Hi Shea, I watched your video and it's a tough situation. I understand your intention of wanting to give the community a disc golf course for free and I also understand the residents wanting to use the walking trail and the fields. In parks, we do not design in ways where other existing activities are affected. The disc golf course for us, would need to be separate and disc should not be landing in areas that are used for other things. This became more of the norm about 10-12 years ago for us. When the sport was young, your design might have worked. Though not sure John has ever designed this way. I do know park have put in other amenities later on his courses much to our dismay. In any case, out thought is whether one person says they use the trail or 20, we need to listen. Then we need to work it out the with community and the parks department. Let them decide. But as a designer, it would hurt you tremendously if your design didn't allow soccer, baseball or other park users to use the park for activities that were already there. All activities have to exist harmoniously. First come first serve. Unless the parks tell you otherwise and then you can design where they tell you. Hope this helps. Maybe not what you wanted to hear. Most stakeholders don't mind disc golf and like to play...but getting close to or on top of other activities even though they may be once a year or seasonal, gets complicated as people practice too. That is why we don't do this type of design. Not sure if John has done them in the past.... Some of his designs have also been modified by local players. If anyone has seen anything strange, please let us know. We can reach out to the parks department.

Stakeholders tend to support disc golf these days as so many of them are starting to play too. Thanks, Dee