Why do West Norwalk Nimbies oppose a golf driving range? For the record, Oak Hills totally needs a golf driving range so I don’t have to drive out of town in order to tune up my game. Anywhere else is fine too, but driving ranges and golf courses usually work better clustered together. Oak Hills operates as a municipal owned golf course. Thus, to have a municipal owned driving range would only increase revenue to the city. I guess Bill Krummel sees nothing wrong with demanding city money to prevent yards from getting flooded in West Norwalk, but opposes any means to raise revenue without taxing homeowners out of Norwalk.
Norwalk: Golf Driving Range
by turfgrrl
February 8th, 2008 · 15 Comments
Tags: Norwalk
15 Responses so far ↓ “Norwalk: Golf Driving Range”
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Put it in your back yard we don’t need anymore traffic so you can tune up your game. I am a golfer as well and I don’t think a driving range at oak hills is needed. I will be writing a letter to the West Norwalk assn and to Mr.Krummel to be the watch dogs for this. The off beat streets are no longer off beat they are a cut through to every where and any where. Just say no to the driving range I will. Thanks for the heads up so we can start fighting this now.
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NIMBY’s of West Norwalk - you rallied against condo’s and offices on Connecticut avenue(and the Repubs changed the Master Plan) and you got box stores and more traffic than you could ever have dreamed of. It is obvious you don’t care about what is good for the city as a whole.
Be careful what you wish for…what is “good” for you may mean disaster for all.
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I dont live in west norwalk and I dont want a driving range either and faught against it before and will do so again.
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Seriously, how much traffic will a golf driving range generate? A dozen more cars an hour? Distributed around a wide network of streets? Not the end of the world. The hundreds of golfers in this town deserve it.
Oak Hills is under-utilized. The neighbors want the park to themselves, and say screw everybody else in Norwalk. Same old selfish nimby story. -
the golf course should not be subsuduzed by non-paying taxpayers. if a driving range helps add revenue, lets do it and stop stalling a needed project.
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Smells like a Bondi is involved somewhere in this…
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As long as there are no house parties with a driving range I’m all for it.
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# 4 you answered your own question hundreds golfers hundreds of car not 12.
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#8, Yes indeed, a widely scattered dozen more cars an hour, if that. Hardly noticable, and no impact on the neighborhood. Your argument assumes every golfer will show up at the same moment on the same day.
You must also assume a week’s worth of customers of a restaurant show up at 5:22 on a Tuesday.
You need to make a better argument than that!
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I’m glad this site they want is not in the same area they wanted to put a fire station. I’m sure the fire dept would of been asked about this.
Right?
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We were promised a driving range years ago. What happened?
A FEW LOUDMOUTHS decided they didn’t want it and poof it was gone!
Golfers UNITE!
DRIVING RANGE NOW! -
If golfers in this area want a driving range so badly, let them have it. But not at the expense of the rest of us who don’t play.
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It will pay for itself, and generate much-needed revenue to help pay for maintenance of the park.
AND IT KEEPS TAXES DOWN.
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Now that gas prices are so high, we need this more than ever. Help save the environment! Let’s get a driving range in Norwalk!
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#13
“It will pay for itself, and generate much-needed revenue to help pay for maintenance of the park.
AND IT KEEPS TAXES DOWN.”I notice how the golf course has lowered my house taxes AGAIN THIS YEAR………………
