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I signed and posted to fb but people are lazy.
That new park is massive. Any idea what the overall budget is? I would put a guess around 14 million dollars. That's a ballpark(I know) guess but the plans probably cost more than your entire course. If I was you I would change your petition(if you can) to relocating rather than saving.
You can't even imagine the amount of money fields like that will bring in for tax purposes. Lets say the baseball fields are all full. That's roughly 30 families a field from out out of town. If a big tournament comes, you're talking nearly 300 families having to find a place to stay, food, and drinks.
Sorry if I seem negative but I just don't see how Dg can compete. The first thing I would do is inform the adjacent home owners of the perils of living next to a sports complex. That's the only way to get it stopped. Other than that I would pester the heck out of the city about relocating to a new area.
That is a large scale project that will cost millions of dollars. The traffic it would produce will outweigh any petition you are going to be able to come up with. So unfortunately that course is probably gone.
The angle I would try to take would be to talk about how many people will lose out on an activity that they enjoy, and that while you understand this land is worth more as a baseball field you don't want to lose disc golf. Then see if they would be willing to set aside a small bit of that budget aside to replace that course with a new one. A disc golf course (without tons and tons of tree removal) would probably be like 1-3% of that total budged.
I would scout out city owned land before hand and write up a small budget for building a new course. Honestly a disc golf course is extremely cheap. Also you could then have a chance to build a brand new course.
This is just what I would try. If they already have plans drawn up(which cost a lot more then you think, thousands more) its going to be incredibly hard to keep that course.
Sorry, the disc golf course is done.
Best solution will to have the parks department REPLACE it in another area. They already have the baskets so that is a huge expense they don't have to cover again.
Good luck.