East Side Disc Club.

To: Urbana Park District

901 N. Broadway

Urbana, Illinois, 61801

It has been a subject of concern for us at the East Side Disc Club that there is no 18-hole course in the Champaign-Urbana area. It is in fact a point of shame to be so severely outclassed by the neighboring communities of Springfield and Peoria, when our community is clearly, in other respects, a better place to live. When the course at Orchard Downs was destroyed to make way for the Japan house and rock garden, frankly, we were crushed. The course at Lohman park is serviceable, and even has a couple of interesting holes, but the map of the proposed facility at Crystal Lake Park got us very excited indeed. An 18-hole course featuring a large hill and multiple water hazards, even ducks, would be a dream come true. Literally, because I have actually dreamt about it.

We at the East Side Disc Club want that course: we are ready to break ground! However, when we contacted the Park District to offer our volunteer support, we were dismayed to learn that the dream might not come true. While we applaud the Park District for taking the needs of non-disc-golfers into account, we can't help but feel that the needs of the local disc golf community are not receiving their fair share of consideration. The course, according to the map, follows the water line quite closely and does not, we believe, pose much of an inconvenience for other park goers. Disc golfers are by nature courteous: most disc golf courses (unlike our community's many ball golf courses!) are integrated into public spaces that have other uses and no professionally-minded disc golfer has any illusion of supremacy. In this regard, the idea that a disc golf course would interfere with other park uses is, in our opinion, untrue, and even a trifle insulting to those of us who take this fine pastime seriously.

We at the East Side Disc Club write this letter to offer our full enthusiasm and support for the proposed course at Crystal Lake Park. Should it come about, and we hope it will, we are also prepared to offer our assistance in the form of volunteer labor and raising general community support. Disc golf is less a sport than an art - the art of flight - and we believe that the proposed Crystal Lake course would raise the cultural level of our community.

At your service,

The East Side Disc Club

Box 515, Urbana, IL, 61803

William Gillespie, CDO

Ben Blanchard, Secretary

Dirk Stratton, Treasurer

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