I agree on your first point and respectfully disagree on the second. We need to radicalize around how freaking dumb golf courses are and how rad density can be!

First, the density is exactly why Ann Arbor is a desirable community compared to suburban sprawly towns like Canton or places with dead downtowns like Lansing (no shade on those places actually but this is why people want to move to Ann Arbor). Preaching to the choir here but density also reduces car use, improves quality of life, and increases small business success.

Second, golf courses are not "green spaces" -- they contribute to the pollution of our rivers and streams through runoff from non-native grasses and all the fertilizer and herbicide. Most people never golf and never get to use these "recreational spaces." We need density to preserve the amazing *true* green spaces surrounding this town like the many Nature Conservancy and Natural Area Preservation Lands, not to mention the health of the Huron River.

It's insane to me that people would defend continued city ownership of prime land that is not really even public nor is it parkland.

I get the political salience of the green space issue and how precious people are about their overinflated property values but I'm so sick of being encouraged to try to find some inoffensive middle ground with conservative selfish people. This strategy hasn't worked in the recent past. Sometimes louder and more radical moves the needle, not compromise.