however, having examined the map, and being familiar with the entire subject property from the time of our early youth, that the described "more playable" golf course, if ever constructed on the described site -- will require significant quantities of dynamite for its construction.
Update 4/30/06 12:56 a.m. MT: Lo and belold (and as luck would have it,) one of our gentle readers has just emailed us the map we'd been hearing about.
"Yep, I have been working on a map overlaying the "greatly improved" golf course on a topographic base map," says our gentle reader. "I've just uploaded it to the Ogden Sierra Club web site." "I'm no golfer," our reader discloses, "but perhaps you or your gentle readers can comment on the design with more authority."
Be sure to click on the link within the Sierra Club article's text for a graphic representation of the area topography. It compares the site layout slope angle of the new proposed course with the existing one. It's quite an eye-opener, we think.
Well, what about it, gentle readers? Lets hear it from our golfers and map-readers. Does this excellent new map describe a "more playable" golf course than we one we already have right now?
The comment session is open.
